PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus including a can body conveyance unit, an image forming unit, a light irradiation unit and one or more other can body stop locations. Light for curing an image on a can body is inhibited from reaching the image forming unit. An upstream side restricting wall ( 31 ) is positioned on the upstream side, namely, the side on which an ink jet head ( 240 ) is provided, of a can body ( 10 ) when the can body ( 10 ) is stopped at a mandrel stop location ( 811 ) or light irradiation stop location ( 811 ). The upstream side restricting wall ( 31 ) is thereby positioned between the can body ( 10 ) and the ink jet head ( 240 ), and ultraviolet light is restricted from heading toward the ink jet head ( 240 ).

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a can body conveyance unit that sequentially conveys can bodies and, every time each of the can bodies reaches each of a predetermined plurality of can body stop locations, temporarily stops the can body; an image forming unit that is installed at any of the plurality of can body stop locations and performs image formation onto the can body positioned at the can body stop location; and a light irradiation unit that is installed at another can body stop location positioned on a downstream side of the can body stop location, where the image forming unit is installed, in a conveyance direction of the can bodies, and performs light irradiation to an image formed onto the can body by the image forming unit, wherein one or more other can body stop locations are provided between an image formation stop location, which is the can body stop location where the image forming unit is installed, and a light irradiation stop location, which is the can body stop location where the light irradiation unit is installed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44444
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15433413', '14364951', '14113615', '15121528', '12239649']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7366865113998194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814589135567496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7111637516155125
- Mean Citation Score: 182.221554
- Max Citation Score: 204.46269
- Similarity Product: 147.8816564758533

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