PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210036
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developer bearer opposed to an image bearer, configured to bear developer and rotate in a direction of rotation of the developer bearer, and configured to develop a latent image on the image bearer and a casing opposed to the developer bearer at a position downstream from an opposed position, at which the developer bearer is opposed to the image bearer, in the direction of rotation of the developer bearer. A casing gap between the developer bearer and the casing continuously decreases or increases from a first end of the developing device to a second end of the developing device across a center of the developing device in a longitudinal direction of the developing device.

Claim (Index 1):
A developing device comprising:\n a developer bearer opposed to an image bearer and configured to bear developer, rotate in a direction of rotation of the developer bearer, and develop a latent image formed on a surface of the image bearer; and a casing opposed to the developer bearer at a position downstream from an opposed position, at which the developer bearer is opposed to the image bearer, in the direction of rotation of the developer bearer, a casing gap between the developer bearer and the casing continuously decreasing or increasing from a first end of the developing device to a second end of the developing device across a center of the developing device in a longitudinal direction of the developing device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84091
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14965313', '15368924', '15012144', '15288939', '15394992']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7968623251075686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042606787710339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7676021604739152
- Mean Citation Score: 273.46706800000004
- Max Citation Score: 283.19632
- Similarity Product: 201.8659565227317

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