PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941191
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "279000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a housing having an opening in a wall thereof, a hollow developing roller, a magnetic pole structure disposed within the developing roller and at least a portion thereof facing the opening in the housing, a gap forming member located within the housing at a location downstream the opening in the housing and forming a first gap with the developing roller and forming a second gap with the housing, and a blocking member arranged in the first gap. The housing and the gap forming member form a first opening and a second opening spaced from the first opening across the second gap between the gap forming member and the housing, such that the first opening is farther from the opening in the wall of the housing than the second opening, and the width of the first opening is larger than that of the second opening.

Claim (Index 12):
The developing device according to  claim 11 , wherein\n the gap forming member extends in the direction of the axis of rotation of the developing roller, and includes a first side surface located on the side thereof distal to the opening in the enclosure wall of the housing and a second side wall located on the side thereof proximal to the opening wall; and a first opening into the gap at the portion thereof between the first wall surface side of the gap forming member and the adjacent surface of the enclosure wall is longer, in the rotation axis of the developing roller direction, than a second opening into the gap at the portion thereof between the second wall surface side of the gap forming member and the adjacent surface of the enclosure wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10617399', '14624422', '15585526', '12872080', '13800095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7835697691689495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4772607031247719
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7529388625645318
- Mean Citation Score: 167.512442
- Max Citation Score: 172.91078000000005
- Similarity Product: 123.04003462208632

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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