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 5):
The bearing assembly according to  claim 1  wherein the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads each comprise through-pad lubricating gas distributors, wherein the one or more lubricating gas inlet ports comprise a lubricating gas inlet port operatively connected to the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads, the bearing assembly further comprising:\n a regulator associated with the lubricating gas inlet port operatively connected to the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads for flow and/or pressure control of lubricating gas to the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads.

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): 0.7855965662086615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4822025722650985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7552571668143051
- Mean Citation Score: 206.593632
- Max Citation Score: 211.52026
- Similarity Product: 155.8825746707976

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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