PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16203368
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "120000"]

Abstract:
A waste toner collecting device includes a waste toner container having an opening at an upper portion, and a shutter mechanism that opens or closes the opening. The shutter mechanism includes a receiving portion including an insertion port through which the waste toner discharging unit is inserted, the receiving portion having an inner space connected with an inner space of the waste toner container through the opening, a shutter member disposed in the receiving portion to be movable between an open position and a closing position, and an urging member that urges the shutter member to the closing position. The shutter member includes a ridge on an upper portion of an outer circumferential surface. The ridge has a protrusion height corresponding to a gap between the outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the receiving portion.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming apparatus, comprising the waste toner collecting device according to  claim 1 , which is attachable to and removable from an apparatus body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35484
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12881787', '14572657', '15915101', '15054296', '15532104']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8043316415405356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790130872293766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7717997861094197
- Mean Citation Score: 202.84638
- Max Citation Score: 215.62213
- Similarity Product: 154.2712973224312

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