PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16253231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "254000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a rotating member that delivers developer to a latent image on an image carrier while rotating; a supplying member provided in a supply path extending in an axial direction of the rotating member; a stirring member including a stirring shaft extending in the axial direction and provided in a stirring path extending in the axial direction and arranged side by side with the supply path in a direction intersecting the axial direction, the stirring member stirring the developer while rotating by causing the developer to circulate between the supply path and the stirring path; and a preliminary member provided in a preliminary stirring path into which toner is supplied from an outside and provided by extending an end of the stirring path that is on a side where the developer delivered from the supply member is received by the stirring member, the preliminary member including an extension shaft as an extension of the stirring shaft and a helical transporting blade provided on the extension shaft, the transporting blade being divided into a first transporting blade and a second transporting blade provided across the first transporting blade from the stirring shaft, the preliminary member transporting the toner into the stirring path while rotating.

Claim (Index 4):
The developing device according to  claim 2 , wherein a pitch of the first transporting blade and a pitch of the second transporting blade are equal, and the first transporting blade and the second transporting blade are out of phase.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34375
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15718150', '15167284', '14733818', '14330999', '15229860']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8474559468480458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106448227019939
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8137748344334406
- Mean Citation Score: 300.024816
- Max Citation Score: 314.2794
- Similarity Product: 204.8942867768884

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