PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898765
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A printer performs a multi-pass printing including: (a) pass process executed with Ka number of nozzles; (c1) pass process executed with Kc1 number of nozzles; (c2) pass process executed with Kc2 number of nozzles; and (b) pass process executed with Kb number of nozzles. Kc1 and Kc2 are greater than or equal to Kb and smaller than Ka. An upstream gradient of dot recording rates of (c1) pass process is greater than a gradient of (a) pass process. A downstream gradient of (c1) pass process is the same as the gradient of (a) pass process. An upstream gradient of (c2)-pass process is the same as a gradient of (b) pass process. A downstream gradient of (c2)-pass process is greater than the gradient of the (a) pass process. Kc1 is greater than Kc2.

Claim (Index 6):
The printer according to  claim 2 , wherein the multi-pass printing includes (3\u00d7j) number of executions of pass processes as the plurality of pass processes, where j is an integer greater than or equal to 1,\n wherein the dot recording rates of the K-number of active nozzles decreases at the upstream gradient from an uniform section of the K-number of active nozzles toward the most-upstream nozzle of the K-number of active nozzles in the conveying direction, the uniform section including positions of nozzles each having the maximum dot recording rate among the dot recording rates of the K-number of active nozzles, the dot recording rates decreasing at the downstream gradient from the uniform section toward the most-downstream nozzle of the K-number of active nozzles in the conveying direction; wherein the (C)-print process includes:\n j number of executions of the (C1)-pass process; \n j number of executions of the (C2)-pass process after the (C1)-pass process is executed j times; and \n executing, after the (C1)-pass process is executed j times before an initial execution of the j number of executions of the (C2)-pass process is performed, a (C3)-pass process with KC3 number of active nozzles j times, the upstream gradient and the downstream gradient of the dot recording rates of the KC3 number of active nozzles used in the (C3)-pass process being the same as the upstream gradient and the downstream gradient of the dot recording rates of the KC1 number of active nozzles used when j-th (C1)-pass process is executed, respectively, a length of the uniform section of the dot recording rates of the KC3 number of active nozzles used in the (C3)-pass process being longer than a length of the uniform section of the dot recording rates of the KC1 number of active nozzles used when j-th (C1)-pass process is executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.67391
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15493435', '15045450', '15045604', '15045706', '15471686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8403500694102076
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6931861388337154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8256336763525585
- Mean Citation Score: 543.713694
- Max Citation Score: 765.8697
- Similarity Product: 704.0557677892327

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