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 7):
The sheet processing apparatus according to  claim 6 ,\n wherein the second binding portion includes a first face having a plurality of projections and a second face having a plurality of concave grooves matching the plurality of projections, and the sheet bundle is bound by being nipped between the first face and the second face, and the sheet bundle is formed with a plurality of signs corresponding to the plurality of projections arranged side by side in a direction inclined to the crossing direction when a corner portion of the sheet bundle is bound by the second binding device and the corner portion includes an end where the first regulation portion has contacted and an end where the second regulation portion has contacted, and the corner portion is on the first side of the sheet bundle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15944413', '14326818', '14325882', '15630429', '14326864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7816442048308504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343884801527028
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7569186323630357
- Mean Citation Score: 429.40053600000016
- Max Citation Score: 450.76807
- Similarity Product: 427.53080094194894

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

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