PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16244465
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["347", "186000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus performs printing on a sheet including adhesive label paper and includes a thermal head configured to perform printing on the sheet using heat, a platen roller which is positioned to face the thermal head, and configured to rotate to transport the sheet when the sheet is interposed between the thermal head and the platen roller, a heating unit configured to heat the thermal head, an output device, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate in a cleaning mode, in which the controller causes the thermal head to be heated to a predetermined temperature at which glue of the label paper is softened while the platen roller is in contact with the thermal head and rotating without transporting any sheet, and controls the output device to indicate that the thermal head has been heated up to the predetermined temperature and is ready for cleaning.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus which performs printing on sheets including adhesive label paper, the printing apparatus comprising:\n a printing head configured to perform printing on a sheet including adhesive label paper; a platen roller positioned to face the printing head and configured to transport the sheet when the sheet is interposed between the printing head and the platen roller; and a controller configured to cause the printing head to be heated to a predetermined temperature while the printing head is in contact with the platen roller without any sheet being interposed between the printing head and the platen roller, the predetermined temperature being a temperature at which adhesive of the adhesive label paper is softened.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27536
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15889600', '10965120', '10607372', '10965121', '13750248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7484292811107496
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5105462778429033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.724640980783965
- Mean Citation Score: 240.001736
- Max Citation Score: 328.3841
- Similarity Product: 298.45590646086936

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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