PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "214000"]

Abstract:
A printer includes a printing unit having a printing head and a platen positioned opposite the printing head, the printing head being configured to print on a print medium that is fed between the printing head and the platen, a ribbon holding shaft configured to hold an ink ribbon that is wound thereon, a ribbon winding shaft configured to wind and collect the ink ribbon supplied from the ribbon holding shaft, and first and second guide shafts provided along a feeding route of the ink ribbon between the ribbon holding shaft and the ribbon winding shaft to apply tension to the ink ribbon. At least one of the first and second guide shafts has a tilt adjuster that applies a twist to the ink ribbon in a width direction of the ink ribbon through said at least one of the first and second guide shafts.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of correcting a twist of an ink ribbon in a printer that is fed from a ribbon holding shaft to a ribbon winding shaft via an ink ribbon feeding path that passes between a printing head of the printer and a platen of the printer, said method comprising:\n applying tension to the ink ribbon using a first guide shaft on the ribbon holding shaft side of the ink ribbon feeding path; applying tension to the ink ribbon using a second guide shaft on the ribbon winding shaft side of the ink ribbon feeding path; and pivoting the second guide shaft about a first end thereof to apply a twist to the ink ribbon in a width direction of the ink ribbon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39683
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15711056', '10287812', '14232565', '14859441', '14227921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7541234227121398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4873717378072986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7274482542216557
- Mean Citation Score: 228.94197000000003
- Max Citation Score: 249.06363
- Similarity Product: 196.64195561126053

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

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