PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860100
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["384", "475000"]

Abstract:
A bearing structure includes: a ball bearing disposed in a bearing hole formed in a housing of a turbocharger, the ball bearing having an outer ring formed with a damper portion on an outer circumferential surface thereof; an opposed member fixed to the housing, the opposed member opposed to the outer ring in an axial direction of a shaft; a protruding portion formed on one of the outer ring and the opposed member, the protruding portion protruding toward another one of the outer ring and the opposed member; and a regulating portion formed on the other one of the outer ring and the opposed member, the regulating portion opposed to the protruding portion in a rotation direction of the shaft.

Claim (Index 6):
The bearing structure according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein two ball bearings are provided in the bearing hole while separated from each other in the axial direction, and the opposed member is a spacer arranged between the two ball bearings to regulate movement of the two ball bearings in a direction approaching one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93182
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15030693', '14879338', '15842185', '15358682', '14122601']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8013067563570272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4983453761302246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7710106183343469
- Mean Citation Score: 213.130072
- Max Citation Score: 218.64946
- Similarity Product: 139.89564142537594

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

Dataset: test