PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "111000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including a casing, a toner cartridge, and a process cartridge, is provided. The toner cartridge detachably attached to the casing stores toner therein. The process cartridge detachably attached to the casing includes a developing unit and a drum unit. The developing unit includes a developer roller and a toner conveyer tube. The toner conveyer tube has a first opening, through which the toner from the toner cartridge is acceptable into the toner conveyer tube while the toner cartridge and the process cartridge are attached to the casing. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum supporting the toner conveyer tube by contacting a circumferential surface of the toner conveyer tube. The developing unit is pivotable with respect to the drum unit with the toner conveyer tube and the drum unit being slidable on each other.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a main casing; a process cartridge configured to be detachably attached to the main casing, the process cartridge having a first receiving opening for receiving toner, the process cartridge comprising:\n a drum unit comprising:\n a photosensitive drum; \n \n a developing unit,\n the developing unit comprising:\n a developer roller configured to supply toner to the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum; \n a developer auger for conveying toner from the first receiving opening to the developing roller, \n the developer auger being arranged at an upper position with respect to the developer roller while the process cartridge is attached to the main casing; \n \n and a toner cartridge configured to be detachably attached to the main casing, the toner cartridge having a first supplying opening for supplying toner,\n the toner cartridge comprising:\n a first hopper configured to store toner, \n a first auger configured to convey toner to the first supplying opening, and \n an agitator configured to supply toner in the first hopper to the first auger, \n \n the agitator being arranged at a lower position with respect to the first auger while the toner cartridge is attached to the main casing; a main supplier tube configured to transfer toner from the toner cartridge to the developing unit,\n the main supplier tube having\n a second receiving opening for receiving toner from the toner cartridge, \n \n the second receiving opening being at a position to coincide with the first supplying opening on the toner cartridge while the toner cartridge is attached to the main casing and \n a second supplying opening for supplying toner to the process cartridge,\n the second supplying opening being at a position to coincide with the first receiving opening on the process cartridge while the process cartridge is attached to the main casing, \n \n the main supplier tube comprising:\n a second auger configured to convey toner from the second receiving opening to the second supplying opening.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15701153', '15474507', '15685547', '15229544', '14813542']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.817241177173184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.599927292517957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7955097887076613
- Mean Citation Score: 412.618932
- Max Citation Score: 566.4424
- Similarity Product: 474.1712453187943

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

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