PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16395992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device comprising a fixing belt, a rotating member to be in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt.

Claim (Index 15):
A fixing device to apply heat and pressure to a printing medium, comprising:\n a fixing belt to deliver heat to a surface of the printing medium; a rotating member to be in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member; and a nip forming member to press an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt,\n wherein the nip forming member includes a protrusion protruding from a lower surface of the nip forming member to be in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt, to press the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt, at an outlet side of the fixing nip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15033791', '15918515', '14336332', '15177529', '14015035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020901786425905
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4851051990342047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7703916806817519
- Mean Citation Score: 219.729324
- Max Citation Score: 283.32095
- Similarity Product: 274.765162630397

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

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