PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment of this invention, a technique that implements satisfactory image formation by locating a place where the condition of a transfer member is poor and restricting image formation for the place. More specifically, the following control is performed by a printing apparatus that includes a transfer member which rotates, a printhead configured to form an image on the transfer member, and a transfer unit which transfers, to a print medium, the image formed on the transfer member. That is, a surface condition of the transfer member is detected, and image formation by the printhead for a region determined that the surface condition is poor is restricted.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the detection unit includes an optical sensor provided at a position spaced apart from an outer peripheral surface of the transfer member, and\n the measurement unit includes an encoder provided in one of a vicinity of a rotating shaft of the transfer member and a vicinity of an inner periphery of the transfer member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2037
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16026293', '15906296', '15906156', '16025548', '15920479']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.793099737295933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503853280292623
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.764175091595602
- Mean Citation Score: 239.540688
- Max Citation Score: 243.37924
- Similarity Product: 152.80108532443046

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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