PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056556
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "176000"]

Abstract:
A height of convexities in a 0.7-mm-square area of a surface of the charging member is measured at five or more different positions in an axial direction and calculated. A height of a position where the charging member occupies 0.01 area % from a highest portion is defined as a reference height. An average proportion of areas occupied by the charging member at a position 1.7 μm lower than the reference height is 2 area % or less relative to 100 area % of the 0.7-mm-square area.

Claim (Index 1):
A charging member, comprising:\n a shaft body having conductivity; a conductive elastic layer, disposed on a first outer circumferential surface of the shaft body; and a plurality of convexities on a second outer circumferential surface of the conductive elastic layer of the charging member, wherein heights of all of the convexities in each of five or more different areas of 0.7 square millimeters on the second outer circumferential surface of the charging member are measured, the five or more different areas of 0.7 square millimeters are respectively located at five or more different locations in an axial direction of the charging member, wherein, in each location, the charging member occupies 0.01 area % relative to 100 area % of the area of 0.7 square millimeters at a first position from a highest portion of the convexities, a height of the first position is defined as a reference height, and wherein a second position is 1.7 \u03bcm lower than the reference height, and an average of proportion of areas occupied by the charging member at the second position in five or more different locations is 2 area % or less relative to 100 area % of the area of 0.7 square millimeters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73077
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15072689', '14918208', '12699390', '15443367', '10787299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7630074699468595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494926027142377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7361993256664113
- Mean Citation Score: 173.46818000000005
- Max Citation Score: 179.459
- Similarity Product: 105.67366582918169

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

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