PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film; a contact member, a nip forming member, and a regulating member provided at a longitudinal end portion of the film and including an inner surface regulating surface. As viewed in a longitudinal direction of the film, with respect to a rotational direction of the film, the inner surface regulating surface includes a first region remotest from the nip and a second region closer to the nip than the first region is. The inner surface regulating surface is inclined so as to be spaced from the inner surface of the film toward a longitudinal center of the film with respect to a longitudinal direction of the film, and a degree of inclination of the inner surface regulating surface is larger in the first region than in the second region.

Claim (Index 6):
A fixing device comprising:\n a cylindrical film; a contact member contacting an inner surface of said film; a nip forming member configured to form a nip in cooperation with said contact member through said film, wherein in the nip, a recording material on which an image is formed is heated while being fed, and the image is fixed on the recording material; and a regulating member provided at a longitudinal end portion of said film and including an inner surface regulating surface which opposes the inner surface of said film and which is configured to regulate a position of the inner surface of said film, wherein as viewed in a longitudinal direction of said film, with respect to a rotational direction of said film, said inner surface regulating surface includes a first region remotest from the nip and a second region closer to the nip than the first region is, and wherein the first region of said inner surface regulating surface is inclined so as to be spaced from the inner surface of said film toward a longitudinal center of said film with respect to the longitudinal direction of said film, and in the second region of said inner surface regulating surface, a distance from the inner surface of said film is the same over the longitudinal direction of said film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15869238', '13484960', '13569678', '14808428', '15287987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8140541217319637
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867357921140788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7813222887701753
- Mean Citation Score: 239.45380400000005
- Max Citation Score: 278.34302
- Similarity Product: 235.81762509296416

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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