PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus including a can body conveyance unit, an image forming unit, a light irradiation unit and one or more other can body stop locations. Light for curing an image on a can body is inhibited from reaching the image forming unit. An upstream side restricting wall ( 31 ) is positioned on the upstream side, namely, the side on which an ink jet head ( 240 ) is provided, of a can body ( 10 ) when the can body ( 10 ) is stopped at a mandrel stop location ( 811 ) or light irradiation stop location ( 811 ). The upstream side restricting wall ( 31 ) is thereby positioned between the can body ( 10 ) and the ink jet head ( 240 ), and ultraviolet light is restricted from heading toward the ink jet head ( 240 ).

Claim (Index 18):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of image forming units, each of which ejects ink onto an outer circumferential surface of a rotating can body to form an image on the outer circumferential surface; a moving unit that moves and stops a can body to and at each of the plurality of image forming units to cause the can body to pass through each of the plurality of image forming units; and a rotating unit that rotates a can body after the can body is stopped at each of the plurality of image forming units by the moving unit, wherein each of the plurality of image forming units starts image formation onto the can body after the can body is rotated a predetermined number of times by the rotating unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44444
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15433413', '14364951', '14113615', '15121528', '12239649']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.739534181608795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4667101241639481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7122517758643103
- Mean Citation Score: 182.221554
- Max Citation Score: 204.46269
- Similarity Product: 171.12626792656124

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

Dataset: test