PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["271", "306000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge roller pair composed of an upper roller and a lower roller; and a placement tray, arranged below the sheet discharge roller pair, configured to place a sheet discharged from the sheet discharge roller pair. The device further includes a sheet presser configured to be held on a sheet discharge side of the upper roller in a movable manner and pushed up by a sheet front end to be discharged, and depress a sheet rear end with the dead weight thereof after the sheet rear end passes through a nip between the sheet discharge roller pair. The device additionally includes an auxiliary tray that is movable between a first position where the sheet rear end depressed by the sheet presser is caught and a second position where the sheet rear end is released from the sheet presser.

Claim (Index 18):
The sheet discharge method according to  claim 12 , further comprising:\n forming the brake region by attaching at least one of a rubber material, a cork material, a felt material, or a foaming material to the auxiliary tray, or creating an embossed surface on the auxiliary tray.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15472906', '15702263', '15052656', '14957147', '15280276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7412100693137196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4910199253967002
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7161910549220177
- Mean Citation Score: 205.083154
- Max Citation Score: 230.53314
- Similarity Product: 145.20310518321634

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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