PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "101000"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment of this invention, liquid absorption performance of a liquid absorbing member is satisfactorily maintained while suppressing utilization of a moisturizing liquid. More specifically, before an ink image formed on a transfer member by ink discharged from a printhead is transferred, a cyclically movable liquid absorbing member absorbs a liquid component from the ink image formed on the transfer member. On the other hand, a recovery unit arranged on a moving path of the liquid absorbing member recovers absorption performance of the liquid absorbing member by applying the moisturizing liquid to the liquid absorbing member. When applying the moisturizing liquid, a condition on the surface of the liquid absorbing member is estimated and based on a result of the estimation, an application amount of the moisturizing liquid by the recovery unit is controlled.

Claim (Index 16):
The apparatus according to  claim 15 , wherein the recovery unit includes:\n a reservoir configured to reserve the moisturizing liquid; a roller immersed in the moisturizing liquid of the reservoir and configured to keep the moisturizing liquid; and a first moving mechanism configured to bring the roller into contact with the liquid absorbing member in order to apply the moisturizing liquid to the liquid absorbing member or separate the roller from the liquid absorbing member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39344
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15920838', '15910444', '15906296', '15906156', '15920823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.746375010994435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5287593146533226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7246134413603238
- Mean Citation Score: 264.163268
- Max Citation Score: 339.8778
- Similarity Product: 249.1451890527248

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