PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "281000"]

Abstract:
A developer carrying member is disposed below a storage chamber of a frame and has a surface configured such that a plurality of dielectric portions are dispersed on a conductive portion, an upper region of the storage chamber of the frame is enlarged further in a horizontal direction than a lower region in which the developer carrying member is disposed, and the frame has a lower guide surface and includes a curved surface having a tangent plane inclined at a first angle equal to or greater than a degree of an angle of repose of the developer and less than 90 degrees, in an inner wall of the lower region, and an upper guide surface includes a curved surface having a tangent plane inclined at a second angle that is less than the first angle relative to a horizontal plane in an inner wall of the upper region.

Claim (Index 33):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member; and a developing apparatus comprising:\n a frame including:\n a first surface inclined at a first angle relative to a horizontal plane in an installed state where the developing apparatus is installed in an image forming apparatus; and \n a second surface inclined at a second angle less than the first angle relative to a horizontal plane, the second surface being coupled to the first surface so that the second surface is positioned above the first surface in the installed state; and \n \n a developer carrying member including a surface configured so that a plurality of dielectric portions is dispersed on a conductive portion, and which is rotatably supported by the frame at a lower side of the fame in the installed state, \n wherein, a lower end of the first surface is positioned to be lower than a rotational axis of the developer carrying member in the installed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42857
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15471457', '15481364', '10310989', '14269462', '13445494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8028349472424976
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5135474594834419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.773906198466592
- Mean Citation Score: 238.758562
- Max Citation Score: 332.0921
- Similarity Product: 238.8767875909805

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