PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907604
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
One or more toner bottles are provided for supplying toners to development apparatuses. The toner bottles each include bottle portions and displacement sensors. The bottle portions accommodate the toners and are rotated by a drive force of a drive source. The displacement sensors are positioned on sides of the bottle portions and detect deflection amounts of the sides of the bottle portions to determine how much toner is remaining in each toner bottle.

Claim (Index 17):
A toner bottle that indicates an amount of toner accommodated therein, the toner bottle comprising:\n a bottle portion configured to accommodate the toner for creating an image; a twist sensor disposed in the bottle portion and having a fixed end coupled to bottle portion with a free end extending in a space defined by the bottle portion; a control unit configured to calculate an amount of the toner in the bottle portion based on a detection result generated by the displacement sensor; and a rotor disposed in the cylindrical bottle portion and configured to rotate to output the toner from the cylindrical bottle portion, wherein the twister sensor is configured to detect an amount of toner when the rotor rotates and output the detection result to the control unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7907
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13799420', '13251756', '12473941', '15361519', '13834637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8038667155442235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4615402156764769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7696340655574488
- Mean Citation Score: 162.863172
- Max Citation Score: 167.48996
- Similarity Product: 124.26213357532023

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