PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "009000"]

Abstract:
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid chamber communicating with a nozzle that discharges liquid; a capacity changer that changes a capacity of the chamber; an inflow path connected to the chamber allowing the liquid to enter the chamber; an outflow path connected to the liquid chamber allowing the liquid to exit the chamber; a first resistance changer changing a flow resistance of the inflow path; a second resistance changer changing a flow resistance of the outflow path; and a controller controlling the capacity changer, the first resistance changer, and the second resistance changer. The controller allows the nozzle to discharge the liquid by increasing the flow resistance of the inflow and outflow paths, increasing the capacity of the chamber, and then, while the flow resistance of the inflow and outflow paths remain increased, decreasing the capacity of the chamber.

Claim (Index 1):
A liquid discharge apparatus comprising:\n a liquid chamber in communication with a nozzle configured to discharge liquid through the nozzle; a capacity change portion configured to change a capacity of the liquid chamber; an inflow path connected to the liquid chamber and configured to allow the liquid to be flown into the liquid chamber; an outflow path connected to the liquid chamber and configured to allow the liquid to be flown out from the liquid chamber; a first flow-path resistance change portion configured to change a flow-path resistance of the inflow path; a second flow-path resistance change portion configured to change a flow-path resistance of the outflow path; and a controller configured to control the capacity change portion, the first flow-path resistance change portion, and the second flow-path resistance change portion, wherein the controller allows the liquid to be discharged through the nozzle by controlling the first flow-path resistance change portion and the second flow-path resistance change portion to increase the flow-path resistance of the inflow path and the flow-path resistance of the outflow path, controlling the capacity of the liquid chamber to increase the capacity of the liquid chamber, and then, in a state in which the flow-path resistance of the inflow path and the flow-path resistance of the outflow path remain increased, controlling the capacity change portion to decrease the capacity of the liquid chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2766
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15831792', '14384919', '13781629', '14062003', '15815174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.748448731263068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723271088958862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7208365690263497
- Mean Citation Score: 207.73585799999995
- Max Citation Score: 223.31834
- Similarity Product: 189.0696516488861

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

Dataset: test