PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16201875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "333000"]

Abstract:
A fixing member used for a fixing device includes a tubular base layer; an electrode portion formed on the base layer; a heat generating portion formed on the base layer in such a manner as to be positioned next to the electrode portion in a longitudinal direction of the fixing member, the heat generating portion being electrically connected to the electrode portion; and an overcoat layer formed on the heat generating portion. The heat generating portion is a layer formed by a plurality of thin linear layers extending in the longitudinal direction of the fixing member and spaced from one another along a circumferential direction of the fixing member. The overcoat layer extends over a boundary between the heat generating portion and the electrode portion in the longitudinal direction of the fixing member.

Claim (Index 8):
A fixing device that fixes an image onto a recording material, the fixing device comprising:\n a fixing member including a tubular base layer, an electrode portion formed on the base layer, a heat generating portion formed by a plurality of thin linear layers extending in a longitudinal direction of the fixing member and spaced from one another along a circumferential direction of the fixing member, the heat generating portion being formed on the base layer in such a manner as to be positioned next to the electrode portion in the longitudinal direction of the fixing member and electrically connected to the electrode portion, and an overcoat layer formed on the heat generating portion, the overcoat layer being disposed to extend over a boundary between the heat generating portion and the electrode portion in the longitudinal direction of the fixing member, the fixing member being configured to come into contact with the image; and a power supply member configured to supply power through the electrode portion to the heat generating portion, wherein the fixing member generates heat as current flows through the heat generating portion, and a toner image is fixed onto the recording material by the heat of the fixing member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15252367', '15606198', '15496417', '12423208', '15578858']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8079631560622071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4762276621700306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7747896066729896
- Mean Citation Score: 212.032126
- Max Citation Score: 222.30278
- Similarity Product: 167.7017754669285

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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