PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16158806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["271", "293000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharging apparatus includes a first detecting portion provided in an apparatus body and configured to detect a move of a movable member in a state where a movable tray is at an upper limit position in a moving direction of the movable tray, wherein a detection result of the first detecting portion changes depending on a position of the movable tray in the moving direction. In addition, a second detecting portion detects the position of the movable tray in the moving direction, and a control portion, in a case where the second detecting portion detects that the movable tray is at the upper limit position, determines whether a sheet is present on the movable tray based on the detection result of the first detecting portion. When the second detecting portion does not detect that the movable tray is at the upper limit position, the control portion determines that a sheet is present on the movable tray regardless of the detection result of the first detecting portion.

Claim (Index 23):
The sheet discharging apparatus according to  claim 19 , wherein the opening portion defines a slit formed along the moving direction of the movable tray.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.21818
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15613533', '14051562', '15176575', '15448835', '14012352']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.782850583141692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5252013380064839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7570856586281711
- Mean Citation Score: 247.095858
- Max Citation Score: 369.39847
- Similarity Product: 301.51065601812

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