PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980123
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt, a heat source, an opposed member, a nip formation pad, and a heat conductive member. The nip formation pad includes an abutment region, a first opening portion, and second opening portions. The abutment region includes a plurality of abutment surfaces abutting a first face of the heat conductive member. The first opening portion is disposed at a center of the abutment region to form a non-contact area at which the nip formation pad does not contact the heat conductive member. The abutment region includes an upstream abutment area and a downstream abutment area from the first opening portion in a direction of conveyance of a recording medium. The second opening portions divide at least one area of the upstream abutment area and the downstream abutment area into a plurality of portions in a longitudinal direction of the nip formation pad.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein, in the longitudinal direction of the nip formation pad, the plurality of second opening portions is alternately disposed in the upstream abutment area and the downstream abutment area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75862
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14040866', '13020231', '14712439', '15040691', '13346061']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8370658720535175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4984199974086791
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8032012845890336
- Mean Citation Score: 254.257208
- Max Citation Score: 262.8827
- Similarity Product: 173.74873368587498

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