PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907093
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["222", "063000"]

Abstract:
A powdery-material feeding device includes a hopper configured to reserve a powdery material, a transfer member configured to deliver and to discharge the powdery material fed from the hopper, a motor configured to drive the transfer member, a measuring instrument configured to measure a discharge amount of a powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member, and a controller configured to control, while control according to the discharge amount of the powdery material measured by the measuring instrument is not conducted, a current applied to a coil of the motor to have a substantially constant amount, to control the discharge amount of the powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member to have a required amount.

Claim (Index 16):
The powdery-material feeding device according to  claim 14 , wherein the controller controls the current applied to the motor to have the substantially constant amount, to control the discharge amount of the powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member to have the required amount while the hopper is supplied with the powdery material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15422306', '15097135', '10493511', '15436477', '10494832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7869794180529598
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930845089969764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7575899271473614
- Mean Citation Score: 210.034038
- Max Citation Score: 243.576
- Similarity Product: 173.47444631052016

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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