PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16104941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing belt; a contact portion that comes into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in a width direction; a holding portion disposed opposite the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt to guide and hold the fixing belt; a pressing unit that presses the fixing belt against the contact portion; a first protrusion and a second protrusion respectively disposed at portions of the holding portion upstream and downstream of the contact portion in a rotation direction of the fixing belt to come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in the width direction; and a lubricant applied to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt. At least one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion has a recess at at least a center portion of the protrusion in a longitudinal direction of the protrusion.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus, comprising a fixing device that fixes an unfixed image to a recording medium,\n wherein the fixing device is the fixing device according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13740837', '11211692', '14018734', '14227040', '12715833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8068324553432012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812907774031807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7742782875491991
- Mean Citation Score: 210.437076
- Max Citation Score: 213.21025
- Similarity Product: 147.14972758361696

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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