PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129391
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "104000"]

Abstract:
The ink is discharged to the printing medium F located in the first range R 1  from the upstream end Wuu of the upstream winding part Wu where the support roller 26 a  and the printing medium F are in contact to the downstream end Wdd of the downstream winding part Wd where the support roller 26 e  and the printing medium F are in contact. The support rollers 26 a,  26 e  located on both ends of the first range R 1  are in contact with the printing medium F on the peripheral surfaces 261 having such a concave shape to increase the diameter from the center toward the ends in the width direction Y (axial direction). This causes these support rollers 26 a,  26 e  to suppress the formation of wrinkles in the first range R 1  where the ink is discharged.

Claim (Index 7):
A printing method, comprising:\n rotating an upstream roller and a downstream roller located downstream of the upstream roller in a conveying direction to convey a printing medium in contact with the upstream roller and the downstream roller in the conveying direction; and discharging ink to the printing medium located in a first range from an upstream end of an upstream contact part, where the upstream roller and the printing medium are in contact, to a downstream end of a downstream contact part, where the downstream roller and the printing medium are in contact, in the conveying direction, wherein each of the upstream roller and the downstream roller is in contact with the printing medium on a peripheral surface shaped to increase a diameter from a center toward ends in an axial direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32308
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11204342', '13427201', '13216407', '14668756', '13307387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7446426603091773
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826573048311776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7184441247613773
- Mean Citation Score: 201.950194
- Max Citation Score: 218.5826
- Similarity Product: 162.86828415192366

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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