PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040007
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
A drying device includes a plurality of blowers to blow air onto an object to be dried, the plurality of blowers being disposed along a direction of conveyance of the object to be dried, and a plurality of heaters to heat air inside the plurality of blowers. Each of the plurality of blowers includes an elongated nozzle arranged along a nozzle direction perpendicular to the direction of conveyance of the object to be dried, and an airflow generator to generate airflow to be blown from the elongated nozzle. The plurality of blowers includes a first blower including the airflow generator at a first end of the first blower in the nozzle direction and a second blower including the airflow generator at a second end of the second blower opposite the first end in the nozzle direction.

Claim (Index 4):
The drying device according to  claim 1 , wherein each of the first blower and the second blower includes a housing,\n the housing of the first blower and the housing of the second blower each includes a wide portion formed at one end of the housing and a narrow portion formed at other end of the housing in the nozzle direction, a width of the wide portion being wider than a width of the narrow portion in the direction of conveyance, the wide portion at the one end of the housing of the first blower is adjacent to the narrow portion at the one end of the housing of the second blower in the direction of conveyance, and the narrow portion at the other end of the housing of the first blower is adjacent to the wide portion at the other end of the housing of the second blower in the direction of conveyance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02128
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13557219', '15921620', '10793254', '15913842', '15462449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.747057715532437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4779614958144676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7201480935606401
- Mean Citation Score: 150.282648
- Max Citation Score: 170.36588
- Similarity Product: 119.34438788740158

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

Dataset: test