PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "279000"]

Abstract:
A conveying apparatus, including: a conveyor mechanism; a housing; a first tray configured to receive a medium conveyed by the conveyor mechanism; an image reader disposed above the first tray, wherein a first discharge opening for discharging the medium outside the housing is formed in an upper surface of the housing so as not to overlap the image reader when viewed from above, and wherein the conveying apparatus further includes: a switcher for switching a destination of the medium selectively between the first tray and the first discharge opening; and a tray unit removably mountable on the upper surface of the housing and including a first introduction opening opposed to the first discharge opening, a second conveyance path for conveying the medium passed the first discharge opening and the first introduction opening, and at least one second tray for receiving the medium conveyed through the second conveyance path.

Claim (Index 9):
A conveying apparatus, comprising:\n a conveyor mechanism configured to convey a medium through a first conveyance path; a housing that houses the conveyor mechanism; a first tray configured to receive the medium conveyed by the conveyor mechanism; an image reader disposed above the first tray, wherein a first discharge opening is formed in an upper surface of the housing so as not to overlap the image reader when viewed from above, the medium conveyed by the conveyor mechanism being discharged outside the housing from the first discharge opening, wherein the conveying apparatus further comprises:\n a switcher configured to switch a destination of the medium selectively between the first tray and the first discharge opening; and \n a tray unit including a first introduction opening opposed to the first discharge opening, a second conveyance path through which the medium that has passed through the first discharge opening and the first introduction opening is conveyed, and at least one second tray configured to receive the medium that has been conveyed through the second conveyance path, \n wherein the housing includes: a first housing in which is formed a third conveyance path as a part of the first conveyance path; and a second housing in which is formed a fourth conveyance path as a part of the first conveyance path and which is disposed above the first housing, the first discharge opening being formed in an upper surface of the second housing as the upper surface of the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15710066', '15710206', '14198715', '14568272', '15083841']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.721024116498114
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5221973167210341
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7011414365204061
- Mean Citation Score: 267.26001800000006
- Max Citation Score: 359.6654
- Similarity Product: 346.36648374623064

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

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