PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["242", "563000"]

Abstract:
A medium supply apparatus supplying a rolled medium includes a tension member contacts to the medium to apply a tension to the medium, a state switching part that switches states of the tension member between first and second states, and a control unit. The tension member is swingable between a first position at which a first corner angle (θ1) and a second position at which a second corner angle (θ2) is formed, the second corner angle (θ2) being greater than the first corner angle (θ1). The control unit causes the state switching part to switch the state of the tension member to the fixed state in the first position when the medium is supplied, the control unit causes the state switching part to switch the state of the tension member to the releasing state in the first position when the control unit does not receive an image forming start signal for a predetermined period, and the control unit causes the state switching part to switch the state of the tension member to the fixed state when the tension member reaches the second position.

Claim (Index 13):
A medium supply apparatus, comprising:\n a holder that is configured to rotatably support a medium, which is wound in a rolled shape and to be rotated by a drive part, a conveyance part that conveys the medium in a conveyance direction, and is disposed in a downstream side with respect to the holder in the conveyance direction, a medium guide part that has a curved portion, is disposed in a upstream side with the conveyance part in the conveyance direction, a tension member that is disposed between the holder and the medium guide part along the conveyance path and applies a tension to the medium by contacting, the tension member being swingable between a first position and a second position,\n when the tension member is at the first position, the medium being curved by the curved portion of the medium guide part so that the medium is in a curved shape, seen from a side view of the medium being conveyed, the side view being perpendicular to the conveyance direction and to flat surfaces of the medium, \n when the tension member is at the second position, the medium not contacting to the curved portion of the medium guide part so that the medium is in a linear shape, seen from the side view of the medium, \n the tension applied by the tension member being oriented from the second position to the first position, \n a state switching part that has a detection sensor that detects a position of the tension member and switches states of the tension member between two states in correspondence with a detection result by the detection sensor, one state being a fixed state where the tension member is locked such that the tension member is not movable, and the other state being releasing state where the tension members is not locked such that the tension member is movable, a control unit that controls the drive part for the holder, conveyance part, and the state switching part, wherein the control unit causes the state switching part to switch the state of the tension member to the fixed state in the first position when the medium is conveyed to the downstream side for an image forming process, and the control unit causes the state switching part to switch the state of the tension member to the releasing state in the first position when the control unit does not receive print data for the image forming process for a predetermined period after the conveyance part stops conveying the medium so that the tension medium is moved to the second position as the drive part drives the holder to rotate in an opposite direction to the conveyance direction, and the control unit causes the state switching part to switch the state of the tension member to the fixed state when the tension member reaches the second position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.10938
- Patent Class: 242.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14147861', '14682400', '15242909', '14926945', '15074739']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7454138569187898
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843444478639039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7193069160133012
- Mean Citation Score: 201.676278
- Max Citation Score: 206.39717
- Similarity Product: 136.76157809627293

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

Dataset: test