PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "222000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a housing including a development opening and a containing unit that contains a developer, a developer carrier that rotates to pass through the development opening while holding the developer in the containing unit of the housing, an inlet portion of a flow path located in the housing at a portion including a downstream edge portion of the development opening on a downstream side in a rotation direction of the developer carrier, the inlet portion taking in part of an airflow caused by a rotation of the developer carrier to allow the part of the airflow to flow over an outer surface of the housing, and a guide member extending toward the developer carrier from a portion of the housing on a side of the inlet portion opposite to the development opening to guide the part of the airflow to the inlet portion.

Claim (Index 5):
The developing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the flow path is configured to serve as an airflow processing path that allows an airflow guided by the guide member and taken in through the inlet portion to flow therethrough, and\n wherein the flow path is configured to capture a developer that moves on the airflow.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15698963', '14918922', '15437668', '13247384', '13173928']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8225115714150316
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4892376134123119
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7891841756147597
- Mean Citation Score: 207.85070800000005
- Max Citation Score: 221.19434
- Similarity Product: 146.1381351168275

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