PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator that is flexible, endless, and rotatable. A heater heats the fixing rotator. A pressure rotator is disposed opposite the fixing rotator. A nip former defines a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A support supports the nip former. The nip former includes a back face that contacts the support and has a nonlinear shape in a longitudinal direction of the nip former.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing device according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein an entirety of the round portion of the back face of the nip former contacts the support.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18919
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15924631', '15295574', '15627704', '15063755', '15160374']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8486375329570465
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5103370168069168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8148074813420335
- Mean Citation Score: 302.1623840000001
- Max Citation Score: 317.63535
- Similarity Product: 214.55398116365083

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