PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "119000"]

Abstract:
A developing device, includes a first storage chamber that stores developer; a first conveyor that is disposed in the first storage chamber and conveys developer; a developer supporter that is disposed so as to face an image supporter, supports developer conveyed from the first conveyor, and conveys the supported developer to a developing position where an electrostatic latent image formed on the image supporter is developed; a second storage chamber that stores developer conveyed via the developing position and communicates with the first storage chamber at a confluent opening; a second conveyor that is disposed in the second storage chamber and conveys developer conveyed via the developing position toward the confluent opening; and a third storage chamber that stores developer overflowing in a case where an amount of developer in the second storage chamber becomes a predetermined amount or more.

Claim (Index 8):
The developing device of  claim 1 , wherein the third storage chamber includes a slope surface that continues to one side wall among a plurality of side walls surrounding the second storage chamber and spreads upwardly to an outside, and the third storage chamber returns the stored developer, by making the developer fall along the slope surface, to the second storage chamber in which an amount developer has become a predetermined amount or less.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66071
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15003049', '15793053', '14519864', '12019984', '11450470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8281500033174121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926847303008881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946034760157598
- Mean Citation Score: 220.011218
- Max Citation Score: 232.50896
- Similarity Product: 151.2383058664894

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