PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16127689
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
An image forming unit of an image forming apparatus includes a developing device and a toner replenishing unit that replenishes the developing device with toner. The toner replenishing unit includes an upper toner container, a lower toner container, a toner conveyance unit, and a replenishment control unit. The upper toner container and the lower toner container are disposed in a staggered manner in an apparatus body. When the upper toner container becomes empty, the replenishment control unit controls the toner replenishing unit so as to replenish the developing device with the toner from the lower toner container.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the first toner container includes a first toner discharge port formed on a leading end side in a mounting direction with respect to the first container mounting unit, the second toner container includes a second toner discharge port formed on the leading end side in the mounting direction with respect to the second container mounting unit, the second container mounting unit positions the second toner container in the apparatus body such that the leading end portion in the mounting direction of the first toner container mounted in the first container mounting unit and the leading end portion in the mounting direction of the second toner container are disposed at an identical position in the mounting direction, part of the toner conveyance unit is disposed in a container step portion formed in space below the leading end portion of the first toner container in the mounting direction, the space facing the leading end portion of the second toner container in the mounting direction in a direction horizontal and orthogonal to the axial direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16127774', '14476981', '13748860', '15006411', '15925235']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8364671705232376
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5314990587774946
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8059703593486633
- Mean Citation Score: 286.8551300000001
- Max Citation Score: 386.8058
- Similarity Product: 365.8846873030782

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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