PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162843
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["271", "009130"]

Abstract:
A sheet end position regulating device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a first contact body disposed movable on a sheet loading portion on which a sheet is loaded and configured to contact an end portion of the sheet, a fixing body disposed movable between a fixing position at which a position of the first contact body to the sheet loading portion is fixed and a releasing position at which the position of the first contact body is released, and a second contact body disposed movable between a contact position at which the fixing body contacts a contact target portion to regulate movement of the fixing body form the fixing position to the releasing position and a non-contact position at which the fixing body does not contact the contact target portion.

Claim (Index 10):
The sheet end position regulating device according to  claim 9 ,\n wherein, when the fixing body moves from the releasing position to the fixing position, the switching body starts switching to the first state after the fixing body has started to move, and wherein, when the fixing body moves from the fixing position to the releasing position, the switching body starts switching to the second state before the fixing body starts to move.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95745
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15783205', '15139790', '13356781', '10692794', '13784949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7795741782793272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896376010299902
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7505805205543935
- Mean Citation Score: 244.074788
- Max Citation Score: 249.34299
- Similarity Product: 175.5420415049386

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

Dataset: test