PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16104941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing belt; a contact portion that comes into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in a width direction; a holding portion disposed opposite the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt to guide and hold the fixing belt; a pressing unit that presses the fixing belt against the contact portion; a first protrusion and a second protrusion respectively disposed at portions of the holding portion upstream and downstream of the contact portion in a rotation direction of the fixing belt to come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in the width direction; and a lubricant applied to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt. At least one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion has a recess at at least a center portion of the protrusion in a longitudinal direction of the protrusion.

Claim (Index 11):
The fixing device according to  claim 5 , further comprising:\n a gap forming portion that forms a gap between the contact portion and the first protrusion of the holding portion, the gap extending in the width direction of the fixing belt and with which the fixing belt does not come in contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13740837', '11211692', '14018734', '14227040', '12715833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8072894007357296
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782995485651713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7743904155186738
- Mean Citation Score: 210.437076
- Max Citation Score: 213.21025
- Similarity Product: 152.33084660084546

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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