PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16274376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "106000"]

Abstract:
A developing apparatus includes a developer container, a conveyance screw, a wall portion, and a sheet member. The wall portion forms a first chamber and a second chamber respectively comprising an opening portion that is opened to a conveyance screw side. The sheet member sealing an opening portion of the first chamber when developer is stored in the first chamber, the sheet member configured to be peeled off from the opening portion of the first chamber. The second chamber includes a sheet discharge port that communicates the second chamber and an outer side of the developer container, a portion of the sheet member reaching the outer side of the developer container through the sheet discharge port in a state sealing the opening portion of the first chamber. The sheet discharge port is arranged above the opening portion of the first chamber.

Claim (Index 6):
The developing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the sheet discharge port comprises an opening having a long hole shape, and a longitudinal direction of the long hole shape is arranged to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15969937', '15827254', '15599664', '15467252', '15003049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8371102281180964
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4982956249177658
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8032287677980634
- Mean Citation Score: 257.904286
- Max Citation Score: 269.36386
- Similarity Product: 183.8717262031817

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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