PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus has a discharge portion and a guide member. The discharge portion has a space surrounded by wall surfaces of a chassis, and a side opening portion to open the space. The discharge portion receives a sheet to be discharged from a discharge port of the chassis, and houses the sheet in the space so that the sheet can be taken out from the side opening portion. The guide member is arranged at an end portion in the side opening portion, and extends toward upward from the rear side toward the front side of the chassis.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 6 , further comprising:\n a first sensor to detect lifting of the sheet housed in the discharge portion; and a controller to control the drive source based on a detection result of the first sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15686
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13917971', '14498683', '13855418', '14493162', '14666709']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.431497398150324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4859096601526271
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4369386243505543
- Mean Citation Score: 145.56324999999995
- Max Citation Score: 147.04533
- Similarity Product: 100.54908567170264

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test