PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["347", "017000"]

Abstract:
In some examples, a method of regulating a temperature of a printhead includes charging, in a first state of a temperature regulator, an analog memory to a reference voltage that corresponds to a predetermined temperature of the printhead. The temperature regulator monitors, during a second state, the temperature of the printhead, the monitoring including measuring a thermal voltage representing an actual temperature of at least a first local area of a plurality of local areas of the printhead, and comparing, with a comparator, the reference voltage to the thermal voltage to obtain a comparison result for at least the first local area. Based on the comparison result, a series of warming pulses from a warming pulse circuit to at least the first local area is selectively enabled.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of regulating a temperature of a printhead comprising a plurality of local areas, the method comprising:\n charging, in a first state of a temperature regulator, a local analog memory of a first local area of the plurality of local areas to a reference voltage that corresponds to a predetermined temperature of the printhead; controlling a transition of the temperature regulator between the first state and a second state of the temperature regulator using a timing signal from a global timing signal generator; monitoring, by the temperature regulator during the second state, the temperature of the printhead, the monitoring comprising:\n measuring, using a local temperature sensor of the first local area, a thermal voltage representing an actual temperature of the first local area, and \n comparing, with a local comparator of the first local area, the reference voltage to the thermal voltage to obtain a comparison result for the first local area; and \n based on the comparison result, selectively enabling a series of warming pulses from a warming pulse circuit to the first local area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25806
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14123799', '13754260', '14300712', '15242627', '16318205']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6729945027371457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4882866126393633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6545237137273675
- Mean Citation Score: 137.8137012
- Max Citation Score: 245.28223
- Similarity Product: 209.9401721587992

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

Dataset: test