PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["430", "110100"]

Abstract:
A toner comprising a binder resin is provided. When the toner is observed with an atomic force microscope in tapping mode to obtain a phase image and the phase image is binarized with an intermediate value between maximum and minimum phase difference values in the phase image to obtain a binarized image, the binarized image consists of first phase-contrast portions having a large phase difference and second phase-contrast portions having a small phase difference, where the first phase-contrast portions are dispersed in the second phase-contrast portions and a dispersion diameter of the first phase-contrast portions is in a range of from 150 to 500 nm. The toner has at least two glass transition temperatures (Tg) in respective ranges of from 40° C. to 65° C. and from −30° C. to 20° C., determined from a DSC curve obtained at a first temperature rise in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement by a midpoint method.

Claim (Index 1):
A toner comprising:\n a binder resin, wherein, when the toner is observed with an atomic force microscope (AFM) in tapping mode to obtain a phase image and the phase image is binarized with an intermediate value between maximum and minimum phase difference values in the phase image to obtain a binarized image, the binarized image consists of first phase-contrast portions having a large phase difference and second phase-contrast portions having a small phase difference, where the first phase-contrast portions are dispersed in the second phase-contrast portions and a dispersion diameter of the first phase-contrast portions is in a range of from 150 to 500 nm, wherein the toner has at least two glass transition temperatures (Tg) in respective ranges of from 40\u00b0 C. to 65\u00b0 C. and from \u221230\u00b0 C. to 20\u00b0 C., determined from a DSC curve obtained at a first temperature rise in a differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) measurement by a midpoint method.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91667
- Patent Class: 430.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14658698', '14891032', '13609627', '11227215', '12297952']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7565439058866239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4956990257881747
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7304594178767789
- Mean Citation Score: 198.776694
- Max Citation Score: 238.42337
- Similarity Product: 160.00834436674117

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

Dataset: test