PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["347", "029000"]

Abstract:
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head having an ejecting surface on which nozzles that eject a first liquid are formed, a cap having a recess configured to cover the nozzles when the ejecting surface is capped with the cap, a liquid storage section configured to store a second liquid to flow into the recess, a connection tube configured to interconnect the recess and the liquid storage section, and a pump configured to cause the second liquid to flow from the liquid storage section into the recess through the connection tube and to flow out of the recess and into the liquid storage section through the connection tube. The sectional area, parallel to the ejecting surface, of the recess is larger than the sectional area, parallel to the ejecting surface, of the connection tube.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of driving a liquid ejecting apparatus that includes\n a liquid ejecting head having an ejecting surface on which a nozzle that ejects a first liquid is formed, a cap having a recess configured to cover the nozzle when the ejecting surface is capped with the cap, a liquid storage section configured to store a second liquid to flow into the recess, a connection tube configured to interconnect the recess and the liquid storage section, and a pump configured to cause the second liquid to flow from the liquid storage section into the recess through the connection tube and to flow out of the recess and into the liquid storage section through the connection tube, the method comprising: causing the second liquid to flow from the liquid storage section into the recess through the connection tube and then to flow out of the recess and into the liquid storage section through the connection tube by using the pump while the ejecting surface is not capped, and capping the ejecting surface with the cap after the second liquids in the recess have flowed out.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80769
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15656841', '13178425', '14225585', '15365618', '11709378']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7232170915721312
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888508895514336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6997804713700614
- Mean Citation Score: 236.121094
- Max Citation Score: 248.20264
- Similarity Product: 209.128011320157

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