PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film; a pressing member, and a preventing member including a preventing surface configured to prevent movement of the film in a longitudinal direction and a film rotation guiding surface. As viewed in the longitudinal direction of the film, the preventing surface includes first and second regions positioned downstream and upstream, respectively, of a nip center line with respect to a recording material feeding direction. The first region retracts from a longitudinal film end surface relative to the second region. The second region continuously extends in the recording material feeding direction from a portion upstream of a nip center line to a portion downstream of the nip center line, and has a length, with respect to a rotational direction of the film, longer at the portion upstream of the nip center line than at the portion downstream of the nip center line.

Claim (Index 5):
A fixing device according to  claim 4 , wherein both of the first region and the third region inclines so as to approach the second region in the longitudinal direction as these regions approach the second region in the rotational direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69492
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15869197', '13484960', '14816437', '14833445', '15001489']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8325150352580575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5137850159569018
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.800642033327942
- Mean Citation Score: 251.106304
- Max Citation Score: 296.11566
- Similarity Product: 159.9767157516861

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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