PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164009
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image onto a piece of paper by conveying the piece of paper formed with the toner image while nipping the piece of paper at a fixing nip, and includes: an endless belt that is rotated; a pressing member that presses the belt; a support member that supports the pressing member; a sheet wound around the pressing member along the conveyance direction; and a pressurizing member that forms the fixing nip with the belt, wherein a part of an upstream region of the sheet existing more on an upstream side in a winding direction than a contact region contacting the belt and the pressing member and a part of a downstream region of the sheet existing more on a downstream side in the winding direction than the contact region are interposed between the pressing member and the support member, and are fixed by pressing force.

Claim (Index 11):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n a surface of the pressing member located on the support member side includes: a flat surface; and a recess formed adjacent to the flat surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15672481', '14617014', '13293561', '12782042', '13692389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8114456262492312
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4994898946613532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7802500530904435
- Mean Citation Score: 248.464802
- Max Citation Score: 262.27414
- Similarity Product: 190.93521048966645

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