PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "225000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including a main chassis having a discharge tray and a switchback tray in an upper position with respect to the discharge tray; an image forming unit; a discharge roller to discharge a recording sheet conveyed through the image forming unit onto the discharge tray; a duplex conveyer to invert the sheet and convey the inverted sheet to return to the image forming unit; and a switchback roller being rotatable in a normal direction to convey the sheet toward the switchback tray and a reverse direction to convey the sheet to the duplex conveyer; is provided. The main chassis includes a pair of walls, each of which extends in a vertical direction and in a conveying direction of the sheet and is arranged in adjacent to the switchback tray such that the switchback tray is interposed between the pair of walls.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a main chassis, comprising:\n a first discharge portion including a first discharge tray, a first outlet, and a discharge roller configured to convey a recording sheet in a predetermined direction to discharge the recording sheet via the first outlet onto the first discharge tray, the first discharge tray extending in the predetermined direction, the predetermined direction being a direction including a horizontal component; and \n a second discharge portion including a second discharge tray and a second outlet, the second discharge portion being configured to discharge a recording sheet via the second outlet onto the second discharge tray, the second discharge tray extending in the predetermined direction, the second discharge tray being located at an upper position with respect to the first discharge tray, the second outlet being arranged in a different position from the first outlet with regard to the predetermined direction, the second outlet being located at an upper position with respect to the first outlet; \n a reading unit disposed above the first discharge portion and the second discharge portion, the reading unit being configured to read an image on a sheet and having a bottom surface, the reading unit being configured to pivot between a first position, in which the first discharge tray and the second discharge tray face the bottom surface of the reading unit, and a second position, in which the reading unit is farther away from the first discharge tray and the second discharge tray than the reading unit in the first position, the bottom surface being located at an upper position with respect to the first discharge tray and the second discharge tray; and an image forming unit configured to form an image on the recording sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15423264', '14884069', '13606128', '14865290', '14865328']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7706235419227945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.534987825380664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7470599702685814
- Mean Citation Score: 313.190676
- Max Citation Score: 402.11627
- Similarity Product: 393.84071968675073

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