PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "234000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that holds an image, a developer carrier that holds a developer to be supplied to the image carrier, a transport member that transports the developer in an axial direction of the developer carrier, and a restraint member that restrains the developer, which has scattered as a result of being transported by the transport member, from moving toward the developer carrier.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 wherein the restraint member has a guide path that guides the developer separated from the developer carrier toward the transport member, and wherein an opening of the guide path facing the developer carrier is larger than an opening of the guide path facing the transport member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15437668', '15445256', '13191082', '12709022', '13491270']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8102515407930723
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805843585100624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7772848225647713
- Mean Citation Score: 161.48103
- Max Citation Score: 164.97006000000005
- Similarity Product: 104.57914034860256

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