PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["384", "276000"]

Abstract:
A foil bearing for supporting a shaft includes a sleeve-type baring housing, at least one elastic corrugated foil arranged on the inner circumference of the bearing housing, and a respective top foil covering each corrugated foil and forming a bearing surface. The bearing housing includes insertion grooves defined therein that extend from the inner surface of the bearing housing and outwardly. The fop foil and the corrugated foil each have ends that are inserted into and received by the insertion grooves.

Claim (Index 3):
The foil bearing according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one corrugated foil is delimited in the circumferential direction by end edges which are substantially in parallel contact with the associated top foils, the insertion grooves are configured such that they hold the end edge pairs in parallel contact with one another with a sliding fit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79167
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15102038', '14875520', '13441811', '13500864', '13789725']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8073214120015747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839837463762431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7749876454390415
- Mean Citation Score: 218.006646
- Max Citation Score: 228.40462
- Similarity Product: 179.8427907547104

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

Dataset: test