PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
In a fixing apparatus, a width of a first portion of a first heat generating resistor is narrower than a width of a second portion, at least a portion of an outline of the first portion on the near side with respect to a power shut-off member is provided at a position closer to the power shut-off member than an outline of the second portion on the near side with respect to the power shut-off member, and at least a portion of an outline of the first portion on the far side with respect to the power shut-off member is provided at a position closer to the power shut-off member than an outline of the second portion on the far side with respect to the power shut-off member.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing apparatus comprising:\n a fixing member; a heater that generates heat by electric power supplied thereto, the heater including a substrate, and a first heat generating resistor and a second heat generating resistor provided on the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate; and a power shut-off member that is operated by heat of the heater to shut off supply of the electric power to the heater, the power shut-off member being in contact with the heater at a position between the first heat generating resistor and the second heat generating resistor in a lateral direction of the heater, wherein an image formed on a recording material is fixed to the recording material with the heat of the heater with the fixing member interposed therebetween, wherein a width of a first portion in the lateral direction, the first portion being a portion of the first heat generating resistor that overlaps a contact area between the power shut-off member and the heater in the longitudinal direction, is narrower than a width of a second portion that is a portion of the first heat generating resistor different from the first portion in the longitudinal direction, wherein in the lateral direction, at least a portion of an outline of the first portion on a near side with respect to the power shut-off member is provided at a position closer to the power shut-off member than an outline of the second portion on a near side with respect to the power shut-off member, and wherein in the lateral direction, at least a portion of an outline of the first portion on a far side with respect to the power shut-off member is provided at a position closer to the power shut-off member than an outline of the second portion on a far side with respect to the power shut-off member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14430034', '15551772', '15787227', '13384405', '15041969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8029406129391115
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4669475841427339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7693413100594737
- Mean Citation Score: 195.897106
- Max Citation Score: 229.04132
- Similarity Product: 196.960016236012

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

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