PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "108000"]

Abstract:
A thermal transfer apparatus is disclosed. The thermal transfer apparatus has a heating roller movable between a film contact position and a retracted position. The thermal transfer apparatus also includes a nip roller positioned opposed to the heating roller when the heating roller is in the film contact position. The heating roller is moved from the film contact position to the retracted position in response to opening of the cover and is not moved from the retracted position to the film contact position during closing of the cover.

Claim (Index 1):
A thermal transfer apparatus comprising:\n a housing including an opening; a cover positioned to cover the opening and movable between open and closed positions; a heating roller movable between a first position and a second position, the first position being a film contact position and the second position being a retracted position, the film contact position being a position in which the heating roller contacts a web of multi-layer transfer film; a nip roller positioned opposed to the heating roller when the heating roller is in the film contact position; and wherein the heating roller is moved from the first position to the second position in response to opening of the cover and wherein the heating roller is not moved from the second position to the first position during closing of the cover.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48649
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13775344', '12536330', '15364382', '13612574', '15466020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7457436680564405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991542398028722
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7210847252310838
- Mean Citation Score: 209.80111
- Max Citation Score: 219.98955
- Similarity Product: 133.63047733549476

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

Dataset: test