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 3):
The liquid discharge apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein, before the execution of the filling control, the controller allows a pressure of the liquid inside the liquid chamber to be lower than or equal to a withstand pressure of meniscus of the liquid inside the nozzle by executing waiting control for controlling the first flow-path resistance change portion to allow the liquid to be flown into the liquid chamber through the inflow path, and for allowing the flow-path resistance of the inflow path to be larger than the flow-path resistance of the outflow path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2766
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15831792', '14384919', '13781629', '14062003', '15815174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7688070252377097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825928099008504
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7401856037040238
- Mean Citation Score: 207.73585799999995
- Max Citation Score: 223.31834
- Similarity Product: 173.61505545324562

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