PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182826
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a first fixing section, a second fixing section, the first fixing section and the second fixing section forming a fixing nip therebetween, a nip width adjusting section capable of adjusting a nip width of the fixing nip, a rotation speed detecting section that detects a rotation speed of the second fixing section, and a hardware processor that controls the nip width adjusting section to make the nip width equal to a predetermined reference nip width.

Claim (Index 19):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the nip width adjuster includes a cam member that is rotatable and an energizing member that energizes the second fixer to move toward the first fixer and is capable of adjusting an amount of energizing for the second fixer through rotation of the cam member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15902568', '16141145', '12929859', '14281092', '15710518']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8279002220030751
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4935939853628394
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7944695983390515
- Mean Citation Score: 226.427052
- Max Citation Score: 236.22081
- Similarity Product: 153.73023385794818

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

Dataset: test