PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "600000"]

Abstract:
The present invention contains a printing apparatus and a method, e.g., for ejecting inks (i.e., pure liquids, mixtures, colloids, etc.) for a very broad range of physical properties (such as viscosity). Acoustic forces  3 a  may be generated by an emitter  1  and a reflector  2  to detach droplets  10  from a nozzle  6.  The ink may be advanced through the nozzle  6  by a standard back pressure system  5.  A reflectorless chamber  7  may enhance acoustic forces  8 a  and the droplets  10  may be ejected at a bottom  9  of said chamber  7,  so that droplets  10  may be deposited on any substrate  11.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of acoustophoretic printing, the method comprising:\n arranging a nozzle within a first fluid; generating an acoustic field in the first fluid by an oscillating emitter; and driving a second fluid out of the nozzle, thereby forming a pendant droplet of the second fluid at the nozzle opening, wherein acoustic forces from the acoustic field promote detachment of the pendant droplet from the nozzle opening, wherein oscillation of the oscillating emitter is set constant or is modulated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5443
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15842366', '15113684', '14557040', '14026413', '15285434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7824770650648728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5884244740438057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7630718059627661
- Mean Citation Score: 315.19104600000014
- Max Citation Score: 478.3345
- Similarity Product: 432.9639862096311

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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