PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945969
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "055000"]

Abstract:
An ink-jet printer including a conveyor, a carriage, a recording head, a power supply, an ink receiver, a command receiver, and a controller, is provided. The controller executes the steps of: determining a discharge ink amount that should be discharged to the ink receiver; raising a drive voltage to a first voltage when the discharge ink amount is less than a first threshold value, and raising the drive voltage to a second voltage when the discharge ink amount is the first threshold value or more; performing a flushing process; based on the flushing process after having raised the drive voltage to the second voltage having finished in the case of having raised the drive voltage to the second voltage, stepping down the drive voltage from the second voltage to the first voltage; and based on the flushing process having finished and on the drive voltage being the first voltage, performing a printing process.

Claim (Index 2):
The ink-jet printer according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the controller is further configured to determine a discharge ink amount that the recording head is to discharge toward the ink receiver before raising the drive voltage, and wherein the controller is configured to:\n raise the drive voltage to the first voltage in a case that the determined discharge ink amount is less than a first threshold value, as the condition is satisfied; and \n raise the drive voltage to the second voltage in a case that the determined discharge ink amount is not less than the first threshold value, as the condition is not satisfied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65625
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15470601', '15470681', '15470644', '15696449', '15470392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8170519675848431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5668916891022008
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7920359397365788
- Mean Citation Score: 404.493922
- Max Citation Score: 464.74884
- Similarity Product: 380.2481896539258

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