PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010939
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "089000"]

Abstract:
A liquid circulation device includes a liquid discharge head, a circulation channel through which a liquid is circulated via the liquid discharge head, a first liquid feed pump to supply the liquid to the liquid discharge head in a circulation direction, a second liquid feed pump to collect the liquid from the liquid discharge head in the circulation direction, a filter disposed in the circulation channel upstream from the first liquid feed pump and downstream from the second liquid feed pump in the circulation direction, and a decompression-side reverse channel to bypass the second liquid feed pump. One end of the decompression-side reverse channel is connected to the circulation channel upstream from the second liquid feed pump, and another end of the decompression-side reverse channel is connected to the circulation channel downstream from the filter in the circulation direction.

Claim (Index 8):
The liquid circulation device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a main tank to store the liquid; and a third sub tank to which the liquid is supplied from the main tank, wherein the first liquid feed pump supplies the liquid in the third sub tank to the liquid discharge head, and the second liquid feed pump collects the liquid from the liquid discharge head to the third sub tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.675
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15730890', '15875578', '15817342', '13612497', '14554586']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.757242005068442
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.501835636969055
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7317013682585033
- Mean Citation Score: 245.895082
- Max Citation Score: 279.38055
- Similarity Product: 203.8059785215885

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