PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a transfer drum, transfer sections arranged on a peripheral surface of the drum and moving cyclically on a circular orbit by rotation of the drum, a print unit, a liquid absorbing sheet of a peripheral length corresponding to an integer multiple or an integer fraction of a peripheral length of the circular orbit and absorbing a liquid component from the ink image, a driving unit moving the liquid absorbing sheet cyclically, a displacing unit displacing the liquid absorbing sheet between a contact state and a retracted state, and a control unit controlling, when displacing again the liquid absorbing sheet to the contact state, the driving unit so as to change combinations of the transfer sections and regions of the liquid absorbing sheet that respectively contact the transfer sections at a liquid absorbing position.

Claim (Index 12):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a cleaning unit configured to clean the transfer section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47458
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16018559', '16015958', '16015370', '15910444', '16020227']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7410412784256715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5223595362965976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.719173104212764
- Mean Citation Score: 295.824798
- Max Citation Score: 324.96362
- Similarity Product: 229.0925480378461

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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