PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871355
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["440", "053000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a modular azimuth thruster for propelling a vessel, having a thruster housing around which water flows, and comprising: a standardized core unit having a core unit housing forming part of the thruster housing, a transmission line arranged within in the core unit housing, comprising a propeller shaft extending in a longitudinal direction of the thruster housing, and a propeller arranged outside the thruster housing and being operationally connected to the propeller shaft. The present invention further relates to a vessel comprising an azimuth thruster and a method of configuring an azimuth thruster.

Claim (Index 1):
An azimuth thruster for propelling a vessel, having a thruster housing around which water flows, and comprising:\n a standardized core unit having a core unit housing forming part of the thruster housing, a transmission line arranged within in the core unit housing, comprising a propeller shaft extending in a longitudinal direction of the thruster housing, and a propeller arranged outside the thruster housing and being operationally connected to the propeller shaft, wherein, the azimuth thruster is configurable as both a pulling azimuth thruster and a pushing azimuth thruster by comprising first and second hydrodynamic elements mounted on matching first and second core unit interfaces defined by exterior surface areas of the core unit housing, the hydrodynamic elements forming part of the thruster housing to control the flow of water around the thruster housing, and the core unit interfaces being adapted for receiving different hydrodynamic elements having different hydrodynamic properties.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15024162', '11733788', '15120519', '15811783', '15202112']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6166420522720781
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5784049442476702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6128183414696373
- Mean Citation Score: 281.688314
- Max Citation Score: 496.81857
- Similarity Product: 451.3909496680194

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