PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["347", "012000"]

Abstract:
A liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus includes: N nozzles; N driving elements; M power supply circuits that create a driving signal to be selectively supplied to the N driving elements; and N selecting circuits that selectively connect one of the M power supply circuits to a corresponding one of the N driving elements. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a first combination until a particular condition is satisfied. The first combination is a combination between the M power supply circuits and an M driving element groups, into which the N driving elements are divided based on a voltage of the supplied driving signal. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a second combination after the particular condition is satisfied. The second combination is another combination between the M driving element groups and the M power supply circuits.

Claim (Index 6):
The liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the controller is configured to calculate a total number of drivings of the driving elements for each of the M number of driving element groups in a state in which the N number of driving elements are connected to the M number of power supply circuits in the first combination, wherein the controller is configured to: create second combination information indicating the second combination based on an M number of total numbers, each as the total number, which are calculated respectively for the M number of driving element groups; and control the N number of selecting circuits such that the N number of driving elements are connected to the M number of power supply circuits in the second combination indicated by the second combination information after the particular condition is satisfied, and the total number of drivings in the first driving element group is greater than the total number of drivings in the second driving element group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82143
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11210968', '10807921', '14882543', '10845135', '12045447']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7584838097632677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688674920541998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.729522177992361
- Mean Citation Score: 173.28061200000005
- Max Citation Score: 177.48721
- Similarity Product: 136.79933313843011

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test