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 19):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 17 , wherein the edge of the sheets deformed by being crimped by the first and second surfaces in the first mode is a first edge, and the area of the sheets being deformed by being crimped by the first and second surfaces in the first mode includes both the first edge and a second edge neighboring the first edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35849
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14100131', '15068850', '15001725', '14427184', '14315836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7283453187468603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.528938516378802
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7084046385100544
- Mean Citation Score: 376.641692
- Max Citation Score: 444.25882
- Similarity Product: 338.6769349287605

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

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