PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935791
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "259000"]

Abstract:
A developer conveying mechanism has a pipe-shaped conveyance passage, a shutter, a sealing member, and a biasing member. Through the pipe-shaped conveyance passage, developer is conveyed, and a discharge port is formed in a part of a side surface of the pipe-shaped conveyance passage. The shutter is arranged to be slidable along the outer circumferential surface of the pipe-shaped conveyance passage, and opens and closes the discharge port. The sealing member is fixed to the inner circumferential surface of the shutter. The biasing member biases the shutter in a direction in which the discharge port is closed. The sealing member has a frame-shaped contact portion making contact with the pipe-shaped conveyance passage, and a non-contact portion in the contact portion.

Claim (Index 4):
The developer conveying mechanism of  claim 1 , wherein\n the non-contact portion is an opening or a concavity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13769653', '15628919', '15628986', '13070224', '14519864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8273347786524924
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048413695513245
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7950854377423756
- Mean Citation Score: 233.237126
- Max Citation Score: 262.50784
- Similarity Product: 155.04115510744094

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

Dataset: test