PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a developing device detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus; a supplying device including an accommodating portion for accommodating a developer supplied from a developer container accommodating the developer, the supplying device being effective to supply the developer accommodated in the accommodating portion into the developing device; a controller for controlling the supply of the developer from the supplying device into the developing device; a communicating portion provided in the supplying device, for fluid communication between the accommodating portion and the developing device; a seal provided at the communicating portion to hermetically confining the developer in the accommodating portion before an operation of image forming apparatus; and a removing portion for receiving a driving force from the image forming apparatus to wind the seal up to permit fluid communication between the accommodating portion and the developing device.

Claim (Index 5):
An apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein said shaft disposed in said accommodating portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83019
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12019268', '14809396', '15335591', '10924771', '14842952']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8342234394703677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042539161536886
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8012264871386998
- Mean Citation Score: 240.247212
- Max Citation Score: 243.96494
- Similarity Product: 135.8651134846699

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