PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["347", "104000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a first transporting portion provided in a first transport path; a support member configured to support the sheet; a recording portion; a plurality of contact portions configured to come into contact with the sheet; a plurality of support ribs; a second transporting portion provided in a second transport path connected with the first transport path; and a third transporting portion configured to sandwich and transport the sheet in the first transporting direction or toward the second transport path. On the upstream side to the second transporting portion in the second transporting direction, a projecting portion is formed with the upper guide member to project toward the lower guide member below a virtual line linking a nip position of the sheet due to the third transporting portion with another nip position of the sheet due to the second transporting portion.

Claim (Index 1):
An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising:\n a housing defining a first transport path through which a sheet is transported in a first transporting direction and a second transport path through which the sheet is transported in a second transporting direction; a pair of first transporting rollers provided in the first transport path, the pair of first transporting rollers configured to nip a sheet at a nip point between the pair of first transporting rollers and configured to transport the sheet in the first transporting direction; a recording portion provided downstream of the nip point in the first transporting direction in the first transport path, and including a nozzle that ejects ink droplets; a platen provided below the recording portion in the first transport path; a plate-shaped portion positioned at a gap between the recording portion and the platen, wherein the ink-jet recording apparatus is configured to transport the sheet between the plate-shaped portion and the platen, the plate-shaped portion having a free end, in the first transporting direction, also disposed between the recording portion and the platen; and a pair of second transporting rollers provided in the second transport path, the pair of second transporting rollers configured to nip the sheet at a nip point between the pair of second transporting rollers and configured to transport the sheet in the second transporting direction, wherein the second transport path intersects the first transport path at a first connection position and a second connection position, wherein the first connection position is located upstream of the nip point between the pair of first transporting rollers in the first transporting direction, wherein the second connection position is located downstream of the recording portion in the first transporting direction, wherein the second transport path extends toward the first connection position by passing below the platen from the second connection position, wherein the second transport path is a sheet return path through which the sheet is returned to the plate-shaped portion and the recording portion, wherein the second transport path includes a first path defined by a first surface of a guide member and a second path defined by a second surface of the guide member, wherein the second path connects the first path and the first connection position, wherein the first surface extends from the first end of the first surface toward a second end of the first surface along an imaginary straight line below the platen, wherein the second surface extends upward from the second end of the first surface, and wherein when viewed in a rotational axis direction of the nozzle of the recording portion and the free end of plate-shaped portion is positioned between a first imaginary vertical line passing through the first end of the first surface and a second imaginary vertical line passing through the second end of the first surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7069
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15457437', '15014455', '14190995', '14702942', '13629718']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7716458094915424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5550676687660175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7499879954189899
- Mean Citation Score: 392.486732
- Max Citation Score: 415.75336
- Similarity Product: 408.12145868816384

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

Dataset: test