PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "252000"]

Abstract:
A transport member includes: a shaft portion having a linear portion that is linearly disposed along a linear section of a transport path, and a curved portion that is curvedly disposed along a curved section of the transport path; and screw blades that are spirally formed on an outer circumferential surface of the linear portion and the curved portion, and that transport a powder material by rotation of the shaft portion in one of axial directions of the shaft portion, the screw blades having a small-diameter portion which has an outer diameter smaller in the curved portion than in the linear portion.

Claim (Index 15):
The transport member according to  claim 7 ,\n wherein the shaft portion has, as the curved portion, a first curved portion and a second curved portion having a curvature greater than a curvature of the first curved portion, and the plurality of small-diameter portions have a wider range continuously formed in the shaft portion or a smaller outer diameter in the second curved portion than in the first curved portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20408
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15821909', '15698995', '14106406', '14277357', '15634506']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8040030908957166
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4647859740032132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7700813792064664
- Mean Citation Score: 132.550572
- Max Citation Score: 139.99129
- Similarity Product: 97.08082809597016

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

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