PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fuser may include a rotatable member, a belt, a pressure member, and a sliding member. The belt and rotatable member may form a nip portion. The sliding member may be sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member. The sliding member may include a front surface, which faces the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The front surface may include a plurality of dimples designed to catch lubricant that moves along ridges between the dimples.

Claim (Index 10):
The fuser according to  claim 9 ,\n wherein the second dimple comprises a first vertex which is a closest vertex to the second ridge portion among all vertices of the second dimple, the first vertex being positioned between a first borderline which comprises a first boundary defined between the first dimple and the second ridge portion and a second borderline which includes a second boundary defined between the third dimple and the second ridge portion, and wherein the fourth dimple comprises a plurality of vertices comprising a second vertex which is closer to the second ridge portion than the other vertices of the fourth dimple, the second vertex being positioned between the first borderline and the second borderline.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16137646', '14231030', '15461801', '13045182', '13293794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8001404079330335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5282613362874882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.772952500768479
- Mean Citation Score: 227.866852
- Max Citation Score: 389.0121
- Similarity Product: 280.2588456207096

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test