PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "010000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an ink-jet printer comprising: a recording head, an electric power supply, and a controller which is configured: to determine an ink amount in which an ink is jetted by the recording head in a flushing processing; in a case that the determined ink amount is less than a first ink amount, to boost a driving voltage of the electric power supply to a target voltage value, in accordance with a predetermined first voltage boosting pattern; and in a case that the determined ink amount is not less than the first ink amount, to boost the driving voltage to the target voltage value, in accordance with a predetermined second voltage boosting pattern in which a voltage boosting time is shorter than that in the first voltage boosting pattern. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten FPOT while reducing the load on the constitutive elements of the ink-jet printer.

Claim (Index 8):
The ink-jet printer according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to repeat three processings for M times, the three processings including:\n instructing the power supply to boost the driving voltage to a set voltage value V; after elapse of a stand-by time T since the instructing, obtaining a value of the driving voltage output by the power supply for N times at a sampling interval Ito obtain N pieces of values of the driving voltage; and determining whether or not a representative value of the obtained N pieces of values is not less than a threshold value Th which is lower than the set voltage value V, wherein in a case that the controller determines that the representative value is not less than the threshold value Th, the controller is configured to raise the set voltage value V and the threshold value Th, and to repeat instructing the power supply to boost the driving voltage to the set voltage value V again, and wherein in the second voltage boosting pattern, the threshold value Th is smaller than that in the first voltage boosting pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57143
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15911322', '15924580', '15470644', '15470681', '15470601']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7947153914150603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5418828691228114
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7694321391858354
- Mean Citation Score: 317.653862
- Max Citation Score: 398.70212
- Similarity Product: 360.30672325459

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