PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16199595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has a toner cartridge to accommodate toner, a developing unit comprising a developing roller, and a drum unit. The developing unit has a toner supply member supplying the toner to the developing roller, and a frame. The toner supply member has a shaft, and flexible sheets provided at the shaft. The frame has a first chamber accommodating the developing roller, a second chamber next to the first second chamber for accommodating the toner supply member, an inlet opening for introducing the toner from the toner cartridge to the second chamber, and an adjustment member positioned between the first chamber and the second chamber. The adjustment member allows the toner to move from the second chamber to the first chamber when the sheets move from a lower edge to an upper edge of the adjustment member with contacting the adjustment member by rotating the shaft.

Claim (Index 12):
The process unit according to  claim 9 , wherein the frame has a discharge opening through which the toner is discharged from the second chamber to the toner cartridge in a state where the toner cartridge is attached to the process unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96296
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15648662', '14286200', '15869739', '16184583', '15655550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8456387601916834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5397948164417459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8150543658166896
- Mean Citation Score: 320.492692
- Max Citation Score: 417.114
- Similarity Product: 333.13656013584136

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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