PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859891
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "086000"]

Abstract:
The control unit, when a first condition in which a minimum value of a suppliable time that is a time it takes for an amount of liquid contained in each supply-side sub tank to reach an amount corresponding to a switching preparation time necessary for switching between the refill-side sub tank and the supply-side sub tank is less than or equal to a maximum value of a full refill refilling time that is a period from when refill processing for performing refilling of the liquid from the main tank is started in each of the plurality of refill-side sub tanks until a state is achieved in which the refill-side sub tank is fully re-filled with liquid and can supply the liquid is satisfied, the refill processing is performed on the plurality of refill-side sub tanks.

Claim (Index 1):
A liquid ejection system comprising:\n a head including a plurality of types of ejection outlets for ejecting a plurality of types of liquid onto a medium; a sub tank unit including sub tank sets for the respective plurality of types of ejection outlets, each of the sub tank sets being constituted by a plurality of sub tanks that are in communication with the ejection outlet in parallel, and can contain the liquid to be supplied to the ejection outlet; main tanks that are provided for the respective sub tank sets, each of the main tanks being in communication with the plurality of sub tanks that constitute the sub tank set in parallel, and containing liquid to be supplied to the sub tanks; and a control unit that controls the operations of the liquid ejection system, and switches the sub tanks in each of the sub tank sets between one supply-side sub tank that can supply liquid to the ejection outlet and the other refill-side sub tank that can be refilled with liquid from the main tank, wherein the control unit, when a first condition in which a minimum value of a suppliable time that is a time it takes for an amount of liquid contained in each supply-side sub tank to reach an amount corresponding to a switching preparation time necessary for switching between the refill-side sub tank and the supply-side sub tank is less than or equal to a maximum value of a full refill refilling time that is a period from when refill processing for performing refilling of the liquid from the main tank is started in each of the plurality of refill-side sub tanks until a state is achieved in which the refill-side sub tank is fully re-filled with liquid and can supply the liquid is satisfied, performs the refill processing on the plurality of refill-side sub tanks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13303583', '12077709', '13863869', '14733099', '12203063']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.712185504459129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816220272978657
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6891291567430027
- Mean Citation Score: 203.141904
- Max Citation Score: 213.06598
- Similarity Product: 169.52829757347462

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