PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862395
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that utilizes a communication device is disclosed. A communication unit of a housing which corresponds to an antenna portion is provided at a position at which the communication unit can be seen without obstruction from the upper side. A communication device such as a smartphone can be brought close to or into contact with the communication unit readily. Accordingly, wireless communication between the antenna portion and the communication device can be established.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming portion; a housing accommodating the image forming portion and having a discharge tray at an upper portion of the housing, the discharge tray being configured to receive a discharged sheet having an image formed by the image forming portion; and an antenna device disposed in the housing and for establishing a near field communication, the antenna device being outside the discharge tray in a direction perpendicular to a discharging direction of discharging the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15349049', '13852795', '15797946', '15398323', '14090481']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4860925056735504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4779284785224503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4852761029584404
- Mean Citation Score: 155.02250799999996
- Max Citation Score: 188.5296
- Similarity Product: 143.60408153171542

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

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