PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919857
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "314000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharging device has a discharge roller pair and a sheet discharge tray arranged selectively either in a first position where the sheet discharge tray is stowed along a side surface of an apparatus main body or in a second position where the sheet discharge tray, swung downward from the first position, protrudes beyond the side surface. The sheet discharge tray has a hook member holding, with one of rotation shafts of the discharge roller pair acting as an engagement shaft, the sheet discharge tray in the first position by engaging with the engagement shaft. As a result of the discharge roller pair being rotated with the sheet discharge tray located in the first position, an engagement releasing member fixed to the engagement shaft releases the engagement of the hook member with the engagement shaft, and the sheet discharge tray moves to the second position.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus of  claim 6 , further comprising:\n a motor which drives the discharge roller pair to rotate; and a controller which controls the motor, wherein when a print instruction including discharging operation which discharges the sheet to the sheet discharge tray is executed, the controller drives the motor to rotate the discharge roller pair, and thereby makes the sheet discharge tray pivot from the first position to the second position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12254347', '10015634', '13633539', '12802000', '14012437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7301636709381301
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4947427782583642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7066215816701535
- Mean Citation Score: 255.01981400000005
- Max Citation Score: 256.98886
- Similarity Product: 185.12925413617847

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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