PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["271", "288000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a discharging roller pair, a plurality of trays, a guide member, and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on each of a plurality of sheets. The discharging roller pair discharges each of the sheets. The sheets discharged by the discharging roller pair are to be stacked on the trays (first through third trays). The guide member guides each of the sheets from the discharging roller pair toward a discharge destination tray among the plurality of trays. Every time the discharging roller pair discharges one of the sheets, the controller controls the guide member to change the discharge destination tray. The trays are configured such that leading ends of the sheets are superposed on one another.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n at least one of the trays has a length in the discharge direction that is shorter than a length of each of the recording mediums in the discharge direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47368
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12497942', '11177121', '09737280', '15070228', '15055587']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7615849023191198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876728429377479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7341936963809825
- Mean Citation Score: 198.347644
- Max Citation Score: 227.95908
- Similarity Product: 154.16740536765576

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