PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a sheet binding apparatus that comprises a first binding unit provided and a second binding unit configured to perform needle binding on sheets, and a second binding unit configured to perform non-needle binding on sheets. A needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set in the vicinity of the second binding unit.

Claim (Index 6):
A sheet binding apparatus comprising:\n a transporting section configured to transport sheets; a processing tray configured to hold the sheets transported from the transporting section; a first binding unit configured to perform needle binding on the sheets held on the processing tray; a second binding unit arranged at one end of the processing tray and configured to perform non-needle binding on the sheets held on the processing tray; a needle-replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit, the needle-replenishing position being located at one end of the processing tray and adjacent to the second binding unit; and a moving mechanism configured to move the first binding unit to the needle-replenishing position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6869843573113631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4428584436695251
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6625717659471793
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 194.74504890827183

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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