PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
A powder detector includes a driver to drive a motor, a stirrer to stir powder in a vessel, a vibration plate disposed in the vessel and vibrated by a flip of the stirrer rotated by the motor, and circuitry. The circuitry detects a vibration of the vibration plate, estimates an amount of powder based on a detection result of the vibration, and causes the driver to drive the motor from a starting point, so as to move the stirrer to a preset halt position. The starting point is a rotation angle of the motor on detection of the vibration.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of controlling a powder detector, the method comprising:\n driving a motor; stirring powder in the vessel by a stirrer rotated by the motor: detecting a vibration of a vibration plate disposed in the vessel and vibrated by a flip of the stirrer rotated by the motor; estimating an amount of powder based on a detection result of the vibration; and driving the motor from a starting point, so as to move the stirrer to a preset halt position, the starting point being a rotation angle of the motor on detection of the vibration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15370817', '14884961', '15280268', '14958090', '16103276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7984388730434545
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688221367858877
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7654771994176979
- Mean Citation Score: 183.09403
- Max Citation Score: 199.00285
- Similarity Product: 151.0251224815905

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