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 4):
The ink replenishment assist apparatus according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the conduit is configured and arranged such that, in the in-use state, the first opening is positioned in a larger space in the ink tank than the ink inlet.

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): 0.7783840185206953
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746499254017515
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7480106092088009
- Mean Citation Score: 175.53456200000005
- Max Citation Score: 191.81541
- Similarity Product: 143.64491188942372

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

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