PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless fixing rotator, a heater, a nip formation assembly, and an opposed rotator. The endless fixing rotator is rotatable in a direction of rotation. The heater heats the fixing rotator. The nip formation assembly is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. The opposed rotator is pressed against the nip formation assembly via the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the opposed rotator. The nip formation assembly includes a nip former to contact the inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator, maintain a constant thickness against pressure from the opposed rotator, and transfer heat. The opposed rotator is shorter than the nip former in a longitudinal direction of the opposed rotator. The opposed rotator is disposed within an area opposite the nip former.

Claim (Index 6):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising a support to support an end portion of the fixing rotator, the end portion of the fixing rotator being in an axial direction of the fixing rotator,\n wherein the end portion of the fixing rotator is apart from the opposed rotator, and wherein, in the end portion of the fixing rotator, an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotator facing the opposed rotator is inclined in a direction to approach the opposed rotator while the inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator separates from an end portion of the nip former, the end portion of the nip former being in a longitudinal direction of the nip former.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15440179', '14992643', '14467135', '14979686', '14467341']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8468003991980955
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5169904012676384
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8138193994050498
- Mean Citation Score: 354.77577599999995
- Max Citation Score: 361.0792
- Similarity Product: 293.70482371916773

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