PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "194000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a thermal head and a processor. The thermal head has heat-generating elements and prints on a plurality of lines in a medium in setting periods. The processor sets a second period within each setting period. The second period is a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the heat-generating elements without printing, after a first period for printing. The processor determines a n th  line (n: an integer of 1 or greater) among the lines based on printing data for printing the image. The n th  line is a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking on the medium by the thermal head. The processor adjusts a temperature change of at least a part of the heat-generating elements in the second periods corresponding to at least the n th  line and a (n+1) th  line, to suppress the sticking.

Claim (Index 16):
A printing control method of a printing apparatus,\n wherein the printing apparatus includes a thermal head which is configured to print an image on a plurality of lines in a medium, wherein the thermal head includes a plurality of heat-generating elements configured to generate heat when a voltage is applied thereto, and the thermal head is controlled to print on the plurality of lines in the medium in setting periods, and wherein the printing control method comprises: setting a second period within each of the setting periods, the second period being a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the plurality of heat-generating elements of the thermal head without printing on the medium, and the second period being set to a timing after a first period in the each of the setting periods, the first period being a time period for printing on the medium, determining a n th  line (n: an integer of 1 or greater) among the plurality of lines based on printing data for printing the image, the n th  line being a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking, and adjusting a temperature change of at least a part of the plurality of heat-generating elements in the second periods of at least two lines as a target line group so as to suppress the sticking, the at least two lines including the n th  line and a (n+1) th  line which is to be printed immediately after printing of the n th  line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15677608', '15694570', '15699093', '13051492', '13029679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7664501124110026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754345545392133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7373485566238237
- Mean Citation Score: 186.84288
- Max Citation Score: 224.39351
- Similarity Product: 189.02868143361567

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

Dataset: test