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 4):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein in a case that the first binding device binds a corner portion of a sheet bundle, the controller causes the second binding device to be positioned on the first side relative to an end of the first side of the sheet bundle, and on the first side relative to the first binding device, wherein the corner portion includes an end where the first regulating portion has contacted and an end where the second regulating portion has contacted, and the corner portion is on the first side of the sheet bundle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.68293
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16031601', '16023751', '15630429', '15944413', '14325882']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7838512136982528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5293320590151683
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7583992982299445
- Mean Citation Score: 397.006084
- Max Citation Score: 430.25735
- Similarity Product: 422.21081792634135

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