PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16260144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "323000"]

Abstract:
A guide structure includes a contact member disposed downstream of a nipping unit in a transporting direction in which a recording medium is transported, the nipping unit nipping the recording medium between a heating roller, which heats an image formed on the recording medium that is transported, and a pressure roller, which presses the recording medium against the heating roller, the contact member protruding toward the recording medium and being rubbed against an image surface of the recording medium, on which the image is formed, while being in contact with the image surface over a region extending in a width direction of the recording medium and while the recording medium is nipped by the nipping portion.

Claim (Index 7):
The guide structure according to  claim 6 , wherein the contact member includes a curved surface that comes into contact with the image surface of the recording medium and a guide surface that comes into contact with a leading end of the recording medium that is transported and guides the leading end of the recording medium toward the curved surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13752977', '15407937', '10843857', '13411971', '15135887']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.829065549442104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4940455315780665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7955635476557003
- Mean Citation Score: 229.328864
- Max Citation Score: 244.97955
- Similarity Product: 163.26756141436096

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