PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155940
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "284000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a developing apparatus including a developer carrying member, a developer container, and a regulating member to regulate the thickness of the developer. The regulating member includes a support member such that one end is fixed to the developer container, the other end is a free end, and the support member extends in a direction opposite to the rotating direction of the developer carrying member, and a contact member to be fixed to the other end of the support member and to contact the developer carrying member. The contact member includes a contact curved surface along a peripheral surface of the developer carrying member, and an opposite surface to face the developer carrying member. The contact pressure of the contact curved surface applied to the developer carrying member decreases as a location on the developer carrying member approaches downstream side in the rotating direction.

Claim (Index 8):
The developing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein, when the developer carrying member is viewed in the rotation axis direction, a length of a virtual straight line connecting two ends of a region where the developer carrying member contacts the contact curved surface is 1.0 mm or more.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03922
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16141800', '15658621', '11402022', '12022273', '15257678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8469802923018332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.495460499532911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8118283130249411
- Mean Citation Score: 257.02416800000003
- Max Citation Score: 265.87695
- Similarity Product: 194.02726399160028

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

Dataset: test