PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "194000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a thermal head and a processor. The thermal head has heat-generating elements and prints on a plurality of lines in a medium in setting periods. The processor sets a second period within each setting period. The second period is a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the heat-generating elements without printing, after a first period for printing. The processor determines a n th  line (n: an integer of 1 or greater) among the lines based on printing data for printing the image. The n th  line is a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking on the medium by the thermal head. The processor adjusts a temperature change of at least a part of the heat-generating elements in the second periods corresponding to at least the n th  line and a (n+1) th  line, to suppress the sticking.

Claim (Index 14):
A printing system comprising:\n a printing apparatus that includes a thermal head configured to print an image on a plurality of lines in a medium, a head driving unit configured to drive the thermal head, and a processor, and a computer that is provided separately from the printing apparatus, wherein the thermal head includes a plurality of heat-generating elements configured to generate heat when a voltage is applied thereto, and the thermal head is controlled to print on the plurality of lines in the medium in setting periods, wherein the processor is configured to: set a second period within each of the setting periods, the second period being a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the plurality of heat-generating elements of the thermal head without printing on the medium, and the second period being set to a timing after a first period in the each of the setting periods, the first period being a time period for printing on the medium, drive the thermal head by the head driving unit, based on printing data for printing the plurality of lines and countermeasure data generated at the computer, and wherein the computer is configured to: determine a n th  line (n: an integer of 1 or greater) among the plurality of lines based on printing data for printing the image, the n th  line being a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking the thermal head to the medium, and generate the countermeasure data for adjusting a temperature change of at least a part of the plurality of heat-generating elements in the second periods of at least two lines as a target line group so as to suppress the sticking, the at least two lines including the n th  line and a (n+1) th  line which is to be printed immediately after printing of the n th  line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15677608', '15694570', '15699093', '13051492', '13029679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7450478647568926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4701358318600273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.717556661467206
- Mean Citation Score: 186.84288
- Max Citation Score: 224.39351
- Similarity Product: 194.93506201565145

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

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