PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926267
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an ink-jet printer which includes a head, a carriage, an encoder having a scale and a sensor, a memory, and a controller. The controller executes judging whether or not a recording medium is positioned at an area that can face the carriage, and detecting an abnormal position, and printing an image on a recording medium, and comparing a velocity parameter value acquired and a first threshold value, when the carriage is at a position other than the abnormal position, and comparing the velocity parameter value acquired and a second threshold value corresponding to a velocity slower than the first threshold value, when the carriage is at the abnormal position.

Claim (Index 1):
An ink-jet printer, comprising:\n a carriage configured to move in a scanning direction; a head including a nozzle, the head mounted on the carriage; an encoder including:\n a scale extending in the scanning direction and including a plurality of indicators formed at a predetermined interval in the scanning direction; and \n a sensor mounted on the carriage, the sensor being configured to detect the indicators formed on the scale; \n a memory; and a controller configured to perform:\n judging whether a recording medium is positioned at a facing area being capable of facing the carriage; \n detecting an abnormal position on the scale in the scanning direction, under a condition that the controller judges that the recording medium is not positioned at the facing area, wherein detecting the abnormal position includes: moving the carriage in the scanning direction; generating abnormal-position information indicating the abnormal position on the scale, based on a result of detecting the indicators by the sensor during a movement of the carriage; and storing the abnormal-position information in the memory; \n printing an image on the recording medium, under a condition that the controller judges that the recording medium is positioned at the facing area, wherein printing the image includes: controlling a velocity of the carriage based on a velocity parameter value of the carriage acquired from the result of detecting the indicators by the sensor, such that the carriage moves in the scanning direction at a target velocity; and controlling the head to discharge a liquid from the nozzle toward the recording medium based on image data; \n under a condition that the controller performs printing the image and that a detection position on the scale detected by the sensor is not same as the abnormal position in the abnormal-position information stored in the memory, comparing a velocity parameter value acquired when the sensor detects the detection position on the scale and a first threshold value corresponding to a velocity lower than the target velocity at the time of printing the image; and \n under a condition that the controller performs printing the image and that a detection position on the scale detected by the sensor is same as the abnormal position in the abnormal-position information stored in the memory, comparing a velocity parameter value acquired when the sensor detects the detection position on the scale and a second threshold value corresponding to a velocity lower than the first threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25455
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15696449', '10336989', '15470644', '09937858', '10723057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7585729222481804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4891518297598145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7316308129993437
- Mean Citation Score: 238.420418
- Max Citation Score: 253.70653
- Similarity Product: 199.1885612572932

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