PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906146
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form is rotated in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. A sensor whose output is changed in accordance with a distance between the sensor and the sheet is used. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from an opposite direction to the forward direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus, comprising:\n a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form; a printing unit configured to perform printing on the sheet supplied from the holding unit; a driving unit configured, by rotating in a first direction, to rotate the roll sheet held in the holding unit in a forward direction and supply the sheet to the printing unit; a sensor configured to change an output in accordance with a distance to the sheet of the roll sheet held in the holding unit; and a control unit configured to rotate the driving unit in a second direction opposite to the first direction to rotate the sheet roll in an opposite direction, and to switch a rotation direction of the driving unit from the second direction to the first direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during the rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27027
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15903493', '15902509', '14939115', '14939018', '12965116']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7661712167428382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5083107095188464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.740385166020439
- Mean Citation Score: 238.50861
- Max Citation Score: 320.0188
- Similarity Product: 280.9025799379349

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

Dataset: test