PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16086413
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "179000"]

Abstract:
A thermal transfer printing apparatus including a feed roll feeding an ink ribbon during forward rotation, a thermal head performing a printing process that involves thermally transferring a color material onto first printing paper using the ink ribbon fed by the feed roll, and a recovery roll winding up the used ink ribbon during forward rotation, the used ink ribbon being the ink ribbon that has been subjected to the thermal transfer. After the feed roll and the recovery roll are rotated backward to rewind the used ink ribbon onto the feed roll, the used ink ribbon is fed from the feed roll and a color material is thermally transferred by the thermal head onto second printing paper based on a disturbance pattern. Because the disturbance pattern is superimposed on a residual image remaining on the ink ribbon, it is possible to prevent leakage of the residual image.

Claim (Index 15):
The thermal transfer printing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a storage unit storing print density information for each region of the ink ribbon, the region corresponding to one screen, the print density information indicating a print density in the printing process, wherein\n energy used when the thermal head thermally transfers the color material onto the second printing paper is regulated based on the print density information, and the residual-image erasing process is performed after completion of a printing process for all regions of the ink ribbon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32836
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11171261', '13955437', '12281268', '12922549', '13434051']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7204141958790514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493079101243262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6976806864154725
- Mean Citation Score: 233.139468
- Max Citation Score: 244.82079
- Similarity Product: 192.772767367816

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

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