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 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the at least one guide rib is inclined so that a length of the at least one guide rib in the direction from the bottom face of the upper member toward the discharge tray gradually increases from the upstream side to the downstream side in the transport direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15294874', '12461995', '13216858', '12254347', '14391254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7453106084521794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5665624734576724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7274357949527288
- Mean Citation Score: 297.550726
- Max Citation Score: 484.95773
- Similarity Product: 372.9187033290542

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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