PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["347", "012000"]

Abstract:
A liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus includes: N nozzles; N driving elements; M power supply circuits that create a driving signal to be selectively supplied to the N driving elements; and N selecting circuits that selectively connect one of the M power supply circuits to a corresponding one of the N driving elements. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a first combination until a particular condition is satisfied. The first combination is a combination between the M power supply circuits and an M driving element groups, into which the N driving elements are divided based on a voltage of the supplied driving signal. The N driving elements are connected to the M power supply circuits in a second combination after the particular condition is satisfied. The second combination is another combination between the M driving element groups and the M power supply circuits.

Claim (Index 11):
A liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus, comprising:\n an N number of nozzles; an N number of driving elements provided respectively corresponding to the N number of nozzles; an M number of power supply circuits each configured to create a driving signal to be selectively supplied to a corresponding one of the N number of driving elements; an N number of selecting circuits disposed between the N number of driving elements and the M number of power supply circuits and configured to selectively connect one of the M number of power supply circuits to a corresponding one of the N number of driving elements; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to control the N number of selecting circuits such that the N number of driving elements are connected to the M number of power supply circuits in a first combination until a particular condition is satisfied, the first combination being a combination between an M number of driving element groups and the M number of power supply circuits respectively corresponding to the M number of driving element groups, the N number of driving elements being divided into the M number of driving element groups based on a voltage of the supplied driving signal, wherein the M number of driving element groups comprise a first driving element group and a second driving element group different from the first driving element group, wherein the M number of power supply circuits comprise: a first power supply circuit corresponding to the first driving element group in the first combination; and a second power supply circuit corresponding to the second driving element group in the first combination, wherein the number of driving elements in the first driving element group is greater than the number of driving elements in the second driving element group, and wherein the first power supply circuit is disposed at a position at which an amount of heat transferred from a heat source disposed in the liquid-droplet ejecting apparatus is less than an amount of heat transferred from the heat source to a position at which the second power supply circuit is disposed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82143
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11210968', '10807921', '14882543', '10845135', '12045447']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7371584308624556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4610693208167473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7095495198578847
- Mean Citation Score: 173.28061200000005
- Max Citation Score: 177.48721
- Similarity Product: 143.30776256806732

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