PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742033
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["347", "039000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes six or more inkjet heads, a carriage that is a head holder to hold a plurality of inkjet heads, a main scanning driver, and a sub-scanning driver. The carriage dividedly holds a plurality of inkjet heads in a plurality of arrays including at least a first array in which a plurality of inkjet heads are disposed side by side in a main scanning direction, and a second array in which a plurality of inkjet heads are disposed side by side in the main scanning direction while being dislocated in a sub-scanning direction with respect to the first array. Merely not more than two inkjet heads in the first array ejects an ink droplet, and merely not more than two inkjet heads in the second array ejects an ink droplet with respect to a position of each pixel in a single time of a main scanning operation.

Claim (Index 12):
A printing method for printing on a medium by inkjet technology of using the printing apparatus according to  claim 11 , the printing method comprising:\n holding six or more inkjet heads configured to eject mutually different color ink droplets by inkjet technology while being faced to the medium; causing the inkjet heads to perform a main scanning operation to eject an ink droplet while moving relative to the medium in a main scanning direction which is present; dividedly holding the six or more inkjet heads in a plurality of arrays comprising at least a first group and a second group in each of which the inkjet heads are disposed side by side in the main scanning direction; and enabling setting, as a printing mode executed, a first printing mode for printing using both of a plurality of inkjet heads disposed side by side in the first group and a plurality of inkjet heads disposed side by side in the second group, and a second printing mode for performing printing using a plurality of inkjet heads disposed side by side in the first group without using a plurality of inkjet heads disposed side by side in the second group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46875
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16061342', '14467067', '10932021', '14283224', '11093278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7746945509264495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506109002502517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7478359960840563
- Mean Citation Score: 290.022462
- Max Citation Score: 306.36124
- Similarity Product: 240.9035856285286

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

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