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 5):
The printer according to  claim 4 , wherein the cam mechanism has a ratchet mechanism, and a rotation of the cam causes the position of the second end of the second guide shaft to displace in a stepwise manner through the ratchet mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39683
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15711056', '10287812', '14232565', '14859441', '14227921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7726725878977396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078803314984268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7461933622578084
- Mean Citation Score: 228.94197000000003
- Max Citation Score: 249.06363
- Similarity Product: 149.11029471052228

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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