PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871355
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["440", "053000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a modular azimuth thruster for propelling a vessel, having a thruster housing around which water flows, and comprising: a standardized core unit having a core unit housing forming part of the thruster housing, a transmission line arranged within in the core unit housing, comprising a propeller shaft extending in a longitudinal direction of the thruster housing, and a propeller arranged outside the thruster housing and being operationally connected to the propeller shaft. The present invention further relates to a vessel comprising an azimuth thruster and a method of configuring an azimuth thruster.

Claim (Index 3):
An azimuth thruster according to any of  claims 1 , wherein the thruster housing comprises a stub part, one end of which is adapted for being rotatably mounting on a vessel, and a torpedo part arranged at an opposite end of the stub part, and wherein the hydrodynamic elements constitute a part of both the stub part and of the torpedo part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15024162', '11733788', '15120519', '15811783', '15202112']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6469826880265138
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5739971206568115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6396841312895436
- Mean Citation Score: 281.688314
- Max Citation Score: 496.81857
- Similarity Product: 416.52289041326

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

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