PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941191
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "279000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a housing having an opening in a wall thereof, a hollow developing roller, a magnetic pole structure disposed within the developing roller and at least a portion thereof facing the opening in the housing, a gap forming member located within the housing at a location downstream the opening in the housing and forming a first gap with the developing roller and forming a second gap with the housing, and a blocking member arranged in the first gap. The housing and the gap forming member form a first opening and a second opening spaced from the first opening across the second gap between the gap forming member and the housing, such that the first opening is farther from the opening in the wall of the housing than the second opening, and the width of the first opening is larger than that of the second opening.

Claim (Index 8):
The developing device of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a third opening located between the developing roller and the housing at a location, in the rotation direction of the developing roller, upstream of the second opening; and a shield extending from the housing over the third opening, the shield spaced from the third opening and the developing roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10617399', '14624422', '15585526', '12872080', '13800095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7626028160630722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475643253818955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7339068598386606
- Mean Citation Score: 167.512442
- Max Citation Score: 172.91078000000005
- Similarity Product: 122.28309978103044

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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