PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "033000"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a printing apparatus that satisfactorily sucks and recovers a printhead is provided. A printing apparatus that includes a transfer member, and the first and second printheads has the following arrangement. The apparatus includes the first and second suction units which suck a plurality of nozzles of the first and second printheads, a common negative-pressure generation unit which generates a negative-pressure for suction by these suction units, and a moving unit which moves these suction units from one end to the other end of each printhead. Then, the moving unit moves the first and second suction units so as to pass through concave gaps with respect to ink discharge surfaces of the first and second printheads corresponding to the first and second suction units at different timings.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a print unit configured to print an image by discharging ink to an ink receiving member from a first printhead and a second printhead that are arranged in a first direction and arranged by connecting, in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of head substrates where a plurality of nozzles are arrayed in the second direction; a first suction unit configured to suck the plurality of nozzles of the first printhead; a second suction unit configured to suck the plurality of nozzles of the second printhead; a common negative-pressure generation unit configured to generate a negative-pressure in order to perform suction by the first suction unit and the second suction unit; and a moving unit configured to move the first suction unit and the second suction unit from one end to the other end of each of the first printhead and the second printhead in the second direction, wherein the moving unit moves the first suction unit and the second suction unit so as to pass through concave gaps with respect to ink discharge surfaces of the first printhead and the second printheads formed between the plurality of connected head substrates arranged in the printheads corresponding to the first suction unit and the second suction unit at different timings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07246
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13864601', '14679252', '13647783', '13905270', '13155531']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7556606112725672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823276428054746
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.728327314425858
- Mean Citation Score: 229.575822
- Max Citation Score: 240.37204
- Similarity Product: 194.549626971376

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

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