PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image formed on a paper sheet, and the fixing device includes: an endless fixing belt; a pressure roller that is rotatable; and a pressing member that is arranged to face the pressure roller with the fixing belt interposed there between and forms a fixing nip for conveying a paper sheet between the pressing member and the pressure roller, wherein a toner layer of the toner image includes crystalline polyester resin, and a pressure distribution of the fixing nip in a sheet passing direction is set so that pressure at an inlet side in the sheet passing direction is the largest, and gloss of an image fixed on the paper sheet is enhanced.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a pressure adjuster that changes the pressure distribution with respect to the sheet passing direction of the fixing nip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17241
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13129140', '10891887', '12878686', '12719056', '11219806']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8185897303346559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911430381170378
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7858450611128941
- Mean Citation Score: 245.45776400000003
- Max Citation Score: 251.90694
- Similarity Product: 173.06410088175772

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

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