PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135574
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "029000"]

Abstract:
An inkjet head maintenance mechanism includes: an inkjet head including a nozzle plate with ejection ports arranged in the nozzle plate and configured to eject droplets of ink, and a protection plate stacked on the nozzle plate and having an opening formed at a position corresponding to the ejection ports and exposing the ejection ports to an outside; a cap configured to come into contact with the protection plate and surround the opening of the protection plate; and a controller configured to detect an on-off state of a power supply of an inkjet printer to which the inkjet head is attached and adjust a contact pressure of the cap onto the protection plate depending on the detected on-off state of the power supply.

Claim (Index 4):
The inkjet head maintenance mechanism according to  claim 1 , wherein upon the contact pressure being adjusted to a contact pressure at which an inside of the opening surrounded by the cap is hermetically sealed at start of a print operation by the inkjet head, the controller is configured to perform a cleaning operation of the inkjet head.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16949
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14346555', '13629489', '13305375', '12196160', '11032136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7374711384816276
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5029680548959665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7140208301230615
- Mean Citation Score: 220.0074
- Max Citation Score: 243.15012
- Similarity Product: 172.07928540136814

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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