PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fusing apparatus includes: a rotating endless belt; a pressing member pressing the belt from an inside of the belt; and a roller forming the fusing nip between the roller and the belt by pressing, from an outside of the belt, a position where the belt faces the pressing member, wherein a surface of the pressing member facing the roller via the belt includes: plane surface, and a curved surface adjacent to the plane surface at a downstream-side end in a conveying direction of the storage medium of the plane surface, and when viewed from a cross-section orthogonal to a central axis of the roller, an upstream-side end of the conveying direction of the plane surface is away from a straight line passing through the central axis of the pressure roller and parallel to the conveying direction, farther than the downstream-side end in the conveying direction of the plane surface.

Claim (Index 9):
The fusing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a surface of the pressing member facing the roller via the belt further includes another curved surface adjacent to the plane surface at the upstream-side end in the conveying direction of the storage medium of the plane surface, and the curvature center of the curved surface and the curvature center of the other curved surface are located on mutually different sides, based on the surface of the pressing member facing the roller via the belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6129
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12753409', '11291108', '14604015', '13867713', '11865790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8189694181787872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119322456399722
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7882657009249058
- Mean Citation Score: 288.03894
- Max Citation Score: 304.46176
- Similarity Product: 219.41859334224705

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

Dataset: test