PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16372598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
An image forming unit of an image forming apparatus includes a developing device and a toner replenishing unit that replenishes the developing device with toner. The toner replenishing unit includes an upper toner container, a lower toner container, a toner conveyance unit, and a replenishment control unit. The upper toner container and the lower toner container are disposed adjacently to each other in a vertical direction in an apparatus body. When the upper toner container becomes empty, the replenishment control unit controls the toner replenishing unit so as to replenish the developing device with the toner from the lower toner container.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , further comprising:\n a motor rotatable in a first rotation direction and a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, the motor generating a rotational driving force; and a drive transmission unit coupled to the motor, the drive transmission unit allowing the toner to be discharged from the first toner discharge port by transmitting the rotational driving force to the first toner container when the motor is rotated in the first rotation direction, the drive transmission unit allowing the toner to be discharged from the second toner discharge port by transmitting the rotational driving force to the second toner container when the motor is rotated in the second rotation direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42222
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16127774', '16127689', '16357374', '14476981', '16214322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8022333175118125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.538230553919907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.775833041152622
- Mean Citation Score: 318.892516
- Max Citation Score: 391.02258
- Similarity Product: 387.5357485672116

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