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 9):
The fixing device of  claim 8 , wherein\n while the fixing belt is rotating, the fixing nip is formed between a first portion of the inner surface of the fixing belt in contact with the circumference of the outer surface of each of the sliding members and a second portion of the inner surface of the fixing belt in non-contact with the circumference of the outer surface of each of the sliding members, and a radius of curvature of the first portion is greater than a radius of curvature of at least a section of the second portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15033791', '15918515', '14336332', '15177529', '14015035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8185744830547534
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033142542450839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7870484601737865
- Mean Citation Score: 219.729324
- Max Citation Score: 283.32095
- Similarity Product: 209.2489694810271

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