PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16159019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
A toner container attachable to and detachable from a main body of an image forming device and including: a first chamber containing toner; a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber through a partition wall and downstream of the first chamber in a toner supply direction; and a switching member in the second chamber that is movable or rotatable and has a shell structure. The partition wall has a first aperture. A bottom wall of the second chamber opposing the partition wall has a second aperture and sits on the main body. The shell has third and fourth apertures. The fourth aperture coincides with the second aperture when the third aperture coincides with the first aperture, and the first aperture is closed by the shell when the third aperture faces an inner wall surface of the second chamber.

Claim (Index 1):
A toner container that is attachable to and detachable from a main body of an image forming device, the toner container comprising:\n a first chamber that contains toner; a second chamber that is adjacent to the first chamber through a partition wall and that is located downstream of the first chamber in a direction along which toner is supplied; and a switching member that is accommodated in the second chamber, that is movable or rotatable in the second chamber, and that has a structure of a shell, wherein the partition wall has a first aperture, a bottom wall of the second chamber that opposes the partition wall has a second aperture, and sits on the main body when the toner container is attached to the main body, the shell of the switching member has a third aperture and a fourth aperture, the third aperture and the fourth aperture are in a positional relationship such that the fourth aperture coincides with the second aperture when the switching member reaches a first position at which the third aperture coincides with the first aperture through movement or rotation of the switching member, and the first aperture is closed by the shell of the switching member when the switching member reaches a second position at which the third aperture faces an inner wall surface of the second chamber through movement or rotation of the switching member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40984
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14616989', '11806567', '11806730', '15393017', '11567589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8105087149487609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4640682072631232
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7758646641801971
- Mean Citation Score: 189.66756400000003
- Max Citation Score: 203.74913
- Similarity Product: 163.2941601833558

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