PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "036000"]

Abstract:
A waste ink storage mechanism of the present disclosure includes a waste ink tank, a waste ink tank fitting portion and a capacitance sensor. The waste ink tank stores a waste ink exhausted from a recording head. The waste ink tank is fitted to the waste ink tank fitting portion such that the waste ink tank can be fitted into and removed from the waste ink tank fitting portion. The capacitance sensor is provided in the waste ink tank fitting portion so as to detect that a liquid surface within the waste ink tank reaches a predetermined level. The waste ink tank includes: a first surface in which an inflow port through which the waste ink flows in is formed; and a second surface, and the capacitance sensor is arranged close to the second surface.

Claim (Index 7):
The waste ink storage mechanism according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the capacitance sensor includes:\n a fixing portion which is fixed to the waste ink tank fitting portion; \n an electrode portion which detects that the liquid surface within the waste ink tank reaches the predetermined level; \n a holding portion which holds the electrode portion and which slides in directions of the fitting and removal with respect to the fixing portion; and \n a biasing member which biases the holding portion toward the second surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48276
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15987495', '11722430', '12486109', '12490648', '13753481']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7716116139523617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825018354997829
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7427006361071039
- Mean Citation Score: 208.37774
- Max Citation Score: 215.87148
- Similarity Product: 163.26358152796982

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

Dataset: test