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 9):
The sheet binding apparatus according to  claim 8 , which further comprises a shift mechanism configured to shift the sheets on the processing tray, to one end or other end of the processing tray, and in which the shift mechanism shifts the sheets to one end of the processing tray so that the second binding unit may bind the sheets, and to the other of the processing tray so that the first binding unit may bind the sheets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7111967133965926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4490329267192468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6849803347288581
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 186.6817099636388

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