PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "037000"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus (an ink jet printer  100 ), in a sub scanning direction, when an area in arrange of a nozzle at an end portion of a head ( 41 ) to a nozzle at a predetermined distance is set as a predetermined area, and a medium is transported in a certain amount by using the head ( 41 ), a scan portion, and a transport portion so as to form an image on medium sheet ( 10 ), the number of times of scanning for forming a dot array which is formed by using the nozzles included in the predetermined area is more than the number of times of the scanning for forming a dot array which does not use the nozzle in the predetermined area, and the number of times of the scanning for forming the dot array by using the nozzles included in the predetermined area is at least three times.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein a first length of the first region on the medium in the sub scanning direction is shorter than a second length of the second region on the medium in the sub scanning direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55385
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15509671', '15142335', '14920248', '15297677', '15334435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7463094616634541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5240317310389482
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7240816886010036
- Mean Citation Score: 259.262482
- Max Citation Score: 324.95947
- Similarity Product: 241.14676703557967

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