PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986105
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "104000"]

Abstract:
An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided. The ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a plurality of rollers that convey a sheet in a conveyance direction; a platen; a recording unit; a plurality of first ribs provided in the platen; and a plurality of second ribs provided between the first ribs and the rollers in the conveyance direction. The plurality of rollers, the plurality of first ribs, and the plurality of second ribs are each disposed in a position where at least parts of them overlap in the width direction, and a length in the width direction of each of the supporting surfaces of the plurality of second ribs is longer than that in the width direction of each of the supporting surfaces of the plurality of first ribs, and is shorter than that in the width direction of an abutting surface on the sheet in each of the plurality of rollers.

Claim (Index 1):
An ink-jet recording apparatus configured to discharge ink droplets onto a sheet, comprising:\n a plurality of rollers configured to convey the sheet in a conveyance direction, the plurality of rollers spaced apart from each other in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction; a platen disposed upstream of the plurality of rollers in the conveyance direction; a recording unit disposed above the platen and configured to discharge ink droplets from nozzles toward the platen; a plurality of ribs provided in the platen, spaced apart from each other in the width direction, at least a part of the plurality of ribs being located at positions facing the nozzles in an ink discharge direction orthogonal to the width direction and the conveyance direction, and each of the ribs having a supporting surface for supporting the sheet; a first sheet supporting surface portion provided between the plurality of ribs and the plurality of rollers in the conveyance direction, the first sheet supporting surface portion being disposed downstream of the nozzles in the conveyance direction; and a second sheet supporting surface portion provided between the plurality of ribs and the plurality of rollers in the conveyance direction, the second sheet supporting surface portion being disposed downstream of the nozzles in the conveyance direction, wherein the first sheet supporting surface portion and the second sheet supporting surface portion define a midpoint therebetween in the width direction, wherein one of the plurality of rollers, one of the plurality of ribs, and the midpoint between the first sheet supporting surface portion and the second sheet supporting surface portion overlap one another when viewed in the conveyance direction, and wherein a distance between the first sheet supporting surface portion and the second sheet supporting surface portion in the width direction is longer than a length of the supporting surface of the one of the plurality of ribs in the width direction, and is shorter than a length of a sheet contacting surface of the one of the plurality of rollers in the width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15686
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15417697', '15083877', '15083740', '13628668', '15185702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.779916430791926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.532451668052619
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7551699545179953
- Mean Citation Score: 287.8136
- Max Citation Score: 380.4897
- Similarity Product: 340.4727774252892

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

Dataset: test