PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt; a pressing unit that is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the belt and that rotates the belt; a first unit that is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the belt and that retains the belt in contact with the pressing unit; a second unit provided on the inner peripheral surface of the belt and located downstream of the first unit in a rotation direction of the belt, the second unit applying tension to the belt and including a portion that is in contact with a central portion of the belt in a width direction of the belt and that is farther in a direction toward the outer peripheral surface of the belt than both ends of the belt in the width direction of the belt; and a third unit provided on the inner peripheral surface of the belt and located downstream of the second unit in the rotation direction of the belt, the third unit applying tension to the belt and including a portion that is in contact with the central portion of the belt in the width direction of the belt and that is farther in the direction toward the outer peripheral surface of the belt than both ends of the belt in the width direction of the belt.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; and the fixing device according to  claim 1  to which the recording medium having the image formed thereon by the image forming unit is transported and which fixes the image to the recording medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.75
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15178616', '15668928', '10816912', '12656348', '14274871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8078786546045552
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4951116162384441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7766019507679441
- Mean Citation Score: 215.80457400000003
- Max Citation Score: 228.22601
- Similarity Product: 137.0042810524571

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

Dataset: test