PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "030000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, printing is performed in a print mode with a higher ink flow rate per unit time period in a case where a time period from a time when an ink sucking operation is performed is longer, and printing is performed in a print mode with a lower ink flow rate per unit time period in a case where the time period is shorter.

Claim (Index 2):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a conveying unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveying direction; a print head having a discharge port array in which a plurality of discharge ports configured to discharge ink is aligned in a cross direction which crosses the conveying direction; a suction unit configured to perform an ink sucking operation to suck ink from the discharge ports to supply ink stored in an ink tank to the print head; and a control unit configured to control the conveying unit and the print head such that the discharge ports discharge ink to the printing medium to form an image on the printing medium while the conveying unit conveys the printing medium, wherein the control unit controls the conveyance unit so as to, (i) convey the printing medium for forming the image on the printing medium at a first speed, in a case where an elapsed time after the ink sucking operation is longer than a first threshold value, and (ii) convey the printing medium for forming the image on the printing medium at a second speed that is lower than the first speed, in a case where the elapsed time after the ink sucking operation is shorter than the first threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15334177', '14828981', '13358765', '15937702', '15659304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7203922967954607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216620167649264
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7005192687924073
- Mean Citation Score: 257.333272
- Max Citation Score: 338.12656
- Similarity Product: 304.2987805033112

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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