PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "222000"]

Abstract:
A developing apparatus includes a developer bearing member, a first and a second chamber, a first communicating portion and a second communicating portion, a wall portion disposed between the first and second communicating portions in a rotational axis direction of the developer bearing member, a first conveyance member provided in the first chamber, and configured to convey developer in a first direction from the first communicating portion toward the second communicating portion, a second conveyance member provided in the second chamber, and configured to convey developer in a second direction from the second communicating portion toward the first communicating portion, a replenishing portion, and an air vent portion provided on the wall portion at a position higher than a height of the first conveyance member and a height of the second conveyance member in a vertical direction, and configured to vent air between the first and second chambers.

Claim (Index 4):
The developing apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein\n the air vent portion is configured such that an opening width of the air vent portion is increased consecutively from the first position toward the second position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.53333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15468342', '15599664', '15685187', '15333425', '13727714']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8410083933644056
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037196256094543
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8072795165889105
- Mean Citation Score: 275.537324
- Max Citation Score: 290.0242
- Similarity Product: 196.51243628860715

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