PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "006000"]

Abstract:
In a method of controlling a liquid discharge device, the liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge unit and at least one valve body. The liquid discharge unit discharges from a nozzle liquid supplied from at least one supply channel. The at least one valve body opens/closes the at least one supply channel. The method includes first control and second control. The first control causes a pressure to be applied to the liquid so as to supply the liquid to the at least one supply channel. The second control causes an external force to operate the at least one valve body operable in accordance with a pressure on a downstream side of the at least one valve body so as to adjust and hold a degree of opening of the at least one valve body in a range between a closed state and a full-open state.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of controlling a liquid discharge device,\n wherein the liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge unit configured to discharge from a nozzle liquid supplied from at least one supply channel, and at least one valve body configured to open/close the at least one supply channel, and wherein the method includes first control that causes a pressure to be applied to the liquid so as to supply the liquid to the at least one supply channel, and second control that causes an external force to operate the at least one valve body operable in accordance with a pressure on a downstream side of the at least one valve body so as to adjust and hold a degree of opening of the at least one valve body in a range between a closed state and a full-open state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13612497', '12621751', '11092779', '13877849', '10347523']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.766103769016335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675705788544707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7362504500001485
- Mean Citation Score: 188.162412
- Max Citation Score: 195.88025
- Similarity Product: 161.07358214634658

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

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