PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16158806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["271", "293000"]

Abstract:
A sheet discharging apparatus includes a first detecting portion provided in an apparatus body and configured to detect a move of a movable member in a state where a movable tray is at an upper limit position in a moving direction of the movable tray, wherein a detection result of the first detecting portion changes depending on a position of the movable tray in the moving direction. In addition, a second detecting portion detects the position of the movable tray in the moving direction, and a control portion, in a case where the second detecting portion detects that the movable tray is at the upper limit position, determines whether a sheet is present on the movable tray based on the detection result of the first detecting portion. When the second detecting portion does not detect that the movable tray is at the upper limit position, the control portion determines that a sheet is present on the movable tray regardless of the detection result of the first detecting portion.

Claim (Index 25):
A sheet discharging apparatus comprising:\n an apparatus body; a discharge member provided in the apparatus body and configured to discharge a sheet; a movable tray movable with respect to the apparatus body and including a sheet supporting surface configured to support the sheet discharged by the discharge member; a movable member provided in the movable tray and configured to move by being pressed by the sheet supported on the sheet supporting surface; a detecting portion provided in the apparatus body and configured to detect a presence of the sheet supported on the sheet supporting surface; and an extension portion extending out of the movable tray toward the apparatus body and configured to move by being pressed by the movable member, wherein the apparatus body is provided with an opening portion through which the extension portion extends into the apparatus body, wherein the opening portion is formed such that the extension portion is movable along a moving direction of the movable tray within the apparatus body, and wherein the detecting portion is configured to detect a position of the movable member by detecting the extension portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.21818
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15613533', '14051562', '15176575', '15448835', '14012352']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.761010340364152
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5226306995748051
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7371723762852174
- Mean Citation Score: 247.095858
- Max Citation Score: 369.39847
- Similarity Product: 354.2252329249984

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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