PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129391
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "104000"]

Abstract:
The ink is discharged to the printing medium F located in the first range R 1  from the upstream end Wuu of the upstream winding part Wu where the support roller 26 a  and the printing medium F are in contact to the downstream end Wdd of the downstream winding part Wd where the support roller 26 e  and the printing medium F are in contact. The support rollers 26 a,  26 e  located on both ends of the first range R 1  are in contact with the printing medium F on the peripheral surfaces 261 having such a concave shape to increase the diameter from the center toward the ends in the width direction Y (axial direction). This causes these support rollers 26 a,  26 e  to suppress the formation of wrinkles in the first range R 1  where the ink is discharged.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus, comprising:\n a conveying unit including an upstream roller and a downstream roller located downstream of the upstream roller in a conveying direction and configured to convey a printing medium in contact with the upstream roller and the downstream roller in the conveying direction by rotating the upstream roller and the downstream roller; and an ink discharging unit configured to discharge ink to the printing medium being conveyed by the conveying unit; wherein: each of the upstream roller and the downstream roller is in contact with the printing medium on a peripheral surface shaped to increase a diameter from a center toward ends in an axial direction; and the ink discharging unit discharges the ink to the printing medium located in a first range from an upstream end of an upstream contact part, where the upstream roller and the printing medium are in contact, to a downstream end of a downstream contact part, where the downstream roller and the printing medium are in contact, in the conveying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32308
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11204342', '13427201', '13216407', '14668756', '13307387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7459341152554569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4756437074279263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7189050744727039
- Mean Citation Score: 201.950194
- Max Citation Score: 218.5826
- Similarity Product: 175.76058295476437

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

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