PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938107
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "019000"]

Abstract:
The image recording apparatus has a head, a tank, a case that receives a cartridge, and a controller. When the cartridge is installed in the case of the image recording apparatus, the liquid in the cartridge flows to the tank by a difference between a liquid level in the cartridge and a liquid level in the tank. The controller controls a display to display a first notification indicating an ink cartridge based on receiving a first signal output from a sensor when a liquid level in an ink chamber reached a specific position. The controller, after receiving the first signal from the sensor, counts a count value indicating an amount of discharged liquid from the head. Further, the controller, in response to the count value reaching a first threshold, controls the display to display a second notification.

Claim (Index 1):
An image recording apparatus comprising:\n an installation case that receives a cartridge, the cartridge including:\n a first liquid chamber which stores a liquid; \n a first flow path which includes one end communicating with the first liquid chamber and the other end communicating with an outside; and \n a second flow path which includes one end communicating with the first liquid chamber and the other end communicating with the outside; \n a tank that includes:\n a second liquid chamber; \n a third flow path which includes one end communicating with the outside and the other end communicating with the second liquid chamber, at least one of the first flow path and the third flow path configured to communicate with the first chamber of the cartridge installed in the installation case and the second chamber; \n a fourth flow path which is below the third flow path in a vertical direction and communicates with the second liquid chamber; and \n a fifth flow path which includes one end communicating with the second liquid chamber and the other end communicating with the outside; \n a sensor; a head that communicates with the other end of the fourth flow path; a notification device; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to:\n receive a first signal from the sensor, the first signal output by the sensor in response to a liquid level in one of the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber being equal to or below a specific position, the specific position being equal to or above the other end of the third flow path; \n control the notification device to activate a first notification indicating the cartridge in response to receiving the first signal from the sensor; \n receive a discharging instruction to discharge the liquid via the head; \n count a count value indicating an amount of liquid instructed to be discharged with the discharging instruction in response to receiving the discharging instruction after receiving the first signal from the sensor; \n determine whether the count value reaches a first threshold; and \n control, in response to determining that the count value reaches the first threshold, the notification device to activate a second notification different from the first notification, \n wherein, at the notification device activating the second notification, the liquid level of the second chamber is between the other end of the third flow path and the one end of the fourth flow path in the vertical direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55932
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15937962', '15937998', '15938079', '15937983', '15881871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7596687396145066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4702154218693058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7307234078399866
- Mean Citation Score: 228.375208
- Max Citation Score: 240.49623
- Similarity Product: 223.39881238268487

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

Dataset: test