PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "211000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a thermal head and a processor. The thermal head includes heat-generating elements and prints on a plurality of lines in a medium. The processor sets a second period within one of the setting periods. The second period is a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the heat-generating elements without printing on the medium, after a first period for printing. The processor determines a n th  line (n: an integer of 2 or greater) among the lines based on printing data. The n th  line is estimated to have a possibility of sticking in printing. 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. The (n−1) th  line is printed immediately before the n th  line based on the printing data, to suppress the sticking.

Claim (Index 17):
A computer-readable recording medium having a printing control program for controlling a printing apparatus recorded therein,\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 program is configured to allow a computer: to set a second period within one 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 one of the setting periods, the first period being a time period for printing on the medium, to determine a n th  line (n: an integer of 2 or greater) among the plurality of lines in the medium based on printing data for printing the image, the n th  line being a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking, and to generate countermeasure data for adjusting a temperature change of at least a part of the plurality of heat-generating elements in the second periods corresponding to at least the n th  line and a (n\u22121) th  line as a target line group, the (n\u22121) th  line is to be printed immediately before printing of the n th  line based on the printing data, so as to suppress the sticking.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15882783', '15677608', '15694570', '15699093', '10738816']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7601349927500133
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5392985634051709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.738051349815529
- Mean Citation Score: 232.988048
- Max Citation Score: 387.82663
- Similarity Product: 367.309832111528

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

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