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 8):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming device which forms an image on a sheet, a stack portion on which sheets conveyed in a conveying direction from the image forming device are stacked; a first regulating portion which is configured to regulate a position of a sheet bundle stacked on the stack portion, the first regulating portion regulating the position of the sheet bundle in a crossing direction crossing the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the crossing direction; a second regulating portion which is configured to regulate a position of a sheet bundle, stacked on the stack portion, in the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction; a first binding device which is configured to move in the crossing direction so that the first binding device moves from a first side of the sheet processing apparatus to a second side of the sheet processing apparatus and moves from the second side to the first side, and which is configured to bind a corner portion of a sheet bundle by a staple at a first position, the corner portion including an end where the first regulating portion has contacted and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the first side of the sheet bundle, the first binding device being configured to bind a corner portion of a sheet bundle, which is stacked on the stack portion, by a staple at a second position, the corner portion including an end which is on the second side of the sheet bundle which is stacked on the stack portion and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the second side of the sheet bundle; a second binding device which is configured to bind a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple, the corner portion including an end where the first regulating portion has contacted and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the first side of the sheet bundle, the second binding device including a first pressurizing portion and a second pressurizing portion, the first pressurizing portion and the second pressurizing portion sandwiching the sheet bundle in a case that the second binding device binds the sheet bundle, the first pressurizing portion and the second pressurizing portion being configured to move integrally, the second binding device being movable on the first side of the second position relative to the crossing direction, the second binding device not moving to the second side of the second position relative to the crossing direction; and a controller configured to the first binding device to move in the crossing direction, the controller being configured to bind a corner portion of a sheet bundle by the first binding device, the corner portion including an end where the first regulating portion has contacted and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the first side of the sheet bundle, the controller being configured to bind a corner portion of a sheet bundle, which is stacked on the stack portion, by the first binding device, the corner portion including an end which is on the second side of the sheet bundle which is stacked on the stack portion and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the second side of the sheet bundle, the controller being configured to bind a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple by the second binding device, the corner portion including an end where the first regulating portion has contacted and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the first side of the sheet bundle, the controller being configured to move the second binding device on the first side of the second position relative to the crossing direction, the controller not to move the second binding device on the second side of the second position relative to the crossing 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): 0.7629428018492086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5272661889588842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7393751405601763
- Mean Citation Score: 397.006084
- Max Citation Score: 430.25735
- Similarity Product: 424.35017754323775

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

Dataset: test