PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054374
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus includes a heater that is in contact with an inner surface of a film, a restricting member that restricts movement of the film in a longitudinal direction of the film, a connector that is connected electrically to the heater for supplying electric power to the heater, and a lock member that maintains a position of the restricting member and a position of the connector relative to each other.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the restricting member has a first locking portion, the connector has a main portion, an elastic portion that is capable of elastic deformation, and a second locking portion, and the second locking portion is joined to the main portion via the elastic portion and engages the first locking portion, and the lock member has a deformation restriction portion that restricts deformation of the elastic portion and thereby prevents the second locking portion from disengaging from the first locking portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15551772', '14662286', '14962057', '12169217', '13891550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7786374709200746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4822581903001019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7489995428580773
- Mean Citation Score: 156.98980999999995
- Max Citation Score: 162.9993
- Similarity Product: 108.40370944409966

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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