PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "099000"]

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus includes: an endless fixing belt; a pad member having a receiving surface and a supported surface; a pressing rotator pressing the fixing belt against the receiving surface and forming a nip portion between an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt and the pressing rotator; a supporting member supporting the pad member; and a heating source to heat the fixing belt. The supporting member includes a base abutting on the supported surface of the pad member, and an erected wall erected from the base to partition a space inside the fixing belt into an upstream space and a downstream space. The erected wall is displaced upstream or downstream in a recording-material transport direction, from an intermediate position of the nip portion. The heating source is disposed in a larger one of the upstream space and the downstream space.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 8 , wherein\n the high-reflectance member is attached to at least a part of a surface, facing the heating source, of the erected wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13751648', '15379354', '15618819', '11211692', '14189953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8373504727562375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4834932960213849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8019647550827522
- Mean Citation Score: 238.956106
- Max Citation Score: 240.72514
- Similarity Product: 181.7270331726801

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

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