PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245606
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A tubular film used for a fixing apparatus includes a heat generating layer, and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer respectively provided at one end and another end of the film in a longitudinal direction of the film so as to contact the heat generating layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer each has a volume resistivity that is less than that of the heat generating layer. A low resistance layer is formed in an area of the heat generating layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer in the longitudinal direction, so as not to contact the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The low resistance layer has a volume resistivity that is less than that of the heat generating layer, and extends in a circumferential direction of the heat generating layer.

Claim (Index 14):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein each of the first and second intervals is between 0.2 mm or more and a value equal to or less than a circumferential length of the heat generating layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96078
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15578858', '15606198', '15252367', '15496417', '16238790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8358632300115907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5349006832324205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8057669753336736
- Mean Citation Score: 267.633632
- Max Citation Score: 410.75735
- Similarity Product: 249.15494872601028

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

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