PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes: a developing roller that carries a developer; a developing tank that supplies the developing roller with the developer replenished from a replenishing port; a discharger that has a discharge port connecting to the developing tank and discharges the developer from the developing tank; a supply amount acquirer that acquires a supply amount of the developer to be supplied to the developing tank; a discharge amount acquirer that acquires a discharge amount of the developer to be discharged through the discharge port; a developer amount adjuster that adjusts an amount of the developer in the developing tank; and a hardware processor that controls the developer amount adjuster to adjust the amount of the developer in the developing tank to a value within a predetermined range, in accordance with the acquired supply amount and the acquired discharge amount of the developer.

Claim (Index 11):
The developing device according to  claim 3 , wherein\n the hardware processor determines whether the amount of the developer in the first developing tank is outside a predetermined range in accordance with a result of detection performed by the bulk detection sensor and the supply amount, and, when determining that the amount of the developer in the first developing tank is outside the predetermined range, controls the developer amount adjuster to adjust the amount of the developer in the first developing tank to a value within the predetermined range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98039
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12337806', '12019984', '13350076', '12395916', '12332451']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8345358988679943
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493183887029532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8004006976841481
- Mean Citation Score: 240.740632
- Max Citation Score: 243.11894
- Similarity Product: 162.11536630761626

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