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 12):
The thermal transfer printing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of disturbance pattern data, wherein\n in the residual-image erasing process, the color material is thermally transferred from the used ink ribbon onto the second printing paper based on one of the plurality of pieces of disturbance pattern data, and the residual-image erasing process is performed every time a printing process using a predetermined number of regions of the ink ribbon is performed, the region each corresponding to one screen.

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): 0.7195279439134097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4979616630269769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6973713158247664
- Mean Citation Score: 233.139468
- Max Citation Score: 244.82079
- Similarity Product: 180.6652167388397

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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