PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904753
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "279000"]

Abstract:
A developing apparatus includes: a developer carrying member carrying a developer; a plurality of developer feeders accommodating the developer carried by the developer carrying member and being arranged in an axial direction of the developer carrying member; and a collecting part that collects the developer from the developer carrying member and feeds the developer to a second developer feeder different from a first developer feeder located at a position where the developer is collected from the developer carrying member in the axial direction, among the plurality of developer feeders.

Claim (Index 2):
The developing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein a feeding port through which the developer is fed from the collecting part to the developer feeder is formed at a boundary between the collecting part and the developer feeder, the developing apparatus further comprising: a toner concentration detector provided in each of the plurality of developer feeders so as to detect a toner concentration in each of the developer feeders; and a toner supplier provided in each of the plurality of developer feeders so as to supply a toner to each of the developer feeders, the toner concentration detector is arranged at a position capable of detecting a concentration of the developer resulted from a mixture of the developer fed from the feeding port and the developer within the developer feeder, and the toner supplier is located more downstream side than the toner concentration detector in a direction of flow of the developer fed from the feeding port, within the developer feeder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13636
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15695265', '15728593', '13033199', '12019744', '10460409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.783034217800251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4968729156206127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7544180875822872
- Mean Citation Score: 234.460826
- Max Citation Score: 265.67188
- Similarity Product: 199.4678129356861

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