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 6):
The foil bearing of  claim 5 , wherein the corrugated foils include a first corrugated foil that has a height of corrugation that decreases in a direction from a central region of the first corrugated foil toward to the end edges of the first corrugated foil.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32759
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16060207', '15102038', '13441811', '13950107', '13500864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8047940302139608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5156608736785816
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7758807145604228
- Mean Citation Score: 239.91998000000004
- Max Citation Score: 307.82767
- Similarity Product: 212.74821660093428

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