PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907093
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["222", "063000"]

Abstract:
A powdery-material feeding device includes a hopper configured to reserve a powdery material, a transfer member configured to deliver and to discharge the powdery material fed from the hopper, a motor configured to drive the transfer member, a measuring instrument configured to measure a discharge amount of a powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member, and a controller configured to control, while control according to the discharge amount of the powdery material measured by the measuring instrument is not conducted, a current applied to a coil of the motor to have a substantially constant amount, to control the discharge amount of the powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member to have a required amount.

Claim (Index 1):
A powdery-material feeding device, comprising:\n a hopper configured to reserve a powdery material; a transfer member configured to deliver and to discharge the powdery material fed from the hopper; a motor configured to drive the transfer member; a measuring instrument configured to measure a discharge amount of a powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member; and a controller configured to control, while control according to the discharge amount of the powdery material measured by the measuring instrument is not conducted, a current applied to a coil of the motor to have a substantially constant amount, to control the discharge amount of the powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member to have a required amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15422306', '15097135', '10493511', '15436477', '10494832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7672724995874701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852114137036811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7390663909990912
- Mean Citation Score: 210.034038
- Max Citation Score: 243.576
- Similarity Product: 187.1039719219208

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