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 11):
An image forming system configured to form an image on a sheet and to perform a post-processing on the sheet, comprising:\n an image forming apparatus having an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet, and a sheet ejecting section configured to eject the sheets coming from the image forming section; and a sheet binding apparatus having a processing tray configured to hold sheets to be bound together; a sheet feeding section configured to receive the sheets from the sheet ejecting section of the image forming apparatus and to feed the sheets to the processing tray; a first binding unit capable of moving in the sheet width direction orthogonal to the direction of feeding the sheets and configured to perform needle binding on the sheets on the processing tray; a second binding unit provided at one side of the processing tray, as viewed in the widthwise direction of the sheets, and configured to perform non-needle binding on the sheets; a moving mechanism configured to move the first binding unit to a prescribed position at said one side of the processing tray; a first opening made in one end of that side of the processing tray and exposing at least one part of the first binding unit moved to the prescribed position; and a second opening made in the end of that side of the processing tray and exposing at least one part of the second binding unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6848634884407009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4531473184359547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6616918714402262
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 173.50969445293666

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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