PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["347", "006000"]

Abstract:
An inkjet printer includes a print controller and a print mode setter. The print controller causes one or a plurality of print layers to be printed on a recording medium. The one or the plurality of print layers may include one or both of a special color ink layer and a process color ink layer. The special color ink layer includes ink dots of a special color ink, and the process color ink layer includes ink dots of the process color ink. The print mode setter is programmed and/or configured to be able to set a multi-layer print mode in which three or more layers including both of the special color ink layer and the process color ink layer are printed.

Claim (Index 5):
The inkjet printer according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the multi-layer print mode includes a first print mode in which each of at least a bottommost print layer and a second bottommost print layer of the plurality of print layers is the special color ink layer, and a second print mode in which each of at least a topmost print layer and a second topmost print layer of the plurality of print layers is the special color ink layer; the inkjet printer further comprising a sub-scanning-direction transfer device that transfers the recording medium in the sub-scanning direction relative to the first ink head and the second ink head; the first ink head and the second ink head are arranged side by side along a main scanning direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the sub-scanning direction; the first ink head includes an m number of special color nozzle arrays arrayed from upstream towards downstream along the sub-scanning direction, each of the special color nozzle arrays including an equal number of the first nozzles, where m is a natural number greater than or equal to  3 ; the second ink head includes the m number of process color nozzle arrays, each disposed at an aligned position with the special color nozzle arrays with respect to the sub-scanning direction and each including an equal number of the second nozzles as the number of the first nozzles of each of the special color nozzle arrays;\n in the first print mode, the print controller is configured or programmed to control the first nozzles belonging to a p number of the special color nozzle arrays disposed upstream with respect to the sub-scanning direction, where p is a natural number greater than or equal to 2 and less than m, to consecutively eject the special color ink while controlling the sub-scanning-direction transfer device to transfer the recording medium intermittently towards downstream along the sub-scanning direction so as to consecutively print the p number of the special color ink layers on the recording medium, and after the special color ink layers have been printed, the print controller controls the second nozzles belonging to the process color nozzle arrays disposed more downstream with respect to the sub-scanning direction than the special color nozzle arrays ejecting the special color ink so as to consecutively print a (m-p) number of the process color ink layers over the recording medium while controlling the sub-scanning-direction transfer device to transfer the recording medium intermittently toward downstream along the sub-scanning direction; and \n in the second print mode, the print controller is configured or programmed to control the second nozzles belonging to a q number of the process color nozzle arrays disposed upstream with respect to the sub-scanning direction, where q is a natural number less than or equal to (m-2), to consecutively eject the process color ink while controlling the sub-scanning-direction transfer device to transfer the recording medium intermittently toward downstream along the sub-scanning direction so as to consecutively print the q number of the process color ink layers on the recording medium, and after the process color ink layers have been printed, the print controller controls the first nozzles belonging to the special color nozzle arrays disposed more downstream with respect to the sub-scanning direction than the process color nozzle arrays ejecting the process color ink so as to consecutively print a (m-q) number of the special color ink layers over the recording medium while controlling the sub-scanning-direction transfer device to transfer the recording medium intermittently toward downstream along the sub-scanning direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64583
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15953610', '15953613', '15907498', '15953611', '15841362']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7795627360512142
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5122693786461776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7528334003107106
- Mean Citation Score: 307.9175140000001
- Max Citation Score: 332.26465
- Similarity Product: 286.8078187358976

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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