PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116297
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "207000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharge device of the present invention includes discharge rollers configured to transport a sheet in a predetermined transport direction and to discharge the sheet to a discharge tray, and an upper discharge tray disposed above the discharge tray with a space being interposed therebetween. A bottom face of the upper discharge tray that faces the discharge tray includes a guide rib extending in an oblique direction inclined relative to the transport direction.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 9 ,\n wherein the cross rib extends along an edge portion of a downstream side edge of the bottom face of the upper member in the transport direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15294874', '12461995', '13216858', '12254347', '14391254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7472049176998936
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5609249877034715
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7285769247002515
- Mean Citation Score: 297.550726
- Max Citation Score: 484.95773
- Similarity Product: 341.2745276525289

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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