PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16119398
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device has a fixing member, a pressing member, a pressing mechanism, a pressure changing mechanism, and a moving mechanism. The fixing member has a fixing belt. The pressing member forms a fixing nip portion by making contact with the fixing member. The pressing mechanism presses the pressing member against the fixing member to apply a nip pressure to the fixing nip portion. The pressure changing mechanism changes the nip pressure. The moving mechanism moves the fixing member in a sheet width direction which is perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction. The pressing mechanism has a holding member rotatably holding the pressing member and held swingably in such directions as to approach and recede from the fixing member. The moving mechanism moves the fixing member in the sheet width direction in coordination with the nip pressure being applied or removed by the pressure changing mechanism.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the moving mechanism includes:\n a moving member which is provided at one end of the fixing member and which moves in the recording medium width direction together with the fixing member; \n an eccentric cam having an outer circumferential face making contact with the moving member, the eccentric cam being so formed that a distance from a rotation center to the outer circumferential face varies in a circumferential direction, the eccentric cam being rotatable in coordination with swinging of the holding member; and \n a second biasing member biasing the moving member toward to the eccentric cam, \n as the eccentric cam rotates, the moving member and the fixing member move in the recording medium width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98113
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16052095', '15288838', '14592214', '13608771', '13036562']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8206785797957448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5195601457697546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7905667363931457
- Mean Citation Score: 296.3386460000001
- Max Citation Score: 329.30286
- Similarity Product: 231.29262246673824

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