PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "314000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharge device has a sheet discharge port, a conveying guide, discharge roller pairs, corrugation members, and first biasing members, and discharges sheets onto a discharge tray sequentially. The corrugation members are arranged between the discharge roller pairs to protrude beyond a nip portion in them and stiffens the sheet by pressing one side of the sheet. The first biasing members bias the corrugation members in the protruding direction. Each of the corrugation members has, in a region extending from the upstream side to a downstream-side end part of the discharge roller pairs in the sheet discharge direction and including the nip portion, a first pressing part making contact with one side of the sheet and, in a region further on the downstream side of the downstream-side end part of the discharge roller pairs, a second pressing part making contact with one side of the sheet.

Claim (Index 7):
The sheet discharge device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the first pressing part has an inclined face inclining downward from the upstream side to the downstream side, a downstream-side end part of the inclined face protrudes to below the nip portion in the discharge roller pairs, and the second pressing part has a pressing face extending approximately horizontally from the downstream-side end part of the inclined face to a downstream side thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15346353', '14498683', '13628668', '14056506', '13853155']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7770355022370267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4829904452613775
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7476309965394617
- Mean Citation Score: 235.62772400000003
- Max Citation Score: 249.28015
- Similarity Product: 193.37400506184105

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