PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16292106
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["347", "213000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a thermal head is provided opposite to a platen roller. A ribbon transport unit transports an ink ribbon between the thermal head and the platen roller. A transport unit transports a sheet carrying a label between the thermal head and the platen roller. A clamping mechanism clamps the ink ribbon, a printing area of the label and the sheet in the thermal head and the platen roller. An acquisition unit acquires first print data to be printed on a first label and second print data to be printed on a second label. A non-printing area specifying unit specifies a non-printing area on the sheet, based on the first print data and the second print data. The control unit separates the ink ribbon and the sheet when it is transported between the thermal head and the platen roller, and stops the transport of the ink ribbon.

Claim (Index 1):
A printer comprising:\n a thermal head configured to thermally transfer ink of an ink ribbon to a label; a platen roller provided opposite to the thermal head; a ribbon transport unit configured to transport the ink ribbon between the thermal head and the platen roller; a transport unit configured to transport a sheet carrying the label between the thermal head and the platen roller such that a printed surface of the label and the thermal head face each other across the ink ribbon; a clamping mechanism configured to clamp the ink ribbon, a printing area of the label, and the sheet between the thermal head and the platen roller; an acquisition unit configured to acquire the plurality of print commands and draw print data to be printed on each of the plurality of labels based on the acquired print commands; a non-printing area specifying unit configured to specify a non-printing area on the sheet based on consecutive print data after drawing print data to be printed on each of the plurality of labels; and a control unit configured to control the clamping mechanism to separate the ink ribbon from the sheet and stop transport of the ink ribbon by the ribbon transport unit, when the transport unit transports the non-printing area on the sheet carrying the label between the thermal head and the platen roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90909
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15464658', '15922000', '15308642', '14227921', '11842794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7413676303791907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957822342067106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7168090907619428
- Mean Citation Score: 222.755426
- Max Citation Score: 293.21988
- Similarity Product: 286.3438688364744

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

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