PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967945
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
A toner cartridge according to one embodiment includes a housing having first and second alignment guides that extend outward from a first side and a second side of the housing, respectively, and that run along a front-to-rear dimension of the housing. Third and fourth alignment guides extend outward from the first side of the housing. The third alignment guide is spaced toward the front of the housing from the fourth alignment guide. Bottom surfaces of the third and fourth alignment guides are unobstructed to sit on top of a corresponding guide surface in an image forming device to control a vertical position of the toner cartridge in the image forming device. The bottom surfaces of the third and fourth alignment guides are aligned with each other in a vertical dimension of the housing and are positioned higher than the first and second alignment guides.

Claim (Index 1):
A toner cartridge for use in an electrophotographic image forming device, comprising:\n a housing having a top, a bottom, a front and a rear positioned between a first side and a second side of the housing, the housing has a reservoir for holding toner; an outlet port in fluid communication with the reservoir and facing downward on the front of the housing for exiting toner from the toner cartridge; a toner delivery system for transferring toner from the reservoir out of the outlet port that includes a main input gear for providing rotational power to the toner delivery system, a top portion of the main input gear is exposed at the first side of the housing for mating with a corresponding drive gear in the image forming device when the toner cartridge is installed in the image forming device, the main input gear includes a rotational axis; a first alignment guide that extends outward from the second side of the housing and runs along a front-to-rear dimension of the housing, the first alignment guide includes a bottom surface that is unobstructed to permit the bottom surface of the first alignment guide to sit on top of a corresponding first guide surface in the image forming device to control a vertical position of the toner cartridge when the toner cartridge is installed in the image forming device; and a second alignment guide and a third alignment guide that extend outward from the first side of the housing, the second alignment guide is spaced toward the front of the housing from the third alignment guide, each of the second alignment guide and the third alignment guide includes a respective bottom surface that is unobstructed to permit the respective bottom surfaces of the second and third alignment guides to sit on top of a corresponding second guide surface in the image forming device to control the vertical position of the toner cartridge when the toner cartridge is installed in the image forming device, the bottom surface of the second alignment guide is aligned with the bottom surface of the third alignment guide in a vertical dimension of the housing, the bottom surfaces of the second and third alignment guides are positioned higher than the first alignment guide, the bottom surfaces of the second and third alignment guides are positioned higher than the rotational axis of the main input gear and are positioned closer to the rear of the housing than the rotational axis of the main input gear is to the rear of the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15597714', '14489551', '15364379', '14489541', '14700704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8062927787984885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5467967557745147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7803431764960911
- Mean Citation Score: 340.519812
- Max Citation Score: 409.66113
- Similarity Product: 402.2180515637452

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