PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867944
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["270", "058070"]

Abstract:
A staple-less binding unit including a pair of upper and lower teeth binds a sheet bundle which is discharged to an intermediate processing tray by a sheet discharge portion and whose one edge abuts against a rear edge stopper. A control portion switches a binding mode of the staple-less binding unit that implements the binding process on the sheet bundle in a first binding mode of binding the sheet bundle without any staple such that the pair of upper and lower teeth bite across an edge of the sheet bundle and in a second binding mode of binding the sheet bundle without any staple such that the pair of upper and lower teeth do not bite across any edge of the sheet bundle.

Claim (Index 31):
A sheet processing apparatus, comprising:\n a supporting portion on which sheets are supported; a first member with a first surface on which a concave-convex portion is provided; a second member with a second surface on which a concave-convex portion is provided; and a positioning unit configured to position the sheets supported on the supporting portion by contacting at least one edge of the sheets, wherein the first and second surfaces crimp and bind the sheets which are positioned by the positioning unit and disposed between the first and second members, wherein a relative position between the first surface and the positioning unit can be set such that an area of the sheets being deformed by being crimped using the first and second surfaces includes an edge of the sheets, and wherein the relative position between the first surface and the positioning unit can be set such that an area of the sheets being deformed by being crimped using the first and second surfaces does not includes the edge of the sheets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35849
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14100131', '15068850', '15001725', '14427184', '14315836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7007199532195315
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5349425147936012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6841422093769385
- Mean Citation Score: 376.641692
- Max Citation Score: 444.25882
- Similarity Product: 404.4903691918612

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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