PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16241520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image onto a recording material by applying heat and pressure to the toner image formed on the recording material at a nip provided in a conveyance path of the recording material, and includes: a heating source; a pressure roller and a pressure pad; and a sandwiching member, wherein the pressure pad includes a first main surface and a second main surface, and the first main surface is formed of a long plate-like member, the sandwiching member includes a long plate-like abutting part, and a width-direction center in an area included in the second main surface and corresponding to a recording material passing region provided in the nip bulges toward the abutting part side more than width-direction both ends of the area included in the second main surface and corresponding to the recording material passing region provided in the nip.

Claim (Index 8):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein a bulging amount of the area included in the second main surface and corresponding to the recording material passing region provided in the nip is non-uniform in a recording material conveyance direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15708372', '14953947', '14531313', '13020231', '15384115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8137555393748153
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127278630149212
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7836527717388259
- Mean Citation Score: 268.583928
- Max Citation Score: 279.0364
- Similarity Product: 170.56237528791428

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