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 9):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; and a fixing unit that fixes the unfixed toner image formed on the recording medium, wherein the fixing unit comprises the fixing device according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16294871', '15379354', '14502387', '15685779', '15804459']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.543930884274614
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887358671157234
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.538411382558725
- Mean Citation Score: 246.476306
- Max Citation Score: 277.22638
- Similarity Product: 258.52814177423244

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

Dataset: test