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 1):
A foil bearing for supporting a shaft, said bearing comprising,\n a sleeve-type bearing housing; at least one elastic corrugated foil arranged on an inner circumference of the bearing housing; and a respective top foil covering each of the at least one elastic corrugated foil, secured to the inner circumference of the bearing housing, and forming a bearing surface; wherein insertion grooves are formed in the inner circumference of the bearing housing, the insertion grooves extending along surface lines, running obliquely outwardly and holding at least the two end edges of the top foil which delimit the top foil in a circumferential direction and which run substantially in the circumferential direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79167
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15102038', '14875520', '13441811', '13500864', '13789725']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891241257734397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4755259820645439
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7577643114025502
- Mean Citation Score: 218.006646
- Max Citation Score: 228.40462
- Similarity Product: 192.4909915203917

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