PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938874
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
A belt unit for forming a heating nip portion configured to heat a toner image in cooperation with a rotary member facing the belt unit, includes an endless belt, an nip forming member provided along a longitudinal direction of the endless belt on an inner side of the endless belt and configured to contact to an inner surface of the endless belt for forming the heating nip portion, a regulation member configured to regulate a position of the endless belt in the longitudinal direction, and a snap-fit unit formed of the nip forming member and the regulation member and configured to regulate the regulation member from being disengaged from the nip forming member.

Claim (Index 10):
The image heating apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein regulation of the snap-fit unit is releasable when the nip forming member is deformed against an elasticity of the nip forming member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62222
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13855314', '13652785', '14288712', '13899864', '14191720']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8116699421494865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127528013664919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.781778228071187
- Mean Citation Score: 264.37926600000003
- Max Citation Score: 276.93503
- Similarity Product: 168.06656463969532

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

Dataset: test