PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["347", "012000"]

Abstract:
A liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus includes: N nozzles; N driving elements; M power supply circuits that create a driving signal to be selectively supplied to the N driving elements; and N selecting circuits that selectively connect one of the M power supply circuits to a corresponding one of the N driving elements. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a first combination until a particular condition is satisfied. The first combination is a combination between the M power supply circuits and an M driving element groups, into which the N driving elements are divided based on a voltage of the supplied driving signal. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a second combination after the particular condition is satisfied. The second combination is another combination between the M driving element groups and the M power supply circuits.

Claim (Index 10):
The liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the controller is configured to:\n acquire number information for specifying the number of driving elements in each of the M number of driving element groups; \n create first combination information indicating the first combination based on the number information; and \n control the N number of selecting circuits such that the N number of driving elements are connected to the M number of power supply circuits in the first combination indicated by the first combination information until the particular condition is satisfied, \n wherein the M number of driving element groups comprise the first driving element group, the second driving element group, and a third driving element group, wherein the M number of power supply circuits comprise: the first power supply circuit corresponding to the first driving element group in the first combination; the second power supply circuit corresponding to the second driving element group in the first combination; and a third power supply circuit corresponding to the third driving element group in the first combination, wherein the second power supply circuit is disposed at a position which is the closest to the first power supply circuit among the M number of power supply circuits, wherein the third power supply circuit is disposed at a position which is the second closest to the first power supply circuit among the M number of power supply circuits, wherein the number of driving elements in the second driving element group is less than the number of driving elements in the first driving element group, and wherein the number of driving elements in the second driving element group is less than the number of driving elements in the third driving element group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82143
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11210968', '10807921', '14882543', '10845135', '12045447']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7573640377533615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4747279876278129
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7291004327408067
- Mean Citation Score: 173.28061200000005
- Max Citation Score: 177.48721
- Similarity Product: 129.89095168688056

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

Dataset: test