PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16073086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["384", "322000"]

Abstract:
A journal bearing includes: a carrier ring; a plurality of bearing pads disposed on a radially inner side of a lower half region of the carrier ring and configured to support a rotor shaft from below; a pair of side plates disposed on both sides of the plurality of bearing pads, with respect to an axial direction of the rotor shaft; and a dam disposed on a radially inner side of the carrier ring, in a downstream section of an upper half region of the carrier ring, and configured to suppress a downstream flow of carried-over oil. A gap is provided between inner peripheral surfaces of the respective side plates and an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft, for bringing into communication an outside and a bearing interior space surrounded by the pair of side plates.

Claim (Index 6):
The journal bearing according to  claim 5 ,\n further comprising a pair of guide metals disposed in the upper half region of the carrier ring so as to cover an upper region of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft, wherein the scraper is disposed between the pair of guide metals, and wherein each of the guide metals includes at least one second discharge passage for discharging the lubricant oil scraped off by the scraper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19403
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16079411', '16086704', '16086473', '15513839', '12623704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7977275668530881
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5054327910681632
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7684980892745956
- Mean Citation Score: 264.17788
- Max Citation Score: 299.03998
- Similarity Product: 233.60300717119333

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

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