PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16080804
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "104000"]

Abstract:
A tablet printing device ( 1 ) has a conveying disk (C) that conveys a tablet ( 3 ) while sucking and supporting a side surface ( 5 ) of the tablet ( 3 ) and inkjet heads ( 4 ) and ( 6 ) capable of applying print processing to the side surface ( 5 ) and front and back surfaces ( 7 a ) and ( 7 b ) of the tablet ( 3 ) conveyed by the conveying disk (C). The tablet ( 3 ) is transferred from a conveying disk (A) to a conveying disk (B) at a tablet delivery part ( 8 a ) and transferred from the conveying disk (B) to the conveying disk (C) at a tablet delivery part ( 8 b ). The tablet ( 3 ) is sucked to and supported by a suction hole ( 28 ) formed in an end surface (Xc) of the conveying disk (C) with a large part of the side surface ( 5 ) and the entire front and back surfaces ( 7 a ) and ( 7 b ) thereof exposed. A tablet provider name or the like is printed on the side surface ( 5 ) of the tablet ( 3 ) by the inkjet head ( 4 ), and an active ingredient name and/or volume are/is printed on the front and back surfaces ( 7 a ) and ( 7 b ).

Claim (Index 7):
A tablet printing method characterized by comprising:\n conveying a tablet while supporting the tablet by a conveying unit provided with a tablet holding part having a width smaller than the maximum diameter of the tablet; and applying print processing to the side surface of the tablet conveyed by the conveying unit by using a printing unit disposed in proximity to the conveying unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34615
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15752759', '16017397', '15897513', '15567789', '14114950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.741632811519988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5028031661731435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7177498469853035
- Mean Citation Score: 214.67528
- Max Citation Score: 292.3479
- Similarity Product: 229.8289294086277

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

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