PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "101000"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment of this invention, liquid absorption performance of a liquid absorbing member is satisfactorily maintained while suppressing utilization of a moisturizing liquid. More specifically, before an ink image formed on a transfer member by ink discharged from a printhead is transferred, a cyclically movable liquid absorbing member absorbs a liquid component from the ink image formed on the transfer member. On the other hand, a recovery unit arranged on a moving path of the liquid absorbing member recovers absorption performance of the liquid absorbing member by applying the moisturizing liquid to the liquid absorbing member. When applying the moisturizing liquid, a condition on the surface of the liquid absorbing member is estimated and based on a result of the estimation, an application amount of the moisturizing liquid by the recovery unit is controlled.

Claim (Index 12):
The apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein the liquid absorbing member is an endless sheet, and\n further comprising a holding unit configured to hold the sheet to be cyclically movable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39344
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15920838', '15910444', '15906296', '15906156', '15920823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7232152164158062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5263904664897575
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7035327414232014
- Mean Citation Score: 264.163268
- Max Citation Score: 339.8778
- Similarity Product: 250.2128822606564

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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