PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016045
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a fixing device for preventing an increase in torque when a fixing belt starts to be driven. The fixing device may include a fixing belt that is rotatable; a pressure roller configured to pressure-contact an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt and to form a fixing nip portion between the pressure roller and the fixing belt. A contact member is located inside the fixing belt and includes a contact portion that contacts an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt. The contact portion includes a surface having a plate shape that faces the pressure roller and a plurality of protrusions that protrude from the surface toward the pressure roller.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device of  claim 1 , wherein\n the plurality of protrusions form\n a first row of protrusions arranged in a width direction of the fixing belt and spaced apart from one another, and \n a second row of protrusions, which is spaced apart from the first row in the movement direction in which the fixing belt moves, arranged in the width direction of the fixing belt and spaced apart from one another, \n the plurality of protrusions of the first row and the second row alternately arranged in the movement direction of the fixing belt at the fixing nip portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12727
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15297666', '15644701', '15804459', '15379354', '13293561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8019188758941166
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032601673906123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7720530050437662
- Mean Citation Score: 238.512342
- Max Citation Score: 311.5272
- Similarity Product: 301.30355001525874

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