PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "225000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including a main chassis having a discharge tray and a switchback tray in an upper position with respect to the discharge tray; an image forming unit; a discharge roller to discharge a recording sheet conveyed through the image forming unit onto the discharge tray; a duplex conveyer to invert the sheet and convey the inverted sheet to return to the image forming unit; and a switchback roller being rotatable in a normal direction to convey the sheet toward the switchback tray and a reverse direction to convey the sheet to the duplex conveyer; is provided. The main chassis includes a pair of walls, each of which extends in a vertical direction and in a conveying direction of the sheet and is arranged in adjacent to the switchback tray such that the switchback tray is interposed between the pair of walls.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein an upper part of the third discharge tray inclines with respect to the vertical direction toward another side of the main chassis opposite to the one side in the predetermined direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15423264', '14884069', '13606128', '14865290', '14865328']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7940370884875639
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5310081851390036
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7677341981527079
- Mean Citation Score: 313.190676
- Max Citation Score: 402.11627
- Similarity Product: 285.96946362948887

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