PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055273
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["270", "058120"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a binding portion binding a plurality of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking portion as a bundle by deforming the sheets without a staple. The sheet processing apparatus further includes a moving member moving the sheet bundle bound at a binding position by the binding portion from the binding position and a restricting member restricting the move of the sheet bundle such that a distance between the sheet bundle and the moving member is kept to be less than a predetermined distance in moving the sheet bundle by the moving member.

Claim (Index 21):
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:\n a conveyance portion configured to convey a sheet; a supporting portion on which sheets conveyed by the conveyance portion are supported as a sheet bundle; a binding portion comprising a plurality of tooth portions and configured to bind the sheet bundle supported on the supporting portion without a staple by pressing the sheet bundle with the tooth portions; a first aligning portion configured to be movable in a width direction orthogonal to a discharging direction in which the sheet bundle supported on the supporting portion is discharged, and to abut with a first end in the width direction of the sheet bundle; a second aligning portion configured to be movable in the width direction, and to abut with a second end, opposite to the first end in the width direction, of the sheet bundle; and a control portion configured to control the first and second aligning portions such that:\n a position of the sheet bundle supported on the supporting portion is aligned with a position, where the binding portion executes a binding process to the sheet bundle, by the first and second aligning portions, and \n after the binding portion binds the sheet bundle, the first aligning portion moves in a direction from a side where the first aligning portion is arranged toward a side where the second aligning portion is arranged and pushes the first end of the bound sheet bundle, \n wherein a position where the first aligning portion pushes the first end of the bound sheet bundle is different from a position where the binding portion binds the sheet bundle in the discharging direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17778
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14315836', '15001725', '14100131', '14727039', '14290838']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7141918811020388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5438123018900507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.69715392318084
- Mean Citation Score: 408.841792
- Max Citation Score: 478.9627
- Similarity Product: 403.5201515276372

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

Dataset: test