PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
In an image forming device including a volume supply type developing device, generation of an aggregate of a developer on a back surface of a layer thickness regulating member is suppressed, while occurrence of an image failure caused by the aggregate is suppressed. An image forming device includes: a photosensitive drum; a developing device including a developing roller; a toner container including a toner sensor; and a control portion. According to an increase or decrease of a retention part formed in a first transport path, a toner flows into the developing device from the toner container. The control portion causes the developing roller to reversely rotate at predetermined timing when the toner sensor senses that a residual amount of a toner in the toner container falls below a predetermined threshold value.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the developing roller is arranged at a position obliquely above the second transport member, the layer thickness regulating member is arranged above the second transport member so as to be opposed to the developing roller, and the second transport member rotates to upwardly move in a region closer to the developing roller in a horizontal direction from below during the developing operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86842
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15926804', '13032949', '14180793', '15628919', '15628986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8306331264106068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879463582094339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963644495904895
- Mean Citation Score: 230.79102000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.91771
- Similarity Product: 169.77202406281592

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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