PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052849
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["412", "006000"]

Abstract:
A paper binding apparatus includes a pair of guides between which a paper bundle connected body formed by applying an adhesive tape to edge portions of sheets that are overlapped in a thickness direction, is moved in a reference direction while pinching the paper bundle connected body in the thickness direction, a guide plate on one side of the paper bundle connected body and downstream of the pair of guides, the guide plate having at least one guide surface that causes the paper bundle connected body guided thereby to be bent, and a driving roller configure to rotate in a first direction to move the paper bundle connected body and to cause a leading edge of the paper bundle connected body to be guided and bent by the at least one guide surface and the edge portions of the sheets to be shifted from each other in the reference direction.

Claim (Index 14):
The method according to  claim 8 , further comprising:\n feeding adhesive tape from a roll; and cutting off a portion of the adhesive tape after the portion of the adhesive tape is placed below the edge portions of the plurality of sheets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34848
- Patent Class: 412.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14570631', '14570573', '13326442', '12528788', '12520942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5837894325046453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4927784176991027
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.574688331024091
- Mean Citation Score: 187.725282
- Max Citation Score: 201.58731
- Similarity Product: 143.42203937473838

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