PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16228916
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a plurality of image forming units each including:\n a toner image forming unit that forms a toner image; and \n a toner storing portion including a first supply toner storing portion that stores a first supply toner; and \n a toner cartridge that is removably attached to the plurality of image forming units and includes a plurality of second supply toner storing portions corresponding to the plurality of image forming units on a one-to-one basis, the plurality of second supply toner storing portions each storing a second supply toner having the same color as the first supply toner stored in the first supply toner storing portion of the corresponding image forming unit, wherein each of the plurality of image forming units further includes:\n a first supply portion for supplying the first supply toner stored in the first supply toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; \n a second supply portion for supplying the second supply toner stored in the corresponding second supply toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and \n a first conveying member that conveys the first supply toner supplied through the first supply portion and the second supply toner supplied through the second supply portion, to the toner image forming unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.87805
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15875032', '16228992', '12182542', '12581210', '12292387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8282675045693043
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5416593111020034
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7996066852225742
- Mean Citation Score: 310.0456200000001
- Max Citation Score: 414.86945
- Similarity Product: 392.8328636053741

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

Dataset: test