PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device for an envelope includes an endless belt for heating a toner image formed on an envelope, in a nip portion; a driving rotatable member, forming the nip portion in cooperation with the endless belt, for rotationally driving the endless belt; a pad for pressing the endless belt at its inner surface toward the driving rotatable member; wherein the pad includes a base portion, a first projecting portion projecting from the base portion toward the driving rotatable member at a upstream end in a feeding direction of the envelope, and a second projecting portion projecting from the base portion toward the driving rotatable member at a downstream end in the feeding direction of the envelope, wherein when the fixing process is performed on the envelope, the inner surface of the endless belt is in contact with both of the first projecting portion and the second projecting portion, and is spaced from the base portion located between the first projecting portion and the second projecting portion in the feeding direction of the envelope.

Claim (Index 4):
A fixing device according to  claim 2 , wherein the execution portion is capable of executing a third mode substantially releasing pressure applied between the endless belt and the driving rotatable member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2069
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14056210', '11211692', '15178616', '13689005', '12683631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8101299437244538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5022916390369765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7793461132557061
- Mean Citation Score: 255.55449400000003
- Max Citation Score: 267.56024
- Similarity Product: 191.1742820211936

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