PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "313000"]

Abstract:
A toner conveyance device includes a conveyance path including a flowing-in portion to receive toner and a discharge portion to discharge the toner, a conveying screw to convey the toner from the flowing-in portion to the discharge portion, and a toner loosener disposed in at least one of the flowing-in portion and the discharge portion. The toner loosener includes at least one loosening portion to be vibrated by contact with the conveying screw and a support to cantilever the loosening portion. The loosening portion includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion disposed farther than the first contact portion from the support. A distance from the support to the second contact portion is longer than a distance from the support to the first contact portion in a longitudinal direction of the conveying screw.

Claim (Index 4):
The toner conveyance device according to  claim 1 , wherein the toner loosener is an agitator extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the conveying screw, and\n wherein the agitator is vibrated vertically by contact with the conveying screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.06522
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15460531', '15652357', '15007545', '13545434', '15158025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8307348005809166
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4822723904542532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7958885595682503
- Mean Citation Score: 228.536856
- Max Citation Score: 233.54793
- Similarity Product: 175.08193450698138

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

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