PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["270", "058120"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a first stack portion on which sheets conveyed are stacked, a first regulating portion which regulates a position of a sheet bundle in a crossing direction crossing to the sheet transport direction, a second regulating portion which regulates a position of a sheet bundle in the conveying direction, a first binding portion binding a corner portion of the sheet bundle by a staple, a second binding portion which binds a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple, a second stack portion which stacks a sheet bundle discharged from the first stack portion, and a lifting-lowering motor which lifts and lowers the second stack portion. The lifting-lowering motor is located at a downstream, in the conveying direction, of a first binding position where the first binding portion binds a sheet bundle.

Claim (Index 6):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming device which forms an image on a sheet; a first stack portion on which sheets conveyed in a conveying direction from the sheet forming device are stacked; a first regulating portion which regulates a position of a sheet bundle, stacked on the first stack portion, in a crossing direction crossing to the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the crossing direction; a second regulating portion which regulates a position of a sheet bundle, stacked on the first stack portion, in the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction; a first binding portion which moves in the crossing direction so that the first binding portion moves from a first side of the image forming apparatus to a second side of the image forming apparatus and moves from the second side to the first side, and binds a corner portion of the sheet bundle by a staple, the corner portion including an end where the first regulation portion has contacted and an end where the second regulation portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the first side of the sheet bundle; a second binding portion which binds a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple, the corner portion including an end where the first regulation portion has contacted and an end where the second regulation portion has contacted, the corner portion being on the first side of the sheet bundle; a discharging portion which discharges a sheet bundle stacked on the first stack portion in the conveying direction to discharge the sheet bundle from the first stack portion; a second stack portion which stacks a sheet bundle discharged from the first stack portion by the discharging portion, and moves in an up and down direction, and a lifting-lowering motor which lifts and lowers the second stack portion, the lifting-lowering motor being located at a downstream, in the conveying direction, of a first binding position where the first binding portion binds a sheet bundle stacked on the first stack portion, being located at a downstream, in the conveying direction, of a second binding position where the second binding portion binds a sheet bundle stacked on the first stack portion, and being located under a mounting surface where the first stack portion mounts the sheet bundle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15944413', '14326818', '14325882', '15630429', '14326864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7601367144398595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5336209836929621
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7374851413651697
- Mean Citation Score: 429.40053600000016
- Max Citation Score: 450.76807
- Similarity Product: 438.7651711843885

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

Dataset: test