PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16211015
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus that fixes an image onto a recording material includes: a belt, a nip plate contacting an inner surface of the belt, a roller configured to form a nip portion with the nip plate, a supporting member supporting the nip plate, the supporting member having a cross section in a shape of U, and supporting, with two legs, a surface of the nip plate opposite to a surface contacting the belt, and a guide member disposed on an upstream side of the nip plate and including a guide portion, wherein the recording material on which the image is formed is heated while being conveyed through the nip portion, and the image is fixed onto the recording material, and the guide member is supported by a first surface and a second surface of an upstream side leg among the two legs of the supporting member.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing apparatus that fixes an image onto a recording material, comprising:\n a cylindrical belt; a long narrow nip plate contacting an inner surface of the belt; a roller configured to form a nip portion through the belt in conjunction with the nip plate; a supporting member supporting the nip plate along a longitudinal direction of the nip plate, the supporting member having a cross section in a shape of U perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the nip plate, and supporting, with two legs forming an opening in the shape of U, a surface of the nip plate opposite to a surface contacting the belt; and a guide member disposed on an upstream side of the nip plate in a recording material conveying direction in the nip portion and including a guide portion configured to contact the inner surface of the belt, wherein the recording material on which the image is formed is heated while being conveyed through the nip portion, and the image is fixed onto the recording material, and wherein the guide member is supported by a first surface and a second surface of an upstream side leg, among the two legs of the supporting member, located on an upstream side in the recording material conveying direction, and the first surface is an end surface of the upstream side leg, and the second surface is a side surface of the upstream side leg and facing the inner surface of the belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52381
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15442471', '14502387', '14745789', '13751648', '14018788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.815219116532807
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5029560333675027
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7839928082162766
- Mean Citation Score: 247.46201
- Max Citation Score: 331.66962
- Similarity Product: 324.7757964629388

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