PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872682
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "012000"]

Abstract:
An inkjet printer includes head units each having an upstream head and a downstream head. The downstream head is adjacent to the upstream head as seen in a width direction of a recording medium, and is positioned downstream from the upstream head as seen in a transport direction. Each of the upstream and downstream heads includes a plurality of nozzles, and some of the nozzles in the upstream head and some of the nozzles in the downstream head overlap each other in widthwise position. A controller for the inkjet printer includes a ratio changing part for changing a usage ratio between the nozzles in the upstream head and the nozzles in the downstream head in an overlap region that is a widthwise range in which the overlapping ones of the nozzles are present. The occurrence of color irregularities in the overlap region is suppressed by appropriately setting the usage ratio.

Claim (Index 6):
The inkjet printer according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the change in usage ratio by means of said ratio changing part is not applied to some of said nozzles in said upstream and downstream heads which are included in said overlap region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13922560', '15082828', '14670473', '14029868', '14886488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7918209392931495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4913077928288418
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7617696246467187
- Mean Citation Score: 244.94442
- Max Citation Score: 256.76276
- Similarity Product: 210.6738487427569

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test