PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155940
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "284000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a developing apparatus including a developer carrying member, a developer container, and a regulating member to regulate the thickness of the developer. The regulating member includes a support member such that one end is fixed to the developer container, the other end is a free end, and the support member extends in a direction opposite to the rotating direction of the developer carrying member, and a contact member to be fixed to the other end of the support member and to contact the developer carrying member. The contact member includes a contact curved surface along a peripheral surface of the developer carrying member, and an opposite surface to face the developer carrying member. The contact pressure of the contact curved surface applied to the developer carrying member decreases as a location on the developer carrying member approaches downstream side in the rotating direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A developing apparatus, comprising:\n a developer carrying member configured to carry a developer; a developer container configured to rotatably support the developer carrying member and to contain the developer; and a regulating member provided on the developer container and configured to regulate a thickness of the developer carried on the developer carrying member, wherein the regulating member comprises:\n a support member configured such that, one end thereof is fixed to the developer container, the other end thereof is a free end and the support member extends in a direction opposite to a rotating direction of the developer carrying member from the one end; and \n a contact member configured to be fixed to the other end of the support member and contact a surface of the developer carrying member, \n the contact member comprises:\n a contact curved surface having a concave curved surface that is provided approximately along a peripheral surface of the developer carrying member; and \n an opposite surface configured to be opposite to the surface of the developer carrying member, the opposite surface being not contacted with the surface of the developer carrying member, on an upstream side of the contact curved surface in the rotating direction of the developer carrying member, and \n a contact pressure of the contact curved surface applied to the surface of the developer carrying member decreases as a location on the developer carrying member approaches downstream side in the rotating direction of the developer carrying member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03922
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16141800', '15658621', '11402022', '12022273', '15257678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8320448530120451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4834729506264745
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7971876627734881
- Mean Citation Score: 257.02416800000003
- Max Citation Score: 265.87695
- Similarity Product: 225.3197397795976

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

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