PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "175000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming an image and a protective layer on a transfer receiving material, by thermal transfer, including supplying a thermal transfer sheet between a thermal head of a thermal printer and a platen roller, wherein the thermal transfer sheet includes color material layers and a transferable protective layer arranged in a face serial manner, and wherein the thermal head includes heat generating portions arranged substantially in parallel with each other; thermally transferring the color material layers to form an image on the transfer receiving material; thermally transferring the transferable protective layer to form a protective layer on the transfer receiving material; and shifting the relative positions of the thermal head and the transfer receiving material with respect to each other, in a direction substantially in parallel with a main scanning direction, after transferring the color material layers at least once.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for forming an image and a protective layer on a transfer receiving material, by thermal transfer, the method comprising:\n supplying a thermal transfer sheet between a thermal head of a thermal printer and a platen roller disposed opposite to the thermal head, wherein the thermal transfer sheet comprises a plurality of color material layers and a transferable protective layer which are arranged in a face serial manner, and wherein the thermal head comprises a plurality of heat generating portions which is arranged so as to extend substantially in parallel with each other; transferring the color material layers of the thermal transfer sheet onto the transfer receiving material, by heat of the thermal head, to form an image on the transfer receiving material; transferring the transferable protective layer of the thermal transfer sheet onto the transfer receiving material, by heat of the thermal head, to form a protective layer on the transfer receiving material; and shifting the relative positions of the thermal head and the transfer receiving material with respect to each other, in a direction substantially in parallel with a main scanning direction, after transferring the color material layers at least once.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10946058', '12476708', '11856340', '12626400', '10368476']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.714078017694332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825283523495682
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6909230511598556
- Mean Citation Score: 211.273542
- Max Citation Score: 215.04921
- Similarity Product: 170.62938525081395

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

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