PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918515
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device comprising a fixing belt, a rotating member arranged to be in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, a nip forming member to press the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt and to rotate together with the fixing belt.

Claim (Index 13):
A fixing device to apply heat and pressure to a printing medium for an image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a fixing belt arranged to deliver heat in contact with a surface of the printing medium; a rotating member arranged to press-contact to an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating roller; and a nip forming member to press an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt,\n wherein the nip forming member includes a protrusion on a lower surface of the nip forming member and in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt, and the protrusion is to press the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt toward the rotating roller, and \n wherein the nip forming member further includes a step portion formed in an upwardly concave shape provided on the lower surface of the nip forming member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97143
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15033791', '14336332', '15177529', '14793949', '13751648']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7767189347546293
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919418537154274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7482412266507091
- Mean Citation Score: 213.253616
- Max Citation Score: 285.86053
- Similarity Product: 263.55313178507686

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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