PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16111222
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes an accommodating section that accommodates a developer; a developing section; a transporting section that is disposed below the developing section in a gravitational direction; a flow channel portion that extends from an inner side to an outer side of the accommodating section; a first wall portion that extends towards the transporting section at an end portion on an inner side of the flow channel portion; and a second wall portion that extends towards the transporting section at the end portion on the inner side of the flow channel portion, a distance from the second wall portion to an outer peripheral edge of the transporting section being greater than or equal to a distance from the first wall portion to the outer peripheral edge of the transporting section.

Claim (Index 9):
The developing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the flow channel portion is formed so as to extend above the developing section in the gravitational direction in accordance with an outer periphery of the developing section from the inner side of the accommodating section, and an air pressure at an end portion on an outer side of the flow channel portion is lower than an air pressure between the first wall portion and the second wall portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.875
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14790080', '15916334', '14918922', '13542802', '14816761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8101430901050408
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775561877355136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7768843998680881
- Mean Citation Score: 164.47689599999995
- Max Citation Score: 175.47752
- Similarity Product: 117.46922896725654

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

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