PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16204707
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "062000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a developer casing that accommodates a developer; an developer detector that is disposed in the developer casing, and that detects, based on magnetic force, the developer from a plurality of detection ranges that is close to each other and is disposed side by side in a vertical direction in the developer casing; and a hardware processor that performs control of detecting a liquid level position of the developer in the developer casing, based on a detection result detected by the developer detector.

Claim (Index 16):
A developing device comprising:\n a developer casing that accommodates a developer; an developer detector that is disposed in the developer casing, and that detects, based on magnetic force, the developer from a plurality of detection ranges that is close to each other and is disposed side by side in a vertical direction in the developer casing; and a hardware processor that performs control of detecting a liquid level position of the developer in the developer casing, based on a detection result detected by the developer detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93878
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15695265', '15908293', '11408081', '12379568', '11761731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8078374243762405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4773671350479172
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7747903954434082
- Mean Citation Score: 206.74942600000003
- Max Citation Score: 219.27364
- Similarity Product: 161.48770917992354

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