PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["347", "012000"]

Abstract:
A liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus includes: N nozzles; N driving elements; M power supply circuits that create a driving signal to be selectively supplied to the N driving elements; and N selecting circuits that selectively connect one of the M power supply circuits to a corresponding one of the N driving elements. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a first combination until a particular condition is satisfied. The first combination is a combination between the M power supply circuits and an M driving element groups, into which the N driving elements are divided based on a voltage of the supplied driving signal. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a second combination after the particular condition is satisfied. The second combination is another combination between the M driving element groups and the M power supply circuits.

Claim (Index 1):
A liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus, comprising:\n an N number of nozzles; an N number of driving elements provided respectively corresponding to the N number of nozzles; an M number of power supply circuits each configured to create a driving signal to be selectively supplied to a corresponding one of the N number of driving elements; an N number of selecting circuits disposed between the N number of driving elements and the M number of power supply circuits and configured to selectively connect one of the M number of power supply circuits to a corresponding one of the N number of driving elements; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to perform:\n controlling the N number of selecting circuits such that the N number of driving elements are connected to the M number of power supply circuits in a first combination until a particular condition is satisfied, the first combination being a combination between an M number of driving element groups and the M number of power supply circuits respectively corresponding to the M number of driving element groups, the N number of driving elements being divided into the M number of driving element groups based on a voltage of the supplied driving signal; and \n controlling the N number of selecting circuits such that the N number of driving elements are connected to the M number of power supply circuits in a second combination after the particular condition is satisfied, the second combination being a combination between the M number of driving element groups and the M number of power supply circuits respectively corresponding to the M number of driving element groups, the second combination being different from the first combination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82143
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11210968', '10807921', '14882543', '10845135', '12045447']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7376328069830561
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4587243947236304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7097419657571136
- Mean Citation Score: 173.28061200000005
- Max Citation Score: 177.48721
- Similarity Product: 146.0809579080689

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

Dataset: test