PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
A binding device includes a receptacle, an aligner, a moving mechanism, first and second binders, and a guide. The aligner aligns a bundle of recording media in a width direction thereof on the receptacle. The moving mechanism moves the aligner in the width direction. A maximum thickness of the bundle of recording media boundable in the second binder is smaller than that in the first binder. The guide is movable conforming to the maximum thickness of the bundle of recording media boundable in the first binder, and conforming to that in the second binder, to guide and direct the bundle of recording media to a receiving portion of the first binder when the first binder binds the bundle of recording media, and to a receiving portion of the second binder when the second binder binds the bundle of recording media, respectively. The guide is movable in conjunction with the aligner.

Claim (Index 3):
The binding device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the guide is rotatable about a pivot, and wherein the aligner moved by the moving mechanism in the width direction of the bundle of recording media pushes and rotates the guide about the pivot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34694
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15423689', '13316916', '13313659', '11727949', '13064671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7040294428214248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4748848865354282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6811149871928251
- Mean Citation Score: 207.833628
- Max Citation Score: 248.77211
- Similarity Product: 155.74342245535377

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

Dataset: test