PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939336
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "207000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is an in-body sheet discharge type image forming apparatus including an image forming portion and an image reading portion that is arranged above the image forming portion. The image forming apparatus comprises a sheet discharge tray and an operating panel. The sheet discharge tray is provided in an in-body sheet discharge portion between the image forming portion and the image reading station. On the sheet discharge tray, a sheet having been formed with an image by the image forming unit is discharged. The operating panel is provided on a front side of the sheet discharge tray. A part of a rear side of the operating panel overlaps with a sheet placement area having a front edge that is set on a front side compared to a rear end portion of the sheet discharge tray.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the operating portion is provided on a front descending inclined portion formed between a sheet placement surface of the sheet discharge tray and the image forming portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73585
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11083105', '12805074', '13527737', '15544169', '12591683']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.763737457877604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4708564721172671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7344493593015704
- Mean Citation Score: 193.529332
- Max Citation Score: 206.37039
- Similarity Product: 157.78817580949902

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

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