PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866002
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a heating unit; a pressure roller; a first frame supporting the heating unit; a second frame engaging the first frame; a first gear; a second gear; and a fixing member. The second frame supports a shaft portion of the pressure roller. The first gear is provided at one end of the shaft portion and rotatable with the pressure roller. The second gear engages the first gear and transmits a drive force to the first gear. The fixing member has a first portion engaging the shaft portion and a second portion engaging the second frame. At least a part of the first portion engages the shaft portion at a position on a downstream side of the shaft portion in a second direction in which the shaft portion receives a force upon transmission of the drive force.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a roller including a shaft, a roller portion covering the shaft, and a bearing portion rotatably supporting the shaft; an endless belt having an outer peripheral surface configured to contact the roller portion; a frame supporting the endless belt and the bearing portion, the frame and the bearing portion providing a contact region at which the frame and the bearing portion are in contact with each other, the shaft being located between the endless belt and the contact region; and a fixing member, the fixing member and the shaft providing a first region at which the fixing member engages with the shaft, the first region being located between the shaft and the endless belt, the fixing member and the frame providing a second region at which the fixing member engages with the frame, the second region being located at a position different from the contact region and the first region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15009122', '13493022', '11456224', '14057719', '14057775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8114617927218084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5256338929485613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7828790027444837
- Mean Citation Score: 258.057646
- Max Citation Score: 381.77823
- Similarity Product: 276.72218739576823

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