PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964104
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "103000"]

Abstract:
A development device includes components such as a housing, a magnetic roll in the housing that moves marking material in the housing, a donor roll in the housing that is positioned to receive the marking material from the magnetic roll, a manifold in the housing, etc. The manifold has a manifold opening positioned to create airflow from the surface of the donor roll. Further, such structures include a seal over the manifold opening. The seal is a component that has a planar linear surface with seal openings that are aligned with the manifold opening. The edge of the housing adjacent the manifold opening is a first distance from the magnetic roll and the edge of the seal is a second, closer distance from the magnetic roll.

Claim (Index 15):
A seal of a development device, the seal comprising:\n a flat rectangular component having front and back planar linear surfaces ending at edges; and seal openings through the front and back planar linear surfaces, wherein the flat rectangular component covers a manifold opening in a housing, wherein the manifold opening is positioned to create airflow from a surface of a donor roll of the development device, wherein the seal openings are aligned with the manifold opening, wherein a first edge of the housing adjacent the manifold opening is a first distance from a magnetic roll of the development device, wherein and a second edge of the edges of the seal is a second distance from the magnetic roll that is less than the first distance, wherein the second edge of the seal is positioned to form a consistent gap to the magnetic roll equal to the second distance, and wherein the donor roll is positioned in the development device in a position to receive the marking material from the magnetic roll.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58491
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12250591', '11111337', '11686577', '11691834', '11455618']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7945887020073875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4579338235823153
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7609232141648803
- Mean Citation Score: 163.19649600000002
- Max Citation Score: 172.55305
- Similarity Product: 134.0611224978924

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