PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "018000"]

Abstract:
An inkjet printing apparatus according to an embodiment of this invention can properly maintain the state of a liquid applied to a transfer member for preprocessing and print a high-quality image. Therefore, an inkjet printing apparatus that prints an image by discharging ink from a printhead to a transfer member and transfers the image from the transfer member to a print medium performs the following printing method. That is, prior to printing the image, a liquid is applied to the transfer member, the liquid applied to the transfer member is dried, and the ink is discharged from the printhead to the transfer member to which the dried liquid is applied, printing the image.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a cleaning unit configured to clean the transfer member after the image is transferred to the print medium by applying a second liquid to the transfer member; and a second drying unit configured to dry the second liquid applied in order to clean the transfer member by the cleaning unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54167
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15906156', '15904889', '15891848', '13955138', '14032945']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7184809076515993
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179034855830029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6984231654447397
- Mean Citation Score: 246.567134
- Max Citation Score: 323.6838
- Similarity Product: 271.43812198433875

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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