PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16127689
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "262000"]

Abstract:
An image forming unit of an image forming apparatus includes a developing device and a toner replenishing unit that replenishes the developing device with toner. The toner replenishing unit includes an upper toner container, a lower toner container, a toner conveyance unit, and a replenishment control unit. The upper toner container and the lower toner container are disposed in a staggered manner in an apparatus body. When the upper toner container becomes empty, the replenishment control unit controls the toner replenishing unit so as to replenish the developing device with the toner from the lower toner container.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein\n the toner conveyance unit further includes: a first lateral conveyance unit configured to receive the toner from the first longitudinal conveyance unit, the first lateral conveyance unit being configured to deliver the toner to the joining conveyance unit while conveying the toner along the horizontal direction; and a second lateral conveyance unit configured to receive the toner from the second longitudinal conveyance unit, the second lateral conveyance unit being configured to deliver the toner to the joining conveyance unit while conveying the toner along the horizontal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16127774', '14476981', '13748860', '15006411', '15925235']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8361528292882366
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5319861054775117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8057361569071642
- Mean Citation Score: 286.8551300000001
- Max Citation Score: 386.8058
- Similarity Product: 382.2338175350188

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