PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742033
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["347", "039000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes six or more inkjet heads, a carriage that is a head holder to hold a plurality of inkjet heads, a main scanning driver, and a sub-scanning driver. The carriage dividedly holds a plurality of inkjet heads in a plurality of arrays including at least a first array in which a plurality of inkjet heads are disposed side by side in a main scanning direction, and a second array in which a plurality of inkjet heads are disposed side by side in the main scanning direction while being dislocated in a sub-scanning direction with respect to the first array. Merely not more than two inkjet heads in the first array ejects an ink droplet, and merely not more than two inkjet heads in the second array ejects an ink droplet with respect to a position of each pixel in a single time of a main scanning operation.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus for printing on a medium by inkjet technology, the printing apparatus comprising:\n six or more inkjet heads, configured to eject mutually different color ink droplets by inkjet technology; a head holder, configured to hold the inkjet heads so as to face the medium; a main scanning driver, configured to cause the inkjet heads to perform a main scanning operation to eject an ink droplet while moving relative to the medium in a main scanning direction which is preset; and a sub-scanning driver, configured to cause the inkjet head to move relative to the medium in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction; wherein the head holder is configured to dividedly hold the six or more inkjet heads in a plurality of arrays comprising at least a first array in which the inkjet heads are disposed side by side in the main scanning direction, and a second array in which the inkjet heads are disposed side by side in the main scanning direction while being dislocated in the sub-scanning direction with respect to the inkjet heads in the first array, wherein merely not more than two of the inkjet heads in the first array are configured to eject an ink droplet in a single time of the main scanning operation with respect to a position of each pixel set in a region of the medium which is faced to the inkjet heads in the first array, and wherein merely not more than two of the inkjet heads in the second array are configured to eject an ink droplet in a single time of the main scanning operation, with respect to a position of each pixel set in a region of the medium which is faced to the inkjet heads in the second array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46875
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16061342', '14467067', '10932021', '14283224', '11093278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7751901020635683
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007118569405928
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7477422775512709
- Mean Citation Score: 290.022462
- Max Citation Score: 306.36124
- Similarity Product: 273.37349643493417

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

Dataset: test