PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus has a discharge portion and a guide member. The discharge portion has a space surrounded by wall surfaces of a chassis, and a side opening portion to open the space. The discharge portion receives a sheet to be discharged from a discharge port of the chassis, and houses the sheet in the space so that the sheet can be taken out from the side opening portion. The guide member is arranged at an end portion in the side opening portion, and extends toward upward from the rear side toward the front side of the chassis.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a chassis having a discharge port to discharge a sheet formed with an image in a first direction directing from a front side toward a rear side opposite to the front side; a discharge portion which has a space surrounded by wall surfaces of the chassis, and a side opening portion to open the space toward one direction out of second directions orthogonal to the first direction, receives the sheet to be discharged from the discharge port, and houses the sheet in the space so that the sheet can be taken out from the side opening portion; and a guide member which is arranged at an end portion at the front side in the side opening portion, extends along the first direction, and has an upper edge extending toward upward from the rear side toward the front side in the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15686
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13917971', '14498683', '13855418', '14493162', '14666709']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4400535844827764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4536144484566892
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4414096708801677
- Mean Citation Score: 145.56324999999995
- Max Citation Score: 147.04533
- Similarity Product: 127.84167801496088

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