PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886329
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "171000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that performs printing on a medium transported in a transport direction, a heating unit located downstream of the printing unit in the transport direction and configured to heat the medium, and a control unit that executes a printing operation including printing an image on the medium according to a printing instruction inputted. The control unit is configured to, when the printing operation on the medium according to an Nth (N=an integer not smaller than 1) printing instruction is finished, and then a standby operation, including waiting for a start of the printing operation on the medium according to an (N+1)th printing instruction, is performed, continue to transport the medium during the standby operation.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a printing unit that performs printing on a medium transported in a transport direction; a heating unit located downstream of the printing unit in the transport direction and configured to heat the medium; and a control unit that executes a printing operation including printing an image on the medium according to a printing instruction inputted, wherein the control unit is configured to, when the printing operation on the medium according to an Nth (N=an integer not smaller than 1) printing instruction is finished, and then a standby operation including waiting for a start of the printing operation on the medium according to an (N+1)th printing instruction is performed, continue to transport the medium during the standby operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35088
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11145932', '15534991', '10625880', '15416808', '15293329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7268063798222126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4758520447104422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7017109463110356
- Mean Citation Score: 155.459678
- Max Citation Score: 164.84323
- Similarity Product: 113.61967865859329

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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