PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes: a developing roller that carries a developer; a developing tank that supplies the developing roller with the developer replenished from a replenishing port; a discharger that has a discharge port connecting to the developing tank and discharges the developer from the developing tank; a supply amount acquirer that acquires a supply amount of the developer to be supplied to the developing tank; a discharge amount acquirer that acquires a discharge amount of the developer to be discharged through the discharge port; a developer amount adjuster that adjusts an amount of the developer in the developing tank; and a hardware processor that controls the developer amount adjuster to adjust the amount of the developer in the developing tank to a value within a predetermined range, in accordance with the acquired supply amount and the acquired discharge amount of the developer.

Claim (Index 12):
The developing device according to  claim 11 , wherein,\n when a value detected by the bulk detection sensor exceeds a threshold value, the hardware processor determines that the amount of the developer in the first developing tank is outside the predetermined range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98039
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12337806', '12019984', '13350076', '12395916', '12332451']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8351362545427008
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4883765818549245
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8004602872739232
- Mean Citation Score: 240.740632
- Max Citation Score: 243.11894
- Similarity Product: 173.79992338842985

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