PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "220000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a printing apparatus including: a frame; a platen facing a thermal head; a moving mechanism having first and second rollers; a motor; a transmitting mechanism; a clutch provided on the transmitting mechanism; a communication interface performing communication with an external apparatus; and a controller. The controller is configured to: start the driving of the motor toward one direction in a state that the clutch is in the connected state, after receiving a print signal, indicating that the print medium is located at a printable position; and to allow the clutch to be in a cutoff state and stop the driving of the motor toward the one direction, after ending of printing in accordance of the receiving of the print signal and before arrival of the moving mechanism at an end on a second side, opposite to the first side, in the specified direction of the moving range.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a frame; a platen supported by the frame and configured to face a thermal head; a moving mechanism supported by the frame, the moving mechanism being movable in a moving range along a specified direction, the moving mechanism comprising:\n a first roller positioned upstream of the platen in a conveyance path of a print medium; \n a second roller positioned downstream of the platen in the conveyance path; and \n a supporting member rotatably supporting the first roller and the second roller, \n the moving mechanism being configured such that a part, of the conveyance path, between the platen and the first roller becomes shorter in a case that the moving mechanism is moved toward a first side in the specified direction, and the part, of the conveyance path, between the platen and the first roller becomes longer in a case that the moving mechanism is moved toward a second side, opposite to the first side, in the specified direction; \n a motor provided on the frame; a transmitting mechanism connected to the motor and the moving mechanism, the transmitting mechanism being configured to move the moving mechanism toward the first side in accordance with driving of the motor toward one direction; a clutch provided on the transmitting mechanism, the clutch transmitting a driving force of the motor to the moving mechanism in a case that the clutch is in a connected state, and the clutch not transmitting the driving force to the moving mechanism in a case that the clutch is in a cutoff state; a communication interface configured to perform communication with an external apparatus; and a controller configured to execute:\n starting the driving of the motor toward the one direction in a state that the clutch is in the connected state, after receiving a print signal from the external apparatus via the communication interface, the print signal indicating that the print medium is located at a printable position, and \n allowing the clutch to be in the cutoff state, after ending of printing and before arrival of the moving mechanism at an end on the second side of the moving range, the printing being performed in response to the receiving of the print signal via the communication interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35211
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15712199', '15716749', '15713048', '15715195', '12898078']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7696398545825394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.516762943958135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7443521635200989
- Mean Citation Score: 303.43946000000005
- Max Citation Score: 348.3464
- Similarity Product: 343.29210975823406

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

Dataset: test