PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
In a developing apparatus, a housing has a first opening. A shutter is movable between an open position and a closed position. A locking member is movable between a lock position and a release position. The locking member is located between the housing and the shutter in a cartridge-attachment direction. The locking member is located at the lock position in a case where the toner cartridge is detached from the developing apparatus. The locking member is in contact with the toner cartridge, thereby moving from the lock position to the release position in a case where the toner cartridge is attached to the developing apparatus. A cover having a second opening that is in communication with the first opening in a state where the shutter is at the open position is located at an opposite side of the locking member with respect to the shutter in the cartridge-attachment direction.

Claim (Index 22):
The developing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the shutter having a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end in the first direction, wherein the first lock lever being positioned at the first end of the shutter, and wherein the second lock lever being positioned at the second end of the shutter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98113
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16189106', '15473408', '15335936', '15469341', '15485722']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8237883522087914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5381843912816839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7952279561160808
- Mean Citation Score: 324.8885160000001
- Max Citation Score: 391.3943
- Similarity Product: 326.6413414886713

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