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 8):
The ink-jet printer according to  claim 7 , further comprising:\n a cap facing the recording head in a case that the carriage is positioned in a second position which is a position more to the outside in the main scanning direction than the sheet facing area, the second positon being different from the first position, and a cap shifter configured to move the cap relative to the recording head, between a covering position closely contacting the recording head to cover the nozzle and a separated position separated from the recording head, wherein the recording head has a discharge energy generator which generates energy for discharging ink from the nozzle by the drive voltage charged in the charger, and wherein in a case that the carriage is positioned in the second position, the controller controls the power supply to stop application of a voltage to the charger and causes the discharge energy generator to generate energy, whereby the drive voltage is lowered.

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): 0.7984228351502891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5652479259471797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7751053442299782
- Mean Citation Score: 404.493922
- Max Citation Score: 464.74884
- Similarity Product: 384.27455755036345

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

Dataset: test