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 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a sheet sorting unit configured to sort a sheet to be discharged by shifting the discharge rollers along an axial direction of the discharge rollers, wherein the at least one guide rib is located inside a side edge of the sheet in the axial direction, the sheet being transported in the transport direction by the discharge rollers while being shifted along the axial direction by the sheet sorting unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15294874', '12461995', '13216858', '12254347', '14391254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7156167705376438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5822672614157431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7022818196254538
- Mean Citation Score: 297.550726
- Max Citation Score: 484.95773
- Similarity Product: 474.2988275894744

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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