PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "234000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that holds an image, a developer carrier that holds a developer to be supplied to the image carrier, a transport member that transports the developer in an axial direction of the developer carrier, and a restraint member that restrains the developer, which has scattered as a result of being transported by the transport member, from moving toward the developer carrier.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 wherein the restraint member has a guide surface that guides the developer separated from the developer carrier toward the transport member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15437668', '15445256', '13191082', '12709022', '13491270']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8121448875825741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688831704039805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7778187158647147
- Mean Citation Score: 161.48103
- Max Citation Score: 164.97006000000005
- Similarity Product: 116.61709951683288

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