PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["141", "383000"]

Abstract:
At least one of making an ink replenishing operation easy and making it possible to select one out of a plurality of types of ink replenishment containers in order to perform ink replenishment is achieved. An ink replenishment assist apparatus includes a plug detachably mounted to the ink inlet of an ink tank and a conduit. The conduit has a first opening open to the inside of the ink tank in an in-use state of the ink replenishment assist apparatus, a second opening positioned on an opposite side to the first opening, and open to the outside of the ink tank, and a channel that brings the first opening and the second opening into communication with each other.

Claim (Index 13):
The ink replenishment apparatus according to  claim 12 ,\n wherein the ink replenishment container includes an ink outlet, and a sealing portion that can open/close the ink outlet, and is configured such that the conduit on the second opening side is inserted into the sealing portion when the ink replenishment container is connected to the ink replenishment assist apparatus, and the ink replenishment assist apparatus is configured such that a force required to remove the plug of the ink replenishment assist apparatus from the ink inlet is larger than a force required to remove the sealing portion of the ink replenishment container from the conduit of the ink replenishment assist apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03279
- Patent Class: 141.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15909514', '15650161', '14914805', '15905022', '10805254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7766739825849035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843510012118174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.747441684447595
- Mean Citation Score: 175.53456200000005
- Max Citation Score: 191.81541
- Similarity Product: 130.32267599096778

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

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