PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16294933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotary first fixing unit, a second fixing unit that is formed of an endless belt and is in contact with the first fixing unit at a position other than an uppermost point and a lowermost point in a vertical direction to form a fixing nip, and a lubricant retaining unit arranged at a position including the lowermost point to retain a lubricant to be supplied to an inner peripheral surface of the belt.

Claim (Index 11):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the belt is configured to bent upward in the vertical direction at the lowermost point of the second fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16294871', '15379354', '14502387', '15685779', '15804459']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5692617510015923
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5122635162219288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.563561927523626
- Mean Citation Score: 246.476306
- Max Citation Score: 277.22638
- Similarity Product: 178.50402731370212

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