PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
Conventionally, the developer in the developer supply container is discharged by an air-supply pump and a suction pump which are provided in the main assembly side of the image forming apparatus, and therefore, the developer is compacted by the increase of the internal pressure of the developer supply container resulting from the air-supply. Therefore, the proper suction of the developer from the developer supply container becomes difficult with the result of shortage of the developer amount to be supplied. A bellow-like pump is provided on the side of the developer supply container, and the pump alternately repeats the suction operation and the discharging operation through the discharge opening by a driving force inputted from the image forming apparatus side. By this, the developer can be sufficiently loosened, thus properly discharging the developer.

Claim (Index 1):
A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer replenishing apparatus, said developer supply container comprising:\n a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer; a discharge opening for permitting discharging of the developer from said developer accommodating portion; a drive inputting portion for receiving a driving force from said developer replenishing apparatus; and a pump portion capable of being driven by the driving force received by said drive inputting portion to alternating an internal pressure of said developer accommodating portion between a pressure lower than an ambient pressure and a pressure higher than the ambient pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13246293', '14737646', '14941890', '13800212', '13242758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82786918351147
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5481575496625805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7998980201265811
- Mean Citation Score: 403.472676
- Max Citation Score: 415.8858
- Similarity Product: 401.7941037079811

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

Dataset: test