PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "264000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a sheet feeding cassette, and a pickup roller positioned above and on a sheet feeding side of the sheet feeding cassette and rotatable to pick up a sheet that is in contact therewith from the sheet feeding cassette. The sheet feeding cassette includes a sheet tray on which a sheet bundle and a packaging member for the sheet bundle are to be accommodated, first and second guides for supporting lateral sides of the sheet bundle and the packaging member, and a first wall on the sheet feeding side of the sheet feeding cassette and a third guide spaced apart from the first wall to support the sheet bundle and the packaging member from a trailing edge side thereof. The height of the first wall is lower than a height of each of the first, second, and third guides.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a housing; a sheet feeding cassette inserted into the housing along a first direction so as to be removable from the housing in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a pickup roller that is positioned above and on a sheet feeding side of the sheet feeding cassette and rotatable to pick up a sheet that is in contact therewith from the sheet feeding cassette and convey the sheet in a third direction that crosses the first and second directions, wherein the sheet feeding cassette includes\n a sheet tray on which a sheet bundle and a packaging member for the sheet bundle are to be accommodated, \n first and second guides spaced apart in the first and second directions and between which the sheet bundle and the packaging member are to be accommodated, the first and second guides extending in the third direction to support lateral sides of the sheet bundle and the packaging member, and \n a first wall on the sheet feeding side of the sheet feeding cassette and a third guide spaced apart from the first wall in the third direction to support the sheet bundle and the packaging member from a trailing edge side thereof, wherein a height of the first wall is lower than a height of each of the first, second, and third guides.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56667
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15464660', '13317732', '13233511', '15710281', '12710397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7361753795290603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763440280599026
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7101922443821446
- Mean Citation Score: 187.162288
- Max Citation Score: 226.35216
- Similarity Product: 170.74560983333586

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test