PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "222000"]

Abstract:
A developing apparatus includes a developer bearing member, a first and a second chamber, a first communicating portion and a second communicating portion, a wall portion disposed between the first and second communicating portions in a rotational axis direction of the developer bearing member, a first conveyance member provided in the first chamber, and configured to convey developer in a first direction from the first communicating portion toward the second communicating portion, a second conveyance member provided in the second chamber, and configured to convey developer in a second direction from the second communicating portion toward the first communicating portion, a replenishing portion, and an air vent portion provided on the wall portion at a position higher than a height of the first conveyance member and a height of the second conveyance member in a vertical direction, and configured to vent air between the first and second chambers.

Claim (Index 15):
The developing apparatus according to  claim 14 , wherein\n a cross-sectional area above the first and second conveyance members in a section orthogonal to the first direction at a position between the first and second communicating portions in the first chamber is greater than an upper area above the first and second conveyance members in the first communicating portion and smaller than an upper area above the first and second conveyance members in the second communicating portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.53333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15468342', '15599664', '15685187', '15333425', '13727714']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8406814594084412
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5073098125717047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8073442947247675
- Mean Citation Score: 275.537324
- Max Citation Score: 290.0242
- Similarity Product: 180.1435235290289

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