PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "035000"]

Abstract:
A waste toner container is attachable to and detachable from a housing of an image-forming apparatus through an opening of the housing. The waste toner container includes a casing and a guide pipe connected to the casing. The casing has a first end and a second end positioned opposite to the opening with respect to the first end in a state where the waste toner container is attached to the housing. The guide pipe is pivotally movable relative to the casing between a first position and a second position. The guide pipe extends in a first direction connecting the first end to the second end at the first position, while extends in a second direction crossing the first direction at the second position. The guide pipe at the first position has a length in the second direction smaller than a length thereof in the second direction at the second position.

Claim (Index 10):
An image-forming apparatus comprising:\n the waste toner container according to  claim 1 ; a housing; a photosensitive drum; a charger configured to charge a peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum; an exposure device configured to expose the peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum to light; a belt in contact with the peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum; a drum cleaning member configured to clean the peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum; and a belt cleaning member configured to clean the belt, wherein the waste toner container is attachable to and detachable from the housing, the waste toner being configured to accommodate waste toner collected by the drum cleaning member and the belt cleaning member in the state where the waste toner container is attached to the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15655550', '14672343', '15602409', '15679248', '15633453']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8252565328097781
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925015480279872
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7919810343315989
- Mean Citation Score: 275.890088
- Max Citation Score: 284.55356
- Similarity Product: 224.20003000644448

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

Dataset: test