PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "047000"]

Abstract:
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit and a pump. The liquid ejecting apparatus has a supply channel, a return channel, and a communication channel. The supply channel is designed to be able to supply the liquid from a liquid supply source to the nozzle. The return channel has ends connected to the supply channel and forms, together with the supply channel, a circulation channel. The communication channel is connected to the return channel and allows communication between an inside of the return channel and an outside. In a state in which the return channel communicates with the outside through the communication channel, the pump is driven so as to perform a return-channel replacement operation in which the liquid in the return channel is discharged to the supply channel side.

Claim (Index 1):
A liquid ejecting apparatus, comprising:\n a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid from a nozzle; a pump; and a controller, wherein the liquid ejecting apparatus has a supply channel designed to be able to supply the liquid from a liquid supply source to the nozzle, a return channel that has ends connected to the supply channel and that forms, together with the supply channel, a circulation channel, and a communication channel that is connected to the return channel and that allows communication between an inside of the return channel and an outside, wherein the pump is designed to cause fluid in the circulation channel to flow, and wherein, in a state in which the return channel communicates with the outside through the communication channel, the controller drives the pump to perform a return-channel replacement operation in which the liquid in the return channel is discharged to the supply channel side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69811
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15719226', '15799708', '15868820', '14059145', '15426853']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7181303651491181
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857897992638442
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6948963085605907
- Mean Citation Score: 222.1729
- Max Citation Score: 244.94731
- Similarity Product: 211.3684985769433

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