PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16094107
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["347", "100000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an image forming method and an image forming apparatus by an inkjet method using a gel ink, which minimize a gloss difference between an image-formed region and an image-less region, regardless of a type of a paper substrate used. The image forming method of the present invention is a method for forming an image on a paper substrate by using an inkjet ink that undergoes a temperature-induced sol-gel phase transition. The image forming method includes: a step of subjecting a paper substrate to a corona discharge treatment; a step of ejecting liquid droplets of inkjet ink and landing the droplets on a surface of the paper substrate subjected to the corona discharge treatment; and a step of irradiating the droplets of the inkjet ink landed on the paper substrate with an actinic light ray to cure the inkjet ink.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming method according to  claim 1 , comprising, before performing the corona discharge treatment of the paper substrate, setting an amount of a corona discharge for surface modification of the paper substrate by referring to a table which correlates a type of the paper substrate, a type of the inkjet ink, and the amount of the corona discharge necessary for the surface modification, wherein the corona discharge treatment of the paper substrate is performed with the set amount of the corona discharge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16099305', '14394396', '15302314', '15746692', '14395363']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7774687601591246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116626074980537
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7508881448930175
- Mean Citation Score: 298.20314
- Max Citation Score: 303.4842
- Similarity Product: 200.58573092486856

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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