PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918515
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device comprising a fixing belt, a rotating member arranged to be in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, a nip forming member to press the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt and to rotate together with the fixing belt.

Claim (Index 6):
The fixing device of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a heat source to heat the fixing belt; and a thermal insulation member to cover at least a portion of the nip forming member, to prevent heat generated from the heat source from directly radiating to the nip forming member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97143
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15033791', '14336332', '15177529', '14793949', '13751648']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7755039201491817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017851784092403
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7481320459751875
- Mean Citation Score: 213.253616
- Max Citation Score: 285.86053
- Similarity Product: 221.46044231458484

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

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