PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["270", "058090"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus in which a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets discharged onto an intermediate processing tray is received in a receiving portion of a stapler and bound with use of a staple, and a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets discharged onto the intermediate processing tray is received in a receiving portion of a staple-less binding unit having a gap in the thickness direction of the sheets smaller than that of the receiving portion of the stapler and bound without using a staple, wherein when the stapler performs the binding process, the staple-less binding unit is arranged in a position shifted in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet discharge direction from a region on the intermediate processing tray, through which the sheets discharged by a sheet discharging portion pass.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet processing apparatus, comprising:\n a sheet stacking portion arranged to receive sheets; a sheet discharging portion configured to discharge the sheets onto the sheet stacking portion; a first binding unit including a first receiving portion having a gap in a thickness direction of the sheets and being configured to receive the sheets discharged onto the sheet stacking portion by the sheet discharging portion, the first binding unit being configured to perform a binding process, using a staple, on a sheet bundle including a plurality of the sheets received in the gap of the first receiving portion; a second binding unit including a second receiving portion having a gap in a thickness direction of the sheets, the gap being smaller than the gap of the first receiving portion, the second binding unit being configured to perform a binding process, without using a staple, on a sheet bundle including a plurality of the sheets received in the gap of the second receiving portion; and a moving unit configured to move a sheet, discharged onto the sheet stacking portion, wherein, in the case that a sheet is moved into the first receiving portion, the second binding unit is arranged in a position at which the sheets moved into the first receiving portion by the moving unit do not enter the second receiving portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14031116', '14727039', '15874219', '14100131', '15867944']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7520075335074534
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930691088109238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7261136910378005
- Mean Citation Score: 343.8143320000001
- Max Citation Score: 374.9196
- Similarity Product: 371.64586127471927

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

Dataset: test