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 1):
A sheet discharge device to discharge and stack sheets onto a discharge tray sequentially comprising:\n a sheet discharge port through which a sheet is discharged; a conveying guide composed of a first conveying guide facing one side of the sheet and a second conveying guide facing an other side of the sheet, the conveying guide guiding the sheet to the sheet discharge port; discharge roller pairs provided close to the sheet discharge port and arranged at predetermined intervals in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet discharge direction; corrugation members arranged between the discharge roller pairs so as to protrude from a first conveying guide side to a second conveying guide side beyond a nip portion in the discharge roller pairs, the corrugation members stiffening the sheet by pressing one side of the sheet; and first biasing members supported on the first conveying guide, the first biasing members biasing the corrugation members in a protruding direction, wherein each of the corrugation members includes:\n a first pressing part arranged in a region extending from an upstream side of the discharge roller pairs to a downstream-side end part of the discharge roller pairs in the discharge direction and including the nip portion, the first pressing part making contact with one side of the sheet; \n a second pressing part arranged in a region further on a downstream side of the downstream-side end part of the discharge roller pairs in the discharge direction, the second pressing part making contact with one side of the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15346353', '14498683', '13628668', '14056506', '13853155']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7577012815094971
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688398536020101
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7288151387187484
- Mean Citation Score: 235.62772400000003
- Max Citation Score: 249.28015
- Similarity Product: 224.47519998112617

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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