PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "211000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a thermal head and a processor. The thermal head includes heat-generating elements and prints on a plurality of lines in a medium. The processor sets a second period within one of the setting periods. The second period is a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the heat-generating elements without printing on the medium, after a first period for printing. The processor determines a n th  line (n: an integer of 2 or greater) among the lines based on printing data. The n th  line is estimated to have a possibility of sticking in printing. The processor adjusts a temperature change of at least a part of the heat-generating elements in the second periods corresponding to at least the n th  line and a (n−1) th  line. The (n−1) th  line is printed immediately before the n th  line based on the printing data, to suppress the sticking.

Claim (Index 12):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a thermal head that is configured to print an image on a plurality of lines on a medium, and a processor, wherein the thermal head includes a plurality of heat-generating elements configured to generate heat when a voltage is applied thereto, and the thermal head is controlled to print on the plurality of lines in the medium in setting periods, and wherein the processor is configured to: set a second period within one of the setting periods, the second period being a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the plurality of heat-generating elements of the thermal head without printing on the medium, and the second period being set to a timing after a first period in one of the setting periods, the first period being a time period for printing on the medium, adjust a temperature change of at least a part of the plurality of heat-generating elements in the second periods corresponding to at least a n th  line (n: an integer of 2 or greater) being a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking and a (n\u22121) th  line as a target line group, the (n\u22121) th  line is to be printed immediately before printing of the n th  line, so as to suppress the sticking.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15882783', '15677608', '15694570', '15699093', '10738816']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7374660175432467
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5373910709748996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.717458522886412
- Mean Citation Score: 232.988048
- Max Citation Score: 387.82663
- Similarity Product: 379.2013029613162

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

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