PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060168
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["384", "103000"]

Abstract:
A foil bearing for supporting a shaft includes a sleeve-type bearing housing with three foil arrangements distributed around the inner circumference of the baring housing. Each foil arrangement covers a circumferential segment of the bearing housing. Each foil arrangement has a corrugated foil lying against an inner wall of the housing, and a top foil covering the corrugated foil. Each of the corrugated foil and the top foil has respective end edges. Each of the end edges are supported within the inner wall of the housing in a sliding manner. In particular, insertion grooves are formed in the inner surface of the housing which extend obliquely into the housing wall outwardly. The insertion grooves receive the end edges of the corrugated foil and the top foil.

Claim (Index 10):
A foil bearing comprising:\n a bearing housing having an inner surface sized to receive a central shaft, the inner surface defining a plurality of insertion grooves extending outwardly therefrom; a plurality of first foils, each of the first foils having two end edges; and a plurality of second foils, each of the second foils located radially between the bearing housing and a respective one of the first foils, each of the second foils having two end edges; wherein each end edge of the first foil engages with a respective one of the end edges of one of the second foils within a respective one of the insertion grooves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32759
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16060207', '15102038', '13441811', '13950107', '13500864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7861662725219197
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048745007088645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7580370953406141
- Mean Citation Score: 239.91998000000004
- Max Citation Score: 307.82767
- Similarity Product: 265.2623685316688

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

Dataset: test