PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["270", "001010"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a stack portion on which sheets conveyed by the conveying portion are stacked, a first regulating portion regulating a position of a sheet bundle stacked on the stack portion in a crossing direction, a second regulating portion regulating a position of a sheet bundle on the stack portion in a conveying direction, a first binding device moved in the crossing direction and binding a corner portion of a sheet bundle by a staple, a second binding device binding a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple, and a controller positioning the first binding device and binding a corner portion of a sheet bundle by the first binding device. The controller also moves the second binding device and binds a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple by the second binding device.

Claim (Index 6):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a discharge portion which is configured to discharge a sheet bundle on the stack portion from the stack portion by moving the sheet bundle in the conveying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.68293
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16031601', '16023751', '15630429', '15944413', '14325882']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7633772793531591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5261590930179647
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7396554607196397
- Mean Citation Score: 397.006084
- Max Citation Score: 430.25735
- Similarity Product: 413.8114573129952

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

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