PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116297
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "207000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharge device of the present invention includes discharge rollers configured to transport a sheet in a predetermined transport direction and to discharge the sheet to a discharge tray, and an upper discharge tray disposed above the discharge tray with a space being interposed therebetween. A bottom face of the upper discharge tray that faces the discharge tray includes a guide rib extending in an oblique direction inclined relative to the transport direction.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a sheet sorting unit configured to sort a sheet to be discharged by shifting the discharge rollers along an axial direction of the discharge rollers, wherein the at least one guide rib extends in or substantially in a sheet oblique movement direction of the sheet being transported in the transport direction by the discharge rollers while being shifted along the axial direction by the sheet sorting unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15294874', '12461995', '13216858', '12254347', '14391254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7157895190956205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5817939275209388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7023899599381525
- Mean Citation Score: 297.550726
- Max Citation Score: 484.95773
- Similarity Product: 471.6129935751533

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

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