PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "336000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a cylindrical belt, a nip portion forming member contacting the belt, a halogen heater including a bulb filled with gas and having a sealing portion sealing the bulb, a filament inside the bulb and having a light emission portion, an external lead extending to outside the halogen heater, and a metal body arranged in the sealing portion and electrically connected the filament and the external lead, and a reflection member reflecting the radiation light of the halogen heater toward the nip portion forming member, the reflection member being long in a longitudinal direction of the halogen heater, wherein a longitudinal end of the reflection member is configured to lie in an area between an end of a light emission area constituted by the light emission portion of the halogen heater and the metal body in the longitudinal direction of the halogen heater.

Claim (Index 6):
A fixing device configured to fix an image formed on a recording material to the recording material, the fixing device comprising:\n a cylindrical belt; a nip portion forming member configured to make contact with an inner surface of the belt; a backup member configured to form a nip portion with the nip portion forming member via the belt; a halogen heater arranged in a hollow portion of the belt to radiate radiation light, the halogen heater including a slender bulb filled with gas, the bulb including, at a longitudinal end of the bulb, a sealing portion for sealing the bulb, the sealing portion being a plate-like portion including a surface portion; and a reflection member configured to surround the halogen heater when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the halogen heater, the reflection member being long in a longitudinal direction of the halogen heater, the reflection member overlapping with the sealing portion in the longitudinal direction, the reflection member having a cutout portion or a hole portion in an area opposed to the surface portion of the sealing portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62712
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15635049', '15454285', '15054387', '13426662', '15442471']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7802418586730954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5446132511925317
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.756678997925039
- Mean Citation Score: 268.906484
- Max Citation Score: 402.28323
- Similarity Product: 396.0186791043395

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

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