PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "030000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, printing is performed in a print mode with a higher ink flow rate per unit time period in a case where a time period from a time when an ink sucking operation is performed is longer, and printing is performed in a print mode with a lower ink flow rate per unit time period in a case where the time period is shorter.

Claim (Index 16):
A printing method comprising:\n conveying a printing medium in a conveying direction; discharging ink from a discharge port array from a print head in which a plurality of discharge ports is aligned in a cross direction which crosses the conveying direction while conveying the printing medium to form an image on the printing medium; and sucking ink from the discharge ports to supply ink stored in an ink tank to the print head, wherein a speed at which the printing medium is conveyed when forming the image on the printing medium depends on an elapsed time after the sucking performs an ink sucking operation, (i) the printing medium is conveyed for forming the image on the printing medium at a first speed in a case where an elapsed time after the sucking performs an ink sucking operation is longer than a first threshold value, and (ii) the printing medium is conveyed for forming the image on the printing medium at a second speed that is lower than the first speed in a case where an elapsed time after the sucking performs the ink sucking operation is shorter than a first threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15334177', '14828981', '13358765', '15937702', '15659304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7204651675004342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5234769838114376
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7007663491315346
- Mean Citation Score: 257.333272
- Max Citation Score: 338.12656
- Similarity Product: 280.8705009872055

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

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