PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16354388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["347", "104000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.

Claim (Index 1):
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising:\n a first roller pair defining a first nip point therebetween and configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a recording head including nozzle configured to eject ink droplets, wherein the nozzle of the recording head is located downstream of the first nip point with respect to the conveying direction; a second roller pair defining a second nip point therebetween and configured to convey the sheet, wherein the second nip point is located downstream of the nozzle of the recording head with respect to the conveying direction; a first contact portion having a first contact point, in an up-down direction, configured to contact the sheet and form a corrugated shape in the sheet, wherein the first contact point of the first contact portion is located between the first nip point and the nozzle of the recording head with respect to the conveying direction; and a second contact portion having a second contact point, in the up-down direction, configured to form the corrugated shape in the sheet, wherein the second contact point of the second contact portion is located downstream of the second nip point with respect to the conveying direction, wherein a distance along the conveying direction between the second nip point and the second contact point of the second contact portion is shorter than a distance along the conveying direction between the first nip point and the first contact point of the first contact portion with respect to the conveying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16071
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15978472', '14939334', '14225604', '15407503', '13628668']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.783270089341875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.560181212887976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7609612016964851
- Mean Citation Score: 424.278496
- Max Citation Score: 426.92587
- Similarity Product: 421.9467778666395

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

Dataset: test