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 20):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 17 , further comprising a positioning unit configured to position the sheets supported on the supporting portion by contacting at least one edge of the sheets,\n wherein the binding portion is configured to bind the sheets, which is positioned by the positioning unit, by crimping the sheets using the first and second surfaces, and wherein a relative position between the first surface and the positioning unit in the first mode is different from that in the second mode.

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): 0.7028565151404413
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5298529323869549
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6855561568650927
- Mean Citation Score: 376.641692
- Max Citation Score: 444.25882
- Similarity Product: 364.09217365985154

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

Dataset: test