PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "111000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including a casing, a toner cartridge, and a process cartridge, is provided. The toner cartridge detachably attached to the casing stores toner therein. The process cartridge detachably attached to the casing includes a developing unit and a drum unit. The developing unit includes a developer roller and a toner conveyer tube. The toner conveyer tube has a first opening, through which the toner from the toner cartridge is acceptable into the toner conveyer tube while the toner cartridge and the process cartridge are attached to the casing. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum supporting the toner conveyer tube by contacting a circumferential surface of the toner conveyer tube. The developing unit is pivotable with respect to the drum unit with the toner conveyer tube and the drum unit being slidable on each other.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the main supplier tube further comprises:\n a second receiving shutter being movable between a closure position, in which the second receiving shutter closes the second receiving opening, and an open position, in which the second receiving shutter does not close the second receiving opening; and \n wherein the second receiving shutter is at the open position while the toner cartridge is attached to the main casing, and the second receiving shutter is at the closure position while the toner cartridge is not attached to the main casing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15701153', '15474507', '15685547', '15229544', '14813542']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8366537948555225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.591700735771781
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8121584889471484
- Mean Citation Score: 412.618932
- Max Citation Score: 566.4424
- Similarity Product: 433.549066475153

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test