PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210036
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developer bearer opposed to an image bearer, configured to bear developer and rotate in a direction of rotation of the developer bearer, and configured to develop a latent image on the image bearer and a casing opposed to the developer bearer at a position downstream from an opposed position, at which the developer bearer is opposed to the image bearer, in the direction of rotation of the developer bearer. A casing gap between the developer bearer and the casing continuously decreases or increases from a first end of the developing device to a second end of the developing device across a center of the developing device in a longitudinal direction of the developing device.

Claim (Index 2):
The developing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising a developer regulator opposed to the developer bearer at a position upstream from the opposed position in the direction of rotation of the developer bearer and configured to adjust an amount of the developer on the developer bearer,\n wherein a doctor gap between the developer bearer and the developer regulator is constant in the longitudinal direction of the developing device or changes at a rate smaller than a rate at which the casing gap between the developer bearer and the casing continuously decreases or increases from the first end of the developing device to the second end of the developing device in the longitudinal direction of the developing device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84091
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14965313', '15368924', '15012144', '15288939', '15394992']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7964564979719171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5077020605556267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7675810542302881
- Mean Citation Score: 273.46706800000004
- Max Citation Score: 283.19632
- Similarity Product: 187.7237765545464

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

Dataset: test