PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a discharge unit which discharges a liquid by a piezoelectric element; and a driving circuit which drives the piezoelectric element, in which the driving circuit includes a first transistor pair which is driven by a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage, a second transistor pair which is driven by the second power source voltage and a third power source voltage, and a first control circuit which controls on a first input signal, and in which, the shortest distance between the first power source voltage and the first input terminal is shorter than the shortest distance between the second power source voltage and the first input terminal, and the shortest distance between the second power source terminal and the first input terminal is shorter than the shortest distance between the third power source voltage and the first input terminal.

Claim (Index 5):
The liquid discharge apparatus according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the discharge unit discharges the liquid by applying the first driving signal or a second driving signal to the piezoelectric element, wherein a second driving circuit which outputs the second driving signal is further provided, wherein the second driving circuit includes a second output node for outputting the second driving signal, a third transistor pair which includes a fifth transistor and a sixth transistor which are connected to each other in series between a fourth power source voltage supply line for supplying a fourth power source voltage and a fifth power source voltage supply line for supplying a fifth power source voltage that is higher than the fourth power source voltage, a fourth transistor pair which includes a seventh transistor and an eighth transistor which are connected to each other in series between the fifth power source voltage supply line and a sixth power source voltage supply line for supplying a sixth power source voltage that is higher than the fifth power source voltage, a third gate driver to which the fourth power source voltage and the fifth power source voltage are supplied and which generates a third control signal that controls a switching operation of the third transistor pair, a fourth gate driver to which the fifth power source voltage and the sixth power source voltage are supplied and which generates a fourth control signal that controls a switching operation of the fourth transistor pair, and a second control circuit which controls the third gate driver and the fourth gate driver based on a second input signal, wherein an output end of the third transistor pair and an output end of the fourth transistor pair are connected to the second output node, wherein at least a part of the third gate driver, at least a part of the fourth gate driver, and at least a part of the second control circuit are integrated in the integrated circuit device, wherein the integrated circuit device includes a fourth power source terminal to which the fourth power source voltage is supplied, a fifth power source terminal to which the fifth power source voltage is supplied, a sixth power source terminal to which the sixth power source voltage is supplied, and a second input terminal to which the second input signal is input, wherein the shortest distance between the fourth power source terminal and the second input terminal is shorter than the shortest distance between the fifth power source terminal and the second input terminal, wherein the shortest distance between the fifth power source terminal and the second input terminal is shorter than the shortest distance between the sixth power source terminal and the second input terminal, wherein the shortest distance between the second input terminal and a third side that opposes the second side of the integrated circuit device is shorter than the shortest distance between the second input terminal and the first side, wherein the shortest distance between the fourth power source terminal and the first side is shorter than the shortest distance between the fourth power source terminal and the third side, wherein the shortest distance between the fifth power source terminal and the first side is shorter than the shortest distance between the fifth power source terminal and the third side, and wherein the shortest distance between the sixth power source terminal and the first side is shorter than the shortest distance between the sixth power source terminal and the third side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.53333
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16027430', '14946099', '11554347', '13249091', '14456995']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7295116672769101
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5266197444724608
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7092224749964652
- Mean Citation Score: 226.240288
- Max Citation Score: 335.52194
- Similarity Product: 264.1181427793932

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

Dataset: test