PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "260000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a toner cartridge having a toner supply port; and a developing unit including: a developing roller; a developing frame; and a conveyance portion capable of conveying toner contained in the toner cartridge to the developing frame. The conveyance portion including: a coupling tube capable of being coupled to the toner cartridge and having a toner receiving port that faces the toner supply port in a state where the coupling tube is coupled to the toner cartridge; a conveyance tube fixed to the developing frame, the conveyance tube being movable with respect to the coupling tube, in a state where the coupling tube is coupled to the toner cartridge and the toner receiving port faces the toner supply port; and a shutter movable between an open position and a closed position.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein the buffer member is used to seal a region between the conveyance tube and the coupling tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84906
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15286851', '15286766', '15869739', '15466177', '15701153']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8522444417663709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5434115564960726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8213611532393411
- Mean Citation Score: 352.996282
- Max Citation Score: 417.05798
- Similarity Product: 329.697974392488

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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