PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "254000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developer carrying member, a first chamber, a second chamber, a first communicating portion, a second communicating portion, and a feeding screw, provided in the second chamber, including a feeding portion having a first helical blade and including a returning portion having a second helical blade in the form of a plurality of threads, the feeding portion and the returning portion being provided so that a boundary portion therebetween opposes the second communicating portion. The first helical blade and the second helical blade satisfy the following relationship: P2≥P1, where P1 is a pitch of the first helical blade and P2 is a pitch of the second helical blade.

Claim (Index 6):
A developing device according to  claim 1 , wherein with respect to the first direction, a downstream end of a carrying region where said developer carrying member carries the developer is positioned downstream of an upstream end of said second communicating portion and upstream of an upstream end of said second helical blade.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6383
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15982040', '15982028', '15446339', '15229860', '14548773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8524809761029769
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074126625059823
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8179741447432775
- Mean Citation Score: 280.61832200000003
- Max Citation Score: 302.8207700000001
- Similarity Product: 210.41379301293915

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

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