PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "009000"]

Abstract:
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a cartridge including a first liquid chamber and a first flow path; a tank including a second liquid chamber and a third flow path, at least one of the first flow path and the third flow path communicating the first and second liquid chambers when the cartridge is installed in an installation case; and a controller configured to: when the cartridge is installed in the installation case, determine a liquid amount Vs based on an outflow amount Qc of liquid flowed out from the cartridge toward the tank and a discharge liquid amount; determine whether elapsed time reaches standby time after determining that the liquid amount Vs reaches a first threshold value; and when the elapsed time reaches the standby time, perform image recording of next unit recording area.

Claim (Index 15):
A system comprising:\n a cartridge including:\n a first liquid chamber storing a liquid; \n a first flow path, one end of the first flow path communicated with the first liquid chamber, the other end of the first flow path communicated with the outside; \n a second flow path, one end of the second flow path communicated with the first liquid chamber, the other end of the second flow path communicated with the outside; and \n a cartridge memory; \n an installation case configured to receive the cartridge; a tank including:\n a second liquid chamber; \n a third flow path, one end of the third flow path communicated with the outside, the other end of the third flow path communicated with the second liquid chamber, at least one of the first flow path and the third flow path configured to communicate with the first liquid chamber of the cartridge installed in the installation case and the second liquid chamber; \n a fourth flow path, one end of the fourth flow path being below the other end of the third flow path and communicated with the second liquid chamber; and \n a fifth flow path, one end of the fifth flow path communicated with the second liquid chamber, the other end of the fifth flow path communicated with the outside; \n a head communicated with the other end of the fourth flow path; a notification device; an interface; and a controller, wherein at least one of the first flow path and the third flow path is configured to cause the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber to communicate with each other in a case where the cartridge is installed in the installation case, and wherein the controller is configured to:\n determine whether a position of a liquid level in the second liquid chamber is lower than a reference position; \n based on determining that the position of the liquid level in the second liquid chamber is lower than the reference position, control the notification device to perform a first notification; \n determine whether the cartridge is installed in the installation case; \n based on determining that the cartridge is installed in the installation case after controlling the notification device to perform the first notification, read out a liquid amount Vc from the cartridge memory via the interface, the liquid amount Vc indicating amount of liquid stored in the first liquid chamber; \n receive an image recording instruction to form an image by discharging the liquid through the head; \n determine a liquid amount Vs based on an outflow amount Qc and a discharge liquid amount, the liquid amount Vs indicating amount of liquid stored in the second liquid chamber, the outflow amount Qc indicating amount of the liquid to be flowed out from the first liquid chamber toward the second liquid chamber, the outflow mount Qc being determined based on the read liquid amount Vc, the discharge liquid amount indicating amount of liquid instructed to be discharged through the head performing image recording of unit recording area based on the received image recording instruction; \n determine whether the liquid amount Vs reaches a first threshold value; \n based on determining that the liquid amount Vs reaches the first threshold value, determine whether elapsed time reaches standby time T1, the elapsed time being from determining that the liquid amount Vc reaches the first threshold value; \n based on determining that the elapsed time reaches the standby time T1, perform image recording of unit recording area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15937998', '15938054', '15938032', '15937962', '15937983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7924804031628432
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5320724873778392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7664396115843428
- Mean Citation Score: 357.44920600000006
- Max Citation Score: 381.53937
- Similarity Product: 376.9509047547877

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

Dataset: test