PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "010000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an ink-jet printer comprising: a recording head, an electric power supply, and a controller which is configured: to determine an ink amount in which an ink is jetted by the recording head in a flushing processing; in a case that the determined ink amount is less than a first ink amount, to boost a driving voltage of the electric power supply to a target voltage value, in accordance with a predetermined first voltage boosting pattern; and in a case that the determined ink amount is not less than the first ink amount, to boost the driving voltage to the target voltage value, in accordance with a predetermined second voltage boosting pattern in which a voltage boosting time is shorter than that in the first voltage boosting pattern. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten FPOT while reducing the load on the constitutive elements of the ink-jet printer.

Claim (Index 14):
An ink-jet printer comprising:\n a motor; a conveyor configured to convey a medium; a switching mechanism configured to switch between a transmitting state in which the switching mechanism transmits driving force of the motor to the conveyor and a non-transmitting state in which the switching mechanism does not transmit the driving force to the conveyor; a recording head having a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of driving elements corresponding to the plurality of nozzles, respectively; a power supply configured to output a driving voltage to be applied to the plurality of driving elements; an ink receiver; and a controller, wherein the switching mechanism includes:\n a first gear arranged on a transmittance route via which the driving force is transmitted from the motor to the conveyor, the first gear movable between a first position and a second position; and \n a second gear arranged on the transmittance route, the second gear configured to mesh with the first gear, the switching mechanism being switched to the transmitting state under a condition that the second gear is meshed with the first gear which is located at the first position, and the switching mechanism being switched to the non-transmitting state under a condition that the second gear is separated and away from the first gear moved to a position different from the first position; \n wherein in a case that the controller obtains an image recording instruction for instructing execution of recording of an image on the medium, the controller is configured to perform:\n controlling the power supply to boost the driving voltage of the power supply to a target voltage value, and controlling the recording head to perform flushing by applying the driving voltage to all of the plurality of driving elements with a timing being determined such that the ink jetted from each of the plurality of nozzles lands on the ink receiver, in parallel with,\n controlling the switching mechanism to switch the switching mechanism from the non-transmitting state to the transmitting state, and \n controlling the conveyor to perform conveyance of the medium up to an initial position where an area, of the medium, in which the image is to be recorded first is capable of facing the recording head; \n \n after completion of the flushing and the conveyance of the medium up to the initial position, applying the driving voltage, which has been boosted to the target voltage value, selectively to the plurality of driving elements, in accordance with the image recording instruction, to perform the recording of the image on the medium; \n performing determination of an ink amount by which the recording head is configured to jet the ink in the flushing; \n in a case that the determined ink amount is not less than a first ink amount, controlling the motor to perform clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations for a first number of times in a process during which the first gear is moved from the second position toward the first position; and \n in a case that the determined ink amount is less than the first ink amount, controlling the motor to perform the clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations for a second number of times, which is smaller than the first number of times, in the process during which the first gear is moved from the second position toward the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57143
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15911322', '15924580', '15470644', '15470681', '15470601']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7750595148275281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388516801818434
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7514387313629597
- Mean Citation Score: 317.653862
- Max Citation Score: 398.70212
- Similarity Product: 345.8783457969236

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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