PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "254000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developer carrying member, a first chamber, a second chamber, a first communicating portion, a second communicating portion, and a feeding screw, provided in the second chamber, including a feeding portion having a first helical blade and including a returning portion having a second helical blade in the form of a plurality of threads, the feeding portion and the returning portion being provided so that a boundary portion therebetween opposes the second communicating portion. The first helical blade and the second helical blade satisfy the following relationship: P2≥P1, where P1 is a pitch of the first helical blade and P2 is a pitch of the second helical blade.

Claim (Index 2):
A developing device according to  claim 1 , wherein said second helical blade satisfies the following relationship:\n n\u00d7L>P 2, where n is a number of threads of said second helical blade and L is a length of said second helical blade with respect to the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6383
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15982040', '15982028', '15446339', '15229860', '14548773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8524671935066571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5076064132779052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8179811154837819
- Mean Citation Score: 280.61832200000003
- Max Citation Score: 302.8207700000001
- Similarity Product: 209.32062356605056

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

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