PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "256000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developing container including a first conveyance chamber and a second conveyance chamber disposed above the first conveyance chamber, a first stirring-conveyance member which conveys developer in the first conveyance chamber in a first direction, a second stirring-conveyance member which conveys the developer in the second conveyance chamber in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a developer carrier. A second communication portion is formed which allows the first and second conveyance chambers to communicate with each other at their end portions on a downstream side in the second direction. In the first conveyance chamber, a guide member is disposed which guides, to the downstream side in the first direction, the developer passing through the second communication portion to fall into the first conveyance chamber.

Claim (Index 6):
An image forming apparatus comprising the developing device according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7451
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15926804', '15890702', '14519864', '15019552', '15835860']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8238716081989538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4976106922549856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.791245516604557
- Mean Citation Score: 275.483224
- Max Citation Score: 310.82382
- Similarity Product: 270.5981738479757

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

Dataset: test