PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
An intermediate transfer member (ITM) for use in a printing system to transport an ink image from an image forming station to an impression station for transfer of the ink image from the ITM onto a printing substrate, wherein the ITM is an endless flexible belt of substantially uniform width which, during use, passes over drive and guide rollers and is guided through at least the image forming station by means of guide channels that receive formations provided on both lateral edges of the belt, wherein the formations on a first edge differ from the formations on the second edge by being configured for providing the elasticity desired to maintain the belt taut when the belt is guided through their respective lateral channels.

Claim (Index 36):
A method for printing using a printing system that includes a rotating intermediate transfer member (ITM) comprising an endless flexible belt, the method comprising:\n b. at an image forming station, applying droplets of an aqueous ink comprising an aqueous carrier to an outer surface of the ITM as the ITM rotates, so as to form ink images upon the rotating ITM; c. at a drying station spaced from the image forming station, heating the ITM and the ink images thereon so as to evaporate the aqueous carrier from the ink images to leave a residue film; d. at an impression station spaced from the drying station, transferring the residue film to a sheet or web substrate, the impression station comprising an impression cylinder and a pressure cylinder having a compressible outer surface or carrying a compressible blanket, the pressure cylinder being configured to urge the belt against the impression cylinder so as to cause the residue film resting on the outer surface of the belt to be transferred onto the substrate that passes between the belt and the impression cylinder; and e. subjecting the ITM to a controlled cooling process at a cooling station, so as to reduce a temperature of the ITM to a desired value, after transfer of the residue film at the impression station and before return to the image forming station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78082
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15439966', '15053017', '14382758', '15871652', '14382880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7890021722418583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5787163084077926
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7679735858584518
- Mean Citation Score: 354.31196
- Max Citation Score: 420.04083
- Similarity Product: 361.5694556868554

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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