PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "010000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a drop-on demand (DOD) jetting device having a nozzle, a pressure chamber filled with a liquid and connected to the nozzle and an actuator energized by a drive signal, wherein a periodic DOD signal determines whether or not a droplet is jetted out from the nozzle in a given DOD period, and the drive signal has a waveform configured to cause the actuator to excite a pressure wave in the liquid, the method further comprising the steps of a) energizing the actuator with a waveform that has a fixed pattern and extends over a time interval that is longer than the given DOD period; and b) ignoring the DOD signal in at least the first DOD period that follows after said period for which the step a) has been performed.

Claim (Index 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said waveform contains at least a pre-fire pulse and a jetting pulse which have a fixed time relation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85897
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15913763', '10946474', '12426145', '11639577', '11321941']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7447161641077584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894084965761261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7191853973545952
- Mean Citation Score: 178.123126
- Max Citation Score: 181.87874
- Similarity Product: 122.97914650286197

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

Dataset: test