PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15929128
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "260000"]

Abstract:
A toner container is detachably attachable to a developing device. The developing device includes an inlet to be poured with a toner, an inlet shutter to move between a closed position, at which the inlet is closed, and an open position, at which the inlet is open, a biasing mechanism to bias the inlet shutter toward the closed position, an engaged structure provided in the inlet shutter, an engaging structure to engage with the engaged structure and to retain the inlet shutter at the open position against a biasing force of the biasing mechanism, and an engagement releasing structure provided in the inlet shutter and to release an engaging state between the engaged structure and the engaging structure. The toner container includes a contacting surface to contact with the engagement releasing structure and to make the engagement releasing structure release the engaging state.

Claim (Index 1):
A toner container to contain a toner and that is detachably attachable to a mounting portion in a developing device, the mounting portion including a link, the toner container comprising:\n an outlet to discharge the toner contained in the toner container; a shutter to open and close the outlet, and that includes a first engaging portion to engage with the link; a second engaging portion to engage with the link; an operating structure to move the second engaging portion; and a waste toner inlet formed in the toner container to introduce waste toner into an inside, wherein the second engaging portion is disposed at one end of the toner container and a third engaging portion is disposed at the other end of the toner container, the outlet is disposed at the one end of the toner container and the waste toner inlet is disposed at the other end of the toner container, in a state in which the toner container is not mounted in the mounting portion, the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are in a non-linked state with each other, and in a state in which the toner container is mounted in the mounting portion, the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are linkable to each other via the link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01961
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15971631', '14893826', '14094930', '14715818', '15970427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8289246512428475
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5469653782525974
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007287239438226
- Mean Citation Score: 309.083138
- Max Citation Score: 403.70007
- Similarity Product: 369.3660821690565

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

Dataset: test