PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982040
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "256000"]

Abstract:
A feeding screw for feeding a developer includes a rotation shaft, and a helical blade provided on the rotation shaft and including a plurality of threads. The helical blade includes a first blade helically formed with a single thread on the rotation shaft, a second blade helically formed with a single thread on the rotation shaft, and a third blade helically formed with a single thread on the rotation shaft. With respect to a direction along the rotation shaft, a gap is provided between a downstream end portion of the second blade and an upstream end portion of the third blade. A volume of the second blade is not more than 75% of the first blade between an upstream end portion of the second blade and the upstream end portion of the third blade with respect to the direction.

Claim (Index 17):
A developing device according to  claim 14 , wherein an angle of said second blade with respect to said rotation shaft is 50\u00b0 or more and 60\u00b0 or less.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02041
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15982028', '15982023', '14855605', '13448776', '14381716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8357818632834498
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5219121926814783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8043948962232527
- Mean Citation Score: 267.069508
- Max Citation Score: 359.20108
- Similarity Product: 233.2049747763253

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