PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
A powder-amount detection device includes an outer electrode, an inner electrode, and a detector. The outer electrode is disposed outside a powder container to be replaceably installed to an image forming apparatus. The inner electrode is disposed inside a powder supply port of the powder container. The detector is configured to apply an electric field between the outer electrode and the inner electrode to detect a capacitance between the outer electrode and the inner electrode.

Claim (Index 3):
The powder-amount detection device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the powder container is cylindrical and the powder supply port is disposed at one axial end of the powder container, and wherein the outer electrode is a cylindrical electrode concentric with an axis of the powder container and is fixedly disposed on the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15984816', '12879336', '15988087', '13900850', '16320532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8182164609925041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4770393518232669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7840987500755805
- Mean Citation Score: 191.043538
- Max Citation Score: 234.15726
- Similarity Product: 188.95573480824

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