PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "036000"]

Abstract:
A waste ink storage mechanism of the present disclosure includes a waste ink tank, a waste ink tank fitting portion and a capacitance sensor. The waste ink tank stores a waste ink exhausted from a recording head. The waste ink tank is fitted to the waste ink tank fitting portion such that the waste ink tank can be fitted into and removed from the waste ink tank fitting portion. The capacitance sensor is provided in the waste ink tank fitting portion so as to detect that a liquid surface within the waste ink tank reaches a predetermined level. The waste ink tank includes: a first surface in which an inflow port through which the waste ink flows in is formed; and a second surface, and the capacitance sensor is arranged close to the second surface.

Claim (Index 8):
The waste ink storage mechanism according to  claim 7 , further comprising:\n a tank cover which is arranged on an upstream side in the direction of the fitting of the waste ink tank, wherein in a state where the tank cover is closed, the tank cover abuts on a side surface of the waste ink tank on the upstream side in the direction of the fitting, the waste ink tank is arranged in a predetermined position of the waste ink tank fitting portion and the capacitance sensor abuts on the second surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48276
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15987495', '11722430', '12486109', '12490648', '13753481']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7511299382230502
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739604856871419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7234129929694594
- Mean Citation Score: 208.37774
- Max Citation Score: 215.87148
- Similarity Product: 174.41066449011325

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

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