PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "256000"]

Abstract:
A feeding screw for feeding a developer includes a rotation shaft, and a helical blade provided on the rotation shaft and including a plurality of threads. The feeding screw includes a first blade helically formed with a single thread on the rotation shaft, a second blade helically formed with a single thread on the rotation shaft, and a third blade helically formed with a single thread on the rotation shaft. With respect to a direction along the rotation shaft, a gap is provided between a downstream end portion of the second blade and an upstream end portion of the first blade. The gap is disposed corresponding to a region where the first blade is continuously formed.

Claim (Index 15):
A developing device according to  claim 10 , wherein a rotation diameter of said second blade and a rotation diameter of said third blade are equal to each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15982040', '15982023', '14855605', '13448776', '14381716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8390377551488855
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5407271948097908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.809206699114976
- Mean Citation Score: 294.054006
- Max Citation Score: 410.0872
- Similarity Product: 350.0665278058052

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

Dataset: test