PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["271", "003020"]

Abstract:
It is desirable to improve alignment of sheets discharged to a stack tray without increasing the size and cost of the apparatus. A stacking portion which is sloped so that a downstream side is higher than an upstream side in a sheet conveyance direction and on which a sheet discharged by a discharging portion is stacked and a plurality of rotation members which protrudes from an upper face of the stacking portion are provided. At least one of the plurality of rotation members rotates only in a direction opposite to the sheet conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 11):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 10 ,\n wherein the rotation members are disposed on each of the first stacking plane and the second stacking plane of the stacking portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73214
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12842891', '10940758', '13283239', '12490516', '11103589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7812596904358196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4961385690374706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7527475782959847
- Mean Citation Score: 240.8585
- Max Citation Score: 244.81807
- Similarity Product: 152.75496551189303

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