PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876722
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["347", "008000"]

Abstract:
An inkjet printer is provided, which is configured to acquire gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and a recording sheet in each individual position of top-formed positions and bottom-formed positions within a predetermined wave-shape generating range, identify, when the predetermined wave-shape generating range includes a partial range in which the recording sheet is not placed, a top-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired and a bottom-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired, within the partial range, complement the unacquired gap information in the identified top-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other top-formed positions, and complement the unacquired gap information in the identified bottom-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other bottom-formed positions.

Claim (Index 1):
An inkjet printer comprising:\n an inkjet head configured to discharge ink droplets from nozzles formed in an ink discharging surface thereof; a sheet conveyor configured to convey a recording sheet in a conveyance direction; a sheet deforming mechanism configured to deform, in a predetermined range in a specific direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction and parallel to the ink discharging surface, the recording sheet in a particular wave shape that has one or more top portions and one or more bottom portions, the one or more bottom portions being farther away from the ink discharging surface than the one or more top portions in a particular direction orthogonal to the ink discharging surface, the one or more top portions and the one or more bottom portions being aligned in the specific direction; a notification device; and a controller configured to:\n acquire gap information related to a gap between the ink discharging surface and the recording sheet in each individual position of one or more top-formed positions and one or more bottom-formed positions, each of the one or more top-formed positions being a position where a corresponding top portion is formed on the recording sheet, each of the one or more bottom-formed positions being a position where a corresponding bottom portion is formed on the recording sheet; \n identify at least one of a specific top-formed position where the gap information is not acquired and a specific bottom-formed position where the gap information is not acquired, from among the one or more top-formed positions and the one or more bottom-formed positions; and \n control the notification device to provide a notification in response to identifying the at least one of the specific top-formed position and the specific bottom-formed position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58621
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14879927', '15369323', '13729697', '14542025', '14535845']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7968767167363605
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6074498705470698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7779340321174315
- Mean Citation Score: 500.474654
- Max Citation Score: 527.1626
- Similarity Product: 521.2418769957782

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