PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a sheet binding apparatus that comprises a first binding unit provided and a second binding unit configured to perform needle binding on sheets, and a second binding unit configured to perform non-needle binding on sheets. A needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set in the vicinity of the second binding unit.

Claim (Index 4):
The sheet binding apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein a first opening for allowing an access to the first binding unit is made in one side of the sheet binding apparatus, and a second opening for allowing an access to the second binding unit is made in the front of the sheet binding apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7113944295657261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4480264818976736
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6850576347989208
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 188.75841925023795

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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