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 7):
A printing apparatus, comprising:\n a head, including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink droplets of a photocurable ink to a print medium, the nozzles being arranged in a sub scanning direction orthogonal to a main scanning direction to form a nozzle row; a movement controller, configured to move the head in the main scanning direction, so as to perform a scan in the main scanning direction back and forth multiple times on an unit region which is predetermined and to move the head relative to the print medium in the sub scanning direction for each scan in the main scanning direction; light sources, configured to apply a light to the ink droplets to cure the ink droplets ejected to the print medium to form dots, the light sources being disposed on both sides in the main scanning direction of the head; and an ejection controller, configured to control ejection of the ink droplets such that, in a subsequent scan to form a surface layer of the unit region among the scan performed multiple times, 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): 0.7585240695869548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5255549153940956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7352271541676689
- Mean Citation Score: 336.876002
- Max Citation Score: 347.0651
- Similarity Product: 283.01939118343586

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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