PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "254000"]

Abstract:
A toner container according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for storing toner and a drive shaft positioned in the reservoir. The drive shaft is rotatable about a rotational axis in an operative rotational direction. A toner agitator extends from the drive shaft in the reservoir. The toner agitator is rotatable around the rotational axis of the drive shaft as the drive shaft rotates. The toner agitator folds relative to the drive shaft counter to the operative rotational direction if resistance to rotation of the toner agitator provided by toner in the reservoir exceeds a threshold amount. The toner agitator is biased relative to the drive shaft in the operative rotational direction. A radial length of the toner agitator decreases when the toner agitator folds relative to the drive shaft counter to the operative rotational direction.

Claim (Index 10):
The toner container of  claim 1 , wherein the toner agitator is biased toward the extended position of the toner agitator by a double torsion spring, the double torsion spring includes a pair of spring coils and a connecting arm that connects the pair of spring coils to each other and that contacts a trailing portion of the toner agitator relative to the operative rotational direction biasing the toner agitator relative to the drive shaft in the operative rotational direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72222
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15433001', '15722084', '11246926', '14976001', '13564037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8100312138600094
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5646206371497017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7854901561889787
- Mean Citation Score: 306.795414
- Max Citation Score: 442.16254
- Similarity Product: 426.26863929798

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