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 1):
An ink-jet printer, comprising:\n a conveyor configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction; a recording head having a nozzle configured to discharge ink; a power supply configured to supply a drive voltage to the recording head; an ink receiver configured to face the recording head; a command receiver; and a controller configured to control the conveyor, the recording head, and the power supply to execute:\n raising the drive voltage to a first voltage in a case that a condition is satisfied, and raising the drive voltage to a second voltage higher than the first voltage in a case that the condition is not satisfied; \n performing a flushing process for discharging ink from the recording head toward the ink receiver, under a condition that the command receiver receives a recording command which is an instruction to record an image on the sheet and that the raising the drive voltage has finished; \n lowering the drive voltage from the second voltage to the first voltage, under a condition that the flushing process after raising the drive voltage to the second voltage has finished; and \n performing a printing process, under a condition that the flushing process has finished and that the drive voltage becomes the first voltage.

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): 0.7983911529298174
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5653529518026555
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750873328171013
- Mean Citation Score: 404.493922
- Max Citation Score: 464.74884
- Similarity Product: 384.9631260182118

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