PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image forming device to form an image on a recording medium, a casing to accommodate the image forming device, a sheet discharging port through which the recording medium having the image is discharged from the casing, a sheet stacker to stack the recording medium output through the sheet discharging port and opening on one side of the apparatus body and surrounded by outer walls including an outer wall having the sheet discharging port, an air guide opening disposed within a sheet passing range in a width direction of the recording medium in a sheet conveying path through which the recording medium having the image passes from the image forming device to the sheet discharging port, and an air suction fan to discharge air passing through the air guide opening to an outside of the casing.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 6 , further comprising a guide configured to contact an upper portion of the recording medium,\n wherein the guide includes guide openings disposed at equal intervals in a sheet width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15637177', '15132371', '15058404', '14288560', '13780020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157125114575273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5234067223895538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.78648193255073
- Mean Citation Score: 267.736742
- Max Citation Score: 375.4167
- Similarity Product: 235.29147404447792

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test