PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "222000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a housing including a development opening and a containing unit that contains a developer, a developer carrier that rotates to pass through the development opening while holding the developer in the containing unit of the housing, an inlet portion of a flow path located in the housing at a portion including a downstream edge portion of the development opening on a downstream side in a rotation direction of the developer carrier, the inlet portion taking in part of an airflow caused by a rotation of the developer carrier to allow the part of the airflow to flow over an outer surface of the housing, and a guide member extending toward the developer carrier from a portion of the housing on a side of the inlet portion opposite to the development opening to guide the part of the airflow to the inlet portion.

Claim (Index 10):
The developing device according to  claim 5 , wherein the airflow processing path has a height rising toward or remaining unchanged on a downstream side in a direction in which the airflow flows.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15698963', '14918922', '15437668', '13247384', '13173928']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8214617478474587
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966899524611564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7889845683088286
- Mean Citation Score: 207.85070800000005
- Max Citation Score: 221.19434
- Similarity Product: 132.0571482705915

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

Dataset: test