PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055273
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["270", "058120"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a binding portion binding a plurality of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking portion as a bundle by deforming the sheets without a staple. The sheet processing apparatus further includes a moving member moving the sheet bundle bound at a binding position by the binding portion from the binding position and a restricting member restricting the move of the sheet bundle such that a distance between the sheet bundle and the moving member is kept to be less than a predetermined distance in moving the sheet bundle by the moving member.

Claim (Index 25):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 21 , further comprising a rear end abutting portion configured to abut with a rear end, in the discharging direction, of the sheet bundle supported on the supporting portion,\n wherein the control portion is configured to control the rear end abutting portion such that:\n the rear end abutting portion moves the sheet bundle so as a position in the discharging direction of the sheet bundle to be a position where the binding portion binds the sheet bundle, and \n after the binding portion binds the sheet bundle, the rear end abutting portion separates from the rear end of the bound sheet bundle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17778
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14315836', '15001725', '14100131', '14727039', '14290838']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7161604539660857
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5383914964792856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6983835582174057
- Mean Citation Score: 408.841792
- Max Citation Score: 478.9627
- Similarity Product: 372.0892749213159

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

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