PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
A device that replenishes developer to a developer unit and includes a storage for storing developer, an agitation member, and a vibration plate. The agitation member has a blade shape and is rotationally driven to agitate the developer in the storage. The vibration plate extends from a top portion towards a bottom portion of the storage along a rotation direction of the agitation member, and includes a vibration portion that vibrates due to contact with the agitation member undergoing rotation. A top end of the vibration plate is fixed and a bottom end of the vibration plate is a free end, and there is a gap between the vibration portion and an inner wall of the storage. The vibration plate is provided with an engagement protrusion towards the free end that engages with the agitation member and causes the agitation member undergoing rotation to deform then spring back.

Claim (Index 4):
The developer replenishment device of  claim 3 , wherein\n width of the vibration plate in a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the agitation member is the same as width of the supply port in the same direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13681920', '13032108', '11201132', '14976254', '11937952']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8254420827388298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896297504152777
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7918608495064746
- Mean Citation Score: 213.62665
- Max Citation Score: 236.3303
- Similarity Product: 163.0629057703733

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