PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["384", "320000"]

Abstract:
A bearing assembly comprising a bearing shell, thrust bearing pads, and journal bearing pads, where the thrust bearing pads and/or the journal bearing pads have through-pad lubricating gas distributors comprising at least one of a porous layer having connected-through porosity, a dense layer having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough, or a porous layer having connected-through porosity having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough.

Claim (Index 7):
The bearing assembly according to  claim 5  further comprising\n a journal bearing pad gap sensor operatively disposed to sense a measure of a gap between a first journal bearing pad of the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads and a shaft journal; and \n a controller in signal communication with the journal bearing pad gap sensor and operatively disposed to receive signals from the journal bearing pad gap sensor, the controller operatively configured to control the flow regulator associated with the lubricating gas inlet port operatively connected to the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads responsive to signals from the journal bearing pad gap sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14655467', '14314218', '15034946', '14457445', '13484751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7850556053673001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.485463813779144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7550964262084846
- Mean Citation Score: 206.593632
- Max Citation Score: 211.52026
- Similarity Product: 150.34082025070668

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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