PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["347", "029000"]

Abstract:
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head having an ejecting surface on which nozzles that eject a first liquid are formed, a cap having a recess configured to cover the nozzles when the ejecting surface is capped with the cap, a liquid storage section configured to store a second liquid to flow into the recess, a connection tube configured to interconnect the recess and the liquid storage section, and a pump configured to cause the second liquid to flow from the liquid storage section into the recess through the connection tube and to flow out of the recess and into the liquid storage section through the connection tube. The sectional area, parallel to the ejecting surface, of the recess is larger than the sectional area, parallel to the ejecting surface, of the connection tube.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 5 , wherein the liquid ejecting apparatus further includes a discharge tube configured to discharge the second liquids in the recess, the method further comprising:\n after the second liquid has flowed into the recess, the second liquids are discharged from the recess through the discharge tube or flow out of the recess and into the liquid storage section through the connection tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80769
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15656841', '13178425', '14225585', '15365618', '11709378']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7225069707982883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4928354611963873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6995398198380982
- Mean Citation Score: 236.121094
- Max Citation Score: 248.20264
- Similarity Product: 198.83441387847424

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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