PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004832
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a pressure rotator that contacts the endless belt, a nip formation pad in the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressure rotator, a heater in the endless belt to heat the endless belt, a stay to support the nip formation pad, a contact-separation mechanism that presses the nip formation pad against the pressure rotator in a releasable manner, a holder movable between a nip formation position and a release position to support the stay, and an adjustment mechanism. The holder is provided with a slot to support the heater, and the adjustment mechanism makes a distance between the heater and the nip formation pad when the holder is at the nip formation position larger than a distance between the heater and the nip formation pad when the holder is at the release position.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming apparatus comprising the fixing device according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.20408
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15160374', '15627693', '15377234', '15378214', '14497491']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8169527349982628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227279938812692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7875302608865634
- Mean Citation Score: 339.891972
- Max Citation Score: 343.24887
- Similarity Product: 204.38338095172043

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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