PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt member that rotates, and includes a first end on one side in an axial direction and a second end on the other side in the axial direction; a belt support that comes into contact with part of an inner circumferential surface of the belt member to support an inner side of the belt member; a guide portion disposed on the inner side of the belt member at at least one of the first and second ends of the belt member to guide the belt member moving in a circumferential direction; and a protruding portion disposed at a position in the circumferential direction of the belt member different from a position in the circumferential direction at which the belt support is disposed, the protruding portion protruding from the guide portion toward the other one of the first and second ends of the belt member.

Claim (Index 5):
The fixing device according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the belt support includes a convex portion disposed to extend in the circumferential direction and to protrude toward the inner circumferential surface of the belt member, the belt support including a first side edge and a second side edge, the first side edge serving as the first end portion of the belt support and extending in the circumferential direction of the belt member, the second side edge serving as the second end portion of the belt support and located opposite to the first side edge, wherein the far end portion is located closer to the other one of the first and second ends of the belt member than the second side edge of the belt support in the axial direction of the belt member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05882
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14503449', '14088818', '13311002', '15918515', '15033791']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8130176491839809
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4605632177943667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777722060450195
- Mean Citation Score: 156.03956000000005
- Max Citation Score: 159.3343
- Similarity Product: 119.18348506238462

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