PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image forming device to form an image on a recording medium, a casing to accommodate the image forming device, a sheet discharging port through which the recording medium having the image is discharged from the casing, a sheet stacker to stack the recording medium output through the sheet discharging port and opening on one side of the apparatus body and surrounded by outer walls including an outer wall having the sheet discharging port, an air guide opening disposed within a sheet passing range in a width direction of the recording medium in a sheet conveying path through which the recording medium having the image passes from the image forming device to the sheet discharging port, and an air suction fan to discharge air passing through the air guide opening to an outside of the casing.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a sheet passage configured to guide a recording medium; an image forming device configured to form an image on the recording medium; a casing configured to accommodate the image forming device; a sheet discharging port through which the recording medium having the image formed by the image forming device is discharged from the casing; a discharging port interior space disposed inside the casing and including a part of the sheet passage and the sheet discharging port; an air guide passage configured to guide air in the discharging port interior space to an outside of the casing; and an air exhauster disposed in the air guide passage and configured to exhaust the air to the outside of the casing, wherein the air guide passage is disposed extending from an air passage opening to an upstream side of a sheet conveying direction of the recording medium, and wherein the air exhauster is separated from the air passage opening in the sheet conveying direction of the recording medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15637177', '15132371', '15058404', '14288560', '13780020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8137923301945453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5242135799194143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7848344551670323
- Mean Citation Score: 267.736742
- Max Citation Score: 375.4167
- Similarity Product: 346.7840993605792

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

Dataset: test