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 30):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet; a supporting portion on which sheets, each of which has an image formed thereon by the image forming portion, are supported; a binding portion including a first member with a first surface on which a concave-convex portion is provided and a second member with a second surface on which a concave-convex portion is provided and which is engaged with the first surface, the binding portion being configured to bind the sheets disposed between the first and second members by crimping the sheets using the first and second surfaces; and a control portion configured to execute a plurality of modes including first and second modes, an area of the sheets being deformed by being crimped by the first and second surfaces including an edge of the sheets in a case where the first mode is executed, and an area of the sheets being deformed by being crimped by the first and second surfaces not including an edge of the sheets in a case where the second mode is executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35849
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14100131', '15068850', '15001725', '14427184', '14315836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7007414422403532
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5348915648964891
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6841564545059667
- Mean Citation Score: 376.641692
- Max Citation Score: 444.25882
- Similarity Product: 404.0854122470224

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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