PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "009000"]

Abstract:
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid chamber communicating with a nozzle that discharges liquid; a capacity changer that changes a capacity of the chamber; an inflow path connected to the chamber allowing the liquid to enter the chamber; an outflow path connected to the liquid chamber allowing the liquid to exit the chamber; a first resistance changer changing a flow resistance of the inflow path; a second resistance changer changing a flow resistance of the outflow path; and a controller controlling the capacity changer, the first resistance changer, and the second resistance changer. The controller allows the nozzle to discharge the liquid by increasing the flow resistance of the inflow and outflow paths, increasing the capacity of the chamber, and then, while the flow resistance of the inflow and outflow paths remain increased, decreasing the capacity of the chamber.

Claim (Index 2):
The liquid discharge apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller allows the liquid to be discharged through the nozzle by executing filling control for controlling the second flow-path resistance change portion to increase the flow-path resistance of the outflow path so as to allow the flow-path resistance of the outflow path to be larger than the flow-path resistance of the inflow path, and for controlling the capacity change portion to increase the capacity of the liquid chamber, and by, after the execution of the filling control, executing discharge control for controlling the first flow-path resistance change portion to increase the flow-path resistance of the inflow path in a state in which the flow-path resistance of the outflow path remains increased, and for controlling the capacity change portion to decrease the capacity of the liquid chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2766
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15831792', '14384919', '13781629', '14062003', '15815174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7677646301458818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887012899276808
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7398582961240617
- Mean Citation Score: 207.73585799999995
- Max Citation Score: 223.31834
- Similarity Product: 161.7885868285799

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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