PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928156
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a flexible rotating fixing belt, a pressing member, a heating part, a guide member and a contact force changing part. The pressing member forms a pressing area with the fixing belt. The heating part heats the fixing belt from an outside of the fixing belt. The guide member comes into contact with an inner circumferential face of the fixing belt to support the fixing belt so as to face the heating part. The contact force changing part moves the guide member in directions close to or away from the fixing belt to change a contact force between the guide member and the fixing belt depending on a pressure of the pressing area.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing device comprising:\n a flexible rotating fixing belt; a pressing member which forms a pressing area with the fixing belt; a heating part heating the fixing belt from an outside of the fixing belt; a guide member which comes into contact with an inner circumferential face of the fixing belt to support the fixing belt so as to face the heating part; and a contact force changing part which moves the guide member in directions close to or away from the fixing belt to change a contact force between the guide member and the fixing belt depending on a pressure of the pressing area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53061
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15435779', '14925474', '10891887', '15131486', '15132276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8083896024568583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744714123310549
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7749977834442779
- Mean Citation Score: 215.574496
- Max Citation Score: 238.0081
- Similarity Product: 194.9423109401704

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test