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 26):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 21 , wherein the positioning unit includes an aligning member provided to be movable in a width direction and configured to align a widthwise position of the sheets.

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): 0.7279136633574376
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5300262494921031
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.708124921970904
- Mean Citation Score: 376.641692
- Max Citation Score: 444.25882
- Similarity Product: 347.30450649350166

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