PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15769195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["412", "039000"]

Abstract:
A binding component holding sheet is configured to detachably hold a binding component obtained by spirally winding a wire rod and includes a holder configured to hold the binding component by insertion of a circumferential portion of the spirally wound binding component. The holder is configured to hold the binding component so that an area greater than a half of the binding component in a circumferential direction protrudes to one side of the binding component holding sheet and an area less than the half of the binding component in the circumferential direction protrudes to the other side of the binding component holding sheet.

Claim (Index 12):
A bookbinding apparatus configured to bind sheets having a plurality of holes formed therein in one row by a binding component obtained by spirally winding a wire rod, the bookbinding apparatus comprising:\n a sheet conveyance path configured to convey a sheet processed in an image forming apparatus; a hole forming unit configured to form a plurality of holes in one row at an end portion of a sheet to be conveyed on the sheet conveyance path; a sheet aligning unit configured to stack and align a plurality of sheets having holes formed in the hole forming unit; a binding mechanism configured to bind the sheets aligned in the sheet aligning unit by conveying the binding component in an axial direction of the binding component while rotating the binding component in a circumferential direction; a binding component storing unit configured to store therein a binding component holding sheet having a plurality of binding components held thereto; the binding component separation mechanism according to  claim 7  configured to separate the binding component from the binding component holding sheet, and a booklet discharging unit configured to discharge a booklet bound with the binding component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 412.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12147431', '11743166', '12732332', '11849299', '14808663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6005766238329122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737905061920941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5878980120688304
- Mean Citation Score: 210.413826
- Max Citation Score: 213.28864
- Similarity Product: 189.7555158026886

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test