PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a binding unit including a first portion and a second portion and configured to nip a sheet bundle between the first portion and the second portion to deform the sheet bundle in a thickness direction to bind the sheet bundle, and a detachment unit configured to push the bound sheet bundle toward the second portion to detach the bound sheet bundle from the first portion.

Claim (Index 15):
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:\n a first portion; a second portion configured to nip a sheet bundle together with the first portion so as to bind the sheet bundle; and an elastic member disposed on at least one portion of the first portion and the second portion, and configured to be deformed toward the other portion of the first portion and the second portion in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle as the first portion and the second portion are separated from each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14290838', '15684642', '15001725', '16055273', '14315836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7541752285121859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5744001188938441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7361977175503517
- Mean Citation Score: 445.436988
- Max Citation Score: 564.9762
- Similarity Product: 496.80364211275565

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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