PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "252000"]

Abstract:
A transport member includes: a shaft portion having a linear portion that is linearly disposed along a linear section of a transport path, and a curved portion that is curvedly disposed along a curved section of the transport path; and screw blades that are spirally formed on an outer circumferential surface of the linear portion and the curved portion, and that transport a powder material by rotation of the shaft portion in one of axial directions of the shaft portion, the screw blades having a small-diameter portion which has an outer diameter smaller in the curved portion than in the linear portion.

Claim (Index 17):
A transport member comprising:\n a shaft portion having a linear portion that is linearly disposed along a linear section of a transport path, and a curved portion that is curvedly disposed along a curved section of the transport path; and screw blades that are spirally formed on an outer circumferential surface of the linear portion and the curved portion, and that transport a powder material by rotation of the shaft portion in one of axial directions of the shaft portion, the screw blades having an arrangement interval larger in the curved portion than in the linear portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20408
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15821909', '15698995', '14106406', '14277357', '15634506']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.785008357597285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4602234910203335
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.75252987093959
- Mean Citation Score: 132.550572
- Max Citation Score: 139.99129
- Similarity Product: 98.86041431477187

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

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