PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780638
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A printing method and a printing apparatus are provided. The print quality of a printing apparatus in a multi-pass method is improved. A scan of applying light after ink droplets of photocurable ink land on a print medium and curing the ink droplets to form dots is performed on a predetermined unit region alternately in a forward direction and a backward direction multiple times. The time from landing of the ink droplets onto the print medium to curing differs between the forward direction and the backward direction. In a subsequent scan to form a surface layer of the unit region in the scan performed multiple times, an ejection controller controls ejection of the ink droplets such that the dots in the surface layer ejected to the print medium are not merged together.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing method, wherein after ink droplets of a photocurable ink are landed on a print medium, a scan of applying a light to cure the ink droplets to form dots is performed alternately in a forward direction and a backward direction with respect to an unit region which is predetermined, and a time from landing to curing of the ink droplets onto the print medium differs between the forward direction and the backward direction, and the printing method comprising:\n in a subsequent scan to form a surface layer of the unit region among the scan performed multiple times, ejection of the ink droplets is controlled such that the dots are formed at a density so that the dots in the surface layer are not in contact with each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19048
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10649956', '12241652', '12207947', '11617074', '09639743']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7585443698480132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5257048606905685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7352604189322688
- Mean Citation Score: 336.876002
- Max Citation Score: 347.0651
- Similarity Product: 280.31659212694166

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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