PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
A conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a conveying body, a conveyance passage, and an inlet portion. The conveying body has an elastic material and is configured to convey one of toner and developer. The conveyance passage includes the conveying body therein. The one of toner and developer is conveyed to the conveyance passage in a conveying direction as the conveying body rotates. The inlet portion is formed at an upstream side of the conveyance passage and is configured to pass the one of toner and developer therethrough into the conveyance passage. The conveying body has an exposed portion exposed through the inlet portion being exposed inside the conveyance passage. A portion of the exposed portion of the conveying body includes a high rigidity portion having rigidity greater than rigidity of a non high rigidity portion of the conveying body.

Claim (Index 4):
The conveying device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the conveying body is a conveying screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15652357', '12008824', '11602076', '12943067', '15609216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8311190937675776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4959289762562859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7976000820164485
- Mean Citation Score: 237.147048
- Max Citation Score: 252.11395
- Similarity Product: 167.3237419786662

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

Dataset: test