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 11):
The ink-jet printer according to  claim 9 , further comprising:\n a cap facing the recording head in a case that the carriage is positioned in a second position which is a position displaced in the main scanning direction from the sheet facing area, the second position being different from the first position; and a cap shifter configured to move the cap relative to the recording head, between a covering position closely contacting the recording head to cover the nozzle and a separated position separated from the recording head, and wherein under a condition that the command receiver receives the preceding command, the controller controls the carriage and the cap shifter to execute, in parallel, in raising the drive voltage:\n taking the cap off the recording head by changing a relative position of the recording head and the cap from the covering position to the separated position; and \n moving the carriage from the second position toward the first position, in a case that the cap and the recording head are separated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65625
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15470601', '15470681', '15470644', '15696449', '15470392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7980353823917592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5665304606344116
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7748848902160245
- Mean Citation Score: 404.493922
- Max Citation Score: 464.74884
- Similarity Product: 392.6850819070529

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