PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16171633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
A powder container includes a powder chamber for containing powder for forming images, a powder outlet formed in a face of the powder container, and a shutter assembly to open and close the powder outlet and including first and second shutters. The first shutter is movable between a sealing position to close the powder outlet and an open position to open the powder outlet and includes a pressed member to cancel retention of the first shutter at the sealing position. The second shutter includes a pressing projection that interferes with the pressed member of the first shutter and is movable between a shielding position to cover the pressed member without interference between the pressing projection and the pressed member and a releasing position to press the pressed member with the pressing projection.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a projecting portion; and a powder container to contain a powder for use in image formation of the image forming apparatus, the powder container including:\n a pair of side walls that are lateral side faces of the powder container, the pair of side walls being in a direction perpendicular to an insertion direction in which the powder container is inserted into the image forming apparatus; \n a bottom wall that is a bottom face of the powder container; \n a powder chamber to contain the powder, the powder chamber disposed inside the pair of side walls and the bottom wall and having a bottom face; \n an engaging portion projecting inward from a first face of the pair of side walls toward a center of the powder container, the engaging portion to engage the projecting portion; and \n a plate member projecting from a second face of the pair of side walls opposite the first face, the plate member extending in the direction of insertion of the powder container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68627
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15247342', '13783528', '15690974', '14823624', '13198097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8498040637713178
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5375806318501868
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8185817205792046
- Mean Citation Score: 345.747388
- Max Citation Score: 409.2037
- Similarity Product: 371.7546166133404

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

Dataset: test