PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "030000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, printing is performed in a print mode with a higher ink flow rate per unit time period in a case where a time period from a time when an ink sucking operation is performed is longer, and printing is performed in a print mode with a lower ink flow rate per unit time period in a case where the time period is shorter.

Claim (Index 18):
A printing method comprising:\n conveying a printing medium in a conveying direction; discharging ink from a discharge port array from a print head in which a plurality of discharge ports is aligned in a cross direction which crosses the conveying direction while conveying the printing medium to form an image on the printing medium; and sucking ink from the discharge ports to supply ink stored in an ink tank to the print head, wherein a printing in which ink is discharged to the printing medium when forming the image on the printing medium depends on an elapsed time after the sucking performs an ink sucking operation, (i) ink is discharged to the printing medium for forming the image on the printing medium in a first printing in a case where an elapsed time after the sucking performs an ink sucking operation is longer than a first threshold value and (ii) ink is discharged to the printing medium for forming the image on the printing medium in a second printing, in a case where the elapsed time after the sucking performs the ink sucking operation is shorter than the first threshold value, an ink discharge amount for forming the image on the printing medium per unit time in the second printing being smaller than an ink discharge amount for forming the image on the print medium per unit time in the first printing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15334177', '14828981', '13358765', '15937702', '15659304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.72046615519173
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5235001359548784
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7007695532680448
- Mean Citation Score: 257.333272
- Max Citation Score: 338.12656
- Similarity Product: 280.57137660306927

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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