PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing unit having heat sources each extending in a longitudinal direction thereinside, and sensors that measure a surface temperature of the fixing unit. The heat sources are provided at different positions in a projection diagram of the fixing device seen in a rotational-axis direction of the fixing unit. A first measurement position for a first sensor is different in the peripheral direction from a second measurement position for a second sensor. A sum of a first distance between the first measurement position and a first heat source nearest to the first measurement position and a second distance between the second measurement position and a second heat source nearest to the second measurement position is smaller than a sum of the first and second distances in a case where the second measurement position coincides with the first measurement position in the peripheral direction.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing device according to  claim 8 ,\n wherein the first sensor and the second sensor each include\n a detecting portion that is in contact with the surface of the fixing unit; and \n a supporting portion that supports the detecting portion, and \n wherein, seen in the longitudinal direction, the first sensor and the second sensor are arranged such that at least part of the supporting portion of the first sensor and part of the supporting portion of the second sensor overlap each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13716651', '15914747', '10814161', '12332050', '11482108']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8112818394735863
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4761540929466161
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777690648208893
- Mean Citation Score: 157.266324
- Max Citation Score: 161.83032
- Similarity Product: 106.1694705655861

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