PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a transfer drum, transfer sections arranged on a peripheral surface of the drum and moving cyclically on a circular orbit by rotation of the drum, a print unit, a liquid absorbing sheet of a peripheral length corresponding to an integer multiple or an integer fraction of a peripheral length of the circular orbit and absorbing a liquid component from the ink image, a driving unit moving the liquid absorbing sheet cyclically, a displacing unit displacing the liquid absorbing sheet between a contact state and a retracted state, and a control unit controlling, when displacing again the liquid absorbing sheet to the contact state, the driving unit so as to change combinations of the transfer sections and regions of the liquid absorbing sheet that respectively contact the transfer sections at a liquid absorbing position.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a transfer drum configured to be rotated and driven; a plurality of transfer sections arranged on a peripheral surface of the transfer drum and configured to move cyclically on a circular orbit by rotation of the transfer drum; a print unit configured to form an ink image on the transfer section by discharging ink to the transfer section; a liquid absorbing sheet having a peripheral length corresponding to an integer multiple or an integer fraction of a peripheral length of the circular orbit and configured to absorb a liquid component from the ink image on the transfer section before a transfer operation of transferring the ink image formed on the transfer section to a print medium; a driving unit configured to move the liquid absorbing sheet cyclically; a displacing unit configured to displace the liquid absorbing sheet between a contact state in which the liquid absorbing sheet contacts the transfer section and a retracted state in which the liquid absorbing sheet is separated from the transfer section; and a control unit configured to control, when displacing again the liquid absorbing sheet to the contact state after displacing the liquid absorbing sheet from the contact state to the retracted state, the driving unit so as to change combinations of the transfer sections and regions of the liquid absorbing sheet that respectively contact the transfer sections at a liquid absorbing position where the liquid absorbing sheet and the transfer section contact with each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47458
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16018559', '16015958', '16015370', '15910444', '16020227']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7412909665076848
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164697663424103
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7188088464911573
- Mean Citation Score: 295.824798
- Max Citation Score: 324.96362
- Similarity Product: 281.647013322028

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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