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 3):
The toner container of  claim 2 , wherein\n the switching member is switched between a first state and a second state in accordance with attachment and detachment of the toner container to and from the main body, where the first state is a state in which the switching member is located at the second position where the switching member blocks supply of toner from the toner container to the main body when (i) the toner container is not attached to the main body or (ii) the attachment of the toner container to the main body has been started but is not completed, and the second state is a state in which the switching member is located at the first position where the switching member allows supply of toner to the main body when the attachment is completed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40984
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14616989', '11806567', '11806730', '15393017', '11567589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8264974734673372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775462252410053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.791602348644704
- Mean Citation Score: 189.66756400000003
- Max Citation Score: 203.74913
- Similarity Product: 145.78493081097247

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