PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
A cleaning apparatus and a fixing apparatus include a cleaning web configured to remove toner adhering to a rotation member, the cleaning web including a recessed portion in at least a part thereof, and a displacement mechanism configured to situate a relative position between the rotation member and a pressure member configured to press the cleaning web toward the rotation member at a first position where the cleaning web is pressed toward the rotation member by the pressure member and at a second position where the rotation member and the pressure member are farther from each other than at the first position. The displacement mechanism situates the relative position at the second position based on an output of a detection position configured to detect a position of the recessed portion, so that a rear end of the recessed portion is not pressed toward the rotation member by the pressure member.

Claim (Index 17):
A fixing apparatus comprising:\n first and second rotation members configured to form a first nip portion for fixing a toner image to a recording material; a third rotation member configured to make contact with the first rotation member; a cleaning web configured to remove toner adhering to the third rotation member, the cleaning web including a recessed portion in at least a part thereof; a pressure member configured to press the cleaning web toward the third rotation member; a moving mechanism configured to move the cleaning web so that the cleaning web is moved between the third rotation member and the pressure member; a detection unit configured to detect a position of the recessed portion; and a displacement mechanism configured to situate a relative position between the third rotation member and the pressure member at a first position where a force acting on a second nip portion formed by the cleaning web and the pressure member is a first force and at a second position where the force acting on the second nip portion is a second force smaller than the first force, wherein the displacement mechanism is configured to, when a rear end of the recessed portion passes the second nip portion, situate the relative position at the second position based on an output of the detection unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54098
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13064212', '13585363', '12708890', '13942787', '14632330']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8170183043395435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794935912500703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7832658330305962
- Mean Citation Score: 238.141306
- Max Citation Score: 248.55537
- Similarity Product: 199.1877415572613

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

Dataset: test