PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886302
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["384", "107000"]

Abstract:
A bearing structure includes: a housing; a bearing hole formed in the housing; a bearing, which is provided in the bearing hole, and is configured to axially support a shaft having one end provided with a turbine impeller; a space, which is formed in the housing, and is positioned between the impeller and the bearing hole; a passage, which communicates with the space, and extends to a vertically lower side of the bearing hole; a communication opening portion, which allows the passage and the bearing hole to communicate with each other; and a lower wall portion, which is provided in a lower portion including a portion directly below an axis of the shaft between the passage and the bearing hole, and has an inner wall surface being opposed to the shaft and having a curved surface shape with a curvature center positioned on the shaft side.

Claim (Index 10):
A bearing structure according to  claim 8 , wherein, in the clearance groove, at an opposed wall portion opposed to the shaft with a predetermined gap to the shaft in a radial direction of the shaft, the bearing structure has a narrow portion having a smaller gap with the shaft on the rear side in the rotation direction of the shaft over the portion directly above the axis of the shaft as compared to the front side in the rotation direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62903
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15885931', '15886361', '15862094', '15860100', '15862032']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7838693884453088
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5232665085380758
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7578091004545856
- Mean Citation Score: 263.24943399999995
- Max Citation Score: 317.09454
- Similarity Product: 230.01976531305309

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

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