PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946232
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "360000"]

Abstract:
A transport device includes a transport member and a moving member. The transport member includes a shaft and a blade helically extending on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The transport member transports a granular material with a rotation of the shaft. The moving member extends from an outer side of the transport member in a radial direction to the shaft. The moving member includes a distal end portion moving in an axial direction of the shaft in a gap defined by the blade.

Claim (Index 16):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 15 ,\n wherein the image forming unit includes\n a plurality of carriers that hold toner images, \n an intermediate transfer body, to which the toner images are transferred from the plurality of carriers and which transfers the toner images to a recording medium, \n a first removing unit that removes toner from the carriers, and \n a second removing unit that removes toner from the intermediate transfer body, \n wherein an inlet, through which the transport member causes the granular material to flow into a transport area over which the granular material is transported, is disposed above the distal end portion of the moving member, wherein the toner removed by the second removing unit flows in from the inlet, and wherein the toner removed by the first removing unit flows to the transport area at a portion upstream from the inlet in a transport direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12842420', '15251870', '14459199', '15246557', '13902222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8049398346083038
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4665472498489624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7711005761323696
- Mean Citation Score: 141.855204
- Max Citation Score: 145.41353
- Similarity Product: 100.56407464296224

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

Dataset: test