PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["270", "058120"]

Abstract:
The postprocessing device includes: a stapling unit for stapling a sheet bundle with a staple; a discharge tray to which a bound sheet bundle bound with the staple is to be discharged; a moving member movable in both a direction of approaching the discharge tray and a direction of going away from the discharge tray; and a control section for, when the bound sheet bundle has been discharged, driving the moving member to execute a process of making the moving member hit against the bound sheet bundle or against the discharge tray.

Claim (Index 3):
The postprocessing device according to  claim 2 , further comprising\n a storage section for storing a predetermined threshold number of sheets, wherein when the bound sheet bundle whose number of bound sheets is less than the threshold number of sheets has been discharged to the discharge tray, the control section sets the number of hitting times to a predetermined first number of times; and when the bound sheet bundle whose number of bound sheets is not less than the threshold number of sheets has been discharged to the discharge tray, the control section sets the number of hitting times to a predetermined second number of times larger than the first number of times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02041
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15489412', '12038222', '10940758', '14091613', '11043051']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6476452338485863
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4655233580189213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6294330462656198
- Mean Citation Score: 213.516022
- Max Citation Score: 233.88953
- Similarity Product: 169.61077561115562

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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