PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029722
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "032000"]

Abstract:
A controller of an inkjet printing apparatus is configured such that, in response to receipt of a preceding command, which notifies transmission of a recording command in advance, from an information processing device through the communication device, the controller executes a separating process to move from a covering position to a spaced position, a moving process to move a carriage, from which the cap is separated, from a first position to a second position, a flushing process to cause the inkjet head to eject the ink toward an ink receiver in response to receipt of a recording command instructing recording of an image on the sheet and upon completion of the moving process, and a recording process to cause a conveyer to convey the sheet and cause the inkjet head to eject the ink in accordance with the recording command, in response to completion of the flushing process.

Claim (Index 7):
An inkjet printing apparatus, comprising:\n a sheet conveyer configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a carriage configured to move in a main scanning direction which intersect with the conveying direction in an area including a sheet facing area within which the carriage faces the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyer; an inkjet head mounted on the carriage and configured to eject ink droplets through nozzles formed on the inkjet head; a cap configured to face the inkjet head when the carriage is located at a first position which is outside the sheet facing area in the main scanning direction, the cap being movable between a covering position and a spaced position, the covering position being a position at which the cap closely contacts the inkjet head and covers the nozzles, the spaced position being a position at which the cap is spaced from the inkjet head; an ink receiver configured to face the inkjet head when the ink receiver is located at a second position which is outside the sheet facing area in the main scanning direction and different from the first position; a first tray configured to support the sheets; a second tray configured to support the sheets; a first conveying roller configured to feed each of the sheets supported by the first tray toward the sheet conveyer; a second conveying roller configured to feed each of the sheets supported by the second tray; a lifting mechanism configured to elevate/descend the cap between the covering position and the spaced position; a motor; and a switching mechanism configured to switch an operating state of the switching mechanism among a first state to rotate the first conveying roller, a second state to rotate the second conveying roller and a third state to drive the lifting mechanism, a communication device; and a controller, wherein, in response to receipt of a preceding command which is a command notifying transmission of a recording command in advance from an information processing device through the communication device, the controller is configured to execute:\n a separating process to move the cap from the covering position to the spaced position; and \n a moving process to move the carriage from which the cap is spaced from the first position to the second position; \n wherein, in response to receipt of the recording command which instructs recording of an image on the sheet through the communication device, the controller is configured to execute:\n a flushing process to move the carriage toward the second position and cause the inkjet head to eject the ink toward the ink receiver; and \n a recording process to cause the conveyer to convey the sheet and cause the inkjet head to eject the ink in accordance with the recording command, in response to completion of the flushing process, \n wherein the recording command indicates one of the first tray and the second tray, and wherein the controller is further configured to execute: a first switching process to switch the operating state of the switching mechanism from the third state to the first state in response to receipt of the preceding command from the information processing device through the communication device; a first conveying process to cause the first conveying roller to convey the sheet supported by the first tray until the sheet reaches the sheet conveyer in response to receipt of the recording command indicating the first tray from the information processing device through the communication device and completion of the first switching process; and the recording process in response to completion of the flushing process and the first conveying process; wherein the recording command indicates an area on the sheet on which an image is initially printed, and wherein the controller is further configured to execute: a cueing process to cause the sheet conveyer to convey the sheet in the conveying direction until the area indicated by the recording command reaches a position at which the area could face the inkjet head in response to completion of one of the first conveying process and the second conveying process, and the recording process in response to completion of the cueing process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52381
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15416804', '15417730', '15921060', '15230663', '15439266']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7802408355409121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.578718274579392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.76008857944476
- Mean Citation Score: 360.010574
- Max Citation Score: 480.13794
- Similarity Product: 463.5699744297624

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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