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 2):
The method for forming an image and a protective layer according to  claim 1 , wherein shifting the relative positions of the thermal head and the transfer receiving material with respect to each other, in the direction substantially in parallel with the main scanning direction, is carried out after transferring the color material layers, and before transferring the transferable protective layer, onto the transfer receiving material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10946058', '12476708', '11856340', '12626400', '10368476']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7365705324294934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909048900287411
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7120039681894182
- Mean Citation Score: 211.273542
- Max Citation Score: 215.04921
- Similarity Product: 159.8920088929224

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