PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "260000"]

Abstract:
A toner container is detachably attachable to a developing device. The developing device includes an inlet to be poured with a toner, an inlet shutter to move between a closed position, at which the inlet is closed, and an open position, at which the inlet is open, a biasing mechanism to bias the inlet shutter toward the closed position, an engaged structure provided in the inlet shutter, an engaging structure to engage with the engaged structure and to retain the inlet shutter at the open position against a biasing force of the biasing mechanism, and an engagement releasing structure provided in the inlet shutter and to release an engaging state between the engaged structure and the engaging structure. The toner container includes a contacting surface to contact with the engagement releasing structure and to make the engagement releasing structure release the engaging state.

Claim (Index 4):
The toner container according to  claim 1 , wherein the engaging structure includes an elastically deforming structure that, while the container body is being attached to the developing device, contacts with a protrusion provided in the developing device and undergoes elastic deformation, and then elastically returns after crossing the protrusion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01961
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14893826', '14094930', '14715818', '11806567', '13749104']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8364928599062559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179920576174274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804642779677373
- Mean Citation Score: 253.2377
- Max Citation Score: 362.90588
- Similarity Product: 237.83585176394945

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

Dataset: test