PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "047000"]

Abstract:
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit and a pump. The liquid ejecting apparatus has a supply channel, a return channel, and a communication channel. The supply channel is designed to be able to supply the liquid from a liquid supply source to the nozzle. The return channel has ends connected to the supply channel and forms, together with the supply channel, a circulation channel. The communication channel is connected to the return channel and allows communication between an inside of the return channel and an outside. In a state in which the return channel communicates with the outside through the communication channel, the pump is driven so as to perform a return-channel replacement operation in which the liquid in the return channel is discharged to the supply channel side.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of discharging liquid in a liquid ejecting apparatus, the liquid ejecting apparatus including:\n a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid from a nozzle, a supply channel designed to supply the liquid from a liquid supply source to the nozzle, a return channel that has ends connected to the supply channel and that forms, together with the supply channel, a circulation channel, and a communication channel that is connected to the return channel and that allows communication between an inside of the return channel and an outside, wherein the method including: performing, in a state in which the return channel communicates with the outside through the communication channel, a return-channel replacement operation in which the liquid in the return channel is discharged to the supply channel side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69811
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15719226', '15799708', '15868820', '14059145', '15426853']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7416762881760414
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874085160129542
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7162495109597327
- Mean Citation Score: 222.1729
- Max Citation Score: 244.94731
- Similarity Product: 213.0521264772617

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

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