PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164009
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image onto a piece of paper by conveying the piece of paper formed with the toner image while nipping the piece of paper at a fixing nip, and includes: an endless belt that is rotated; a pressing member that presses the belt; a support member that supports the pressing member; a sheet wound around the pressing member along the conveyance direction; and a pressurizing member that forms the fixing nip with the belt, wherein a part of an upstream region of the sheet existing more on an upstream side in a winding direction than a contact region contacting the belt and the pressing member and a part of a downstream region of the sheet existing more on a downstream side in the winding direction than the contact region are interposed between the pressing member and the support member, and are fixed by pressing force.

Claim (Index 14):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein a part of the upstream region interposed between the pressing member and the support member and a part of the downstream region interposed between the pressing member and the support member are superimposed such that the part of the upstream region interposed between the pressing member and the support member becomes a side closer to the pressing member than the part of the downstream region interposed between the pressing member and the support member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15672481', '14617014', '13293561', '12782042', '13692389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.810847089002933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5041595495355017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7801783350561899
- Mean Citation Score: 248.464802
- Max Citation Score: 262.27414
- Similarity Product: 176.5562475467336

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

Dataset: test