PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945969
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "055000"]

Abstract:
An ink-jet printer including a conveyor, a carriage, a recording head, a power supply, an ink receiver, a command receiver, and a controller, is provided. The controller executes the steps of: determining a discharge ink amount that should be discharged to the ink receiver; raising a drive voltage to a first voltage when the discharge ink amount is less than a first threshold value, and raising the drive voltage to a second voltage when the discharge ink amount is the first threshold value or more; performing a flushing process; based on the flushing process after having raised the drive voltage to the second voltage having finished in the case of having raised the drive voltage to the second voltage, stepping down the drive voltage from the second voltage to the first voltage; and based on the flushing process having finished and on the drive voltage being the first voltage, performing a printing process.

Claim (Index 6):
The ink-jet printer according to  claim 3 , further comprising\n a sensor mounted in the carriage to detect that the sheet conveyed by the conveyor has reached the sheet facing area, wherein the controller is further configured to determine a discharge ink amount that the recording head is to discharge toward the ink receiver before raising the drive voltage, wherein a plurality of the nozzles are arranged in the main scanning direction in the recording head, wherein the controller is configured to control the conveyor, the carriage, the recording head, and the power supply to execute:\n in the flushing process, discharging ink of the determined discharge ink amount from each of the plurality of the nozzles in an arrangement order in the main scanning direction, in a process of moving the carriage in the area facing the ink receiver; \n under a condition that the ink has discharged from all of the nozzles in the flushing process, in parallel, causing the carriage which is in motion to reach the sheet facing area without stopping the carriage, and lowering the drive voltage; \n positioning the sheet by causing the conveyor to convey the sheet toward the sheet facing area; and \n performing the printing process, under a condition that lowering the drive voltage has finished and that the sensor has detected the sheet that has been positioned.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65625
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15470601', '15470681', '15470644', '15696449', '15470392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7983002772608294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5656537497290368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750356245076502
- Mean Citation Score: 404.493922
- Max Citation Score: 464.74884
- Similarity Product: 386.93567232140776

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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