PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16280800
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "090000"]

Abstract:
There are demands for stable connections of contact points between a process cartridge, including a development device, and an image forming device. A development contact point, a first contact point, and a second contact point are disposed in this order on the inside in a perpendicular direction with respect to an insertion direction in which a development device is inserted into an image forming apparatus.

Claim (Index 1):
A development device which is removably insertable into an image forming apparatus, the development device comprising:\n a housing configured to store developer; a developer carrying member configured to carry developer; a first conductive member having a first surface for use in detection of an amount of developer stored in the housing based on a change in electrostatic capacitance, the first conductive member extending in a lengthwise direction of the developer carrying member; a second conductive member having a second surface facing the first surface, the second conductive member extending in the lengthwise direction of the developer carrying member; a development contact point electrically connected to the developer carrying member; a first contact point electrically connected to the first conductive member; and a second contact point electrically connected to the second conductive member, wherein the first contact point is disposed on a more inner side than the development contact point in a perpendicular direction with respect to an insertion direction, the insertion direction being a direction in which the development device is inserted into the image forming apparatus, and wherein the second contact point is disposed on a more inner side than the first contact point in the perpendicular direction with respect to the insertion direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61364
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15812977', '14326202', '12361956', '15815421', '15263887']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.783556738750324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5011933349156935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.755320398366861
- Mean Citation Score: 244.756342
- Max Citation Score: 309.4796
- Similarity Product: 291.4969767556429

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