PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136899
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
If a user is not familiar with the operation for the developer supply container, the rotating operation for the developer supply container may be insufficient, so that developer supply container does not reach a predetermined operating position, with the result of abnormal developer supply. by increasing a rotation load of a second gear  6  which is in an operable connection with a drive gear member  12  of the developer receiving apparatus  10  by a function of a locking member  7 , the developer supply container  1  mounted to the developer receiving apparatus  10  is rotated toward the supply position. After the developer supply container  1  rotates to the supply position, the locking by the locking member  7  is released, by which the rotation load applied to the second gear  6  is reduced, so that drive transmission, thereafter, to the feeding member  4  for developer supply is smooth.

Claim (Index 15):
A developer accommodation device comprising:\n a developer accommodating portion configured to accommodate a developer; a stirring member, including a rotation shaft and a stirring portion configured to stir the developer, rotatable about an axis of said rotation shaft to stir the developer in said developer accommodating portion; a drive transmission member provided at one side of said developer accommodating portion and configured to transmit a rotational force to said stirring member; an engaging portion provided at one end portion of said rotation shaft and engaged with said drive transmission member; a holding portion provided at said rotation shaft and configured to hold the stirring portion; a hole portion having a straight shape and provided opposed to a side opposed to a side surface of said developer accommodating portion and engaged with the other end portion of said rotation shaft to rotatably support said rotation shaft, wherein said hole portion has an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter in a cross-section of a central portion of said rotational shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12189273', '12189265', '12189284', '11750603', '12836724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8229732148128381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893210205069763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.789607995382252
- Mean Citation Score: 255.411288
- Max Citation Score: 258.18994
- Similarity Product: 186.7299573424924

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

Dataset: test