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 14):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n an image reading unit configured to read an original so as to generate image data; and an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording sheet, the image forming unit being disposed under the image reading unit, wherein the discharge tray and the upper member are disposed in a space between the image reading unit and the image forming unit, and wherein the recording sheet on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit is discharged onto either one of the discharge tray and the upper member.

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): 0.7211552708680767
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5669351439074121
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7057332581720103
- Mean Citation Score: 297.550726
- Max Citation Score: 484.95773
- Similarity Product: 387.7022804367775

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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