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 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the main chassis comprises a wall at one end thereof on the one side in the predetermined direction, the wall extending in the vertical direction and in an orthogonal being orthogonal to the predetermined direction; wherein the wall forms a part of the third discharge tray; and wherein the wall is pivotable at a lower end thereof about an axis extending in the orthogonal direction along with the third discharge tray.

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): 0.7936563526423212
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5317874549668351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7674694628747726
- Mean Citation Score: 313.190676
- Max Citation Score: 402.11627
- Similarity Product: 299.37598696093863

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