PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fuser may include a rotatable member, a belt, a pressure member, and a sliding member. The belt and rotatable member may form a nip portion. The sliding member may be sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member. The sliding member may include a front surface, which faces the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The front surface may include a plurality of dimples designed to catch lubricant that moves along ridges between the dimples.

Claim (Index 6):
The fuser according to  claim 5 ,\n wherein each of the first, second, and third dimples has a regular hexagonal shape opening, and wherein each of the first dimple and the second dimple intersects an imaginary straight line perpendicular to the first borderline and passing through the first vertex.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16137646', '14231030', '15461801', '13045182', '13293794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8191952036066743
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5294162428411202
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7902173075301189
- Mean Citation Score: 227.866852
- Max Citation Score: 389.0121
- Similarity Product: 246.9027569983005

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