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 5):
The waste toner container according to  claim 1 , wherein the guide pipe is configured to expand and contract in an extending direction of the guide pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15655550', '14672343', '15602409', '15679248', '15633453']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8405753237368206
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5069566647438519
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8072134578375237
- Mean Citation Score: 275.890088
- Max Citation Score: 284.55356
- Similarity Product: 173.22394302223682

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