PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944531
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["384", "619000"]

Abstract:
A bearing assembly, for example a thrust bearing assembly including first and second rings is provided with alternating high and low modulus rolling elements. The low modulus rolling elements have a greater diameter than the high modulus rolling elements so as to initially bear a relatively greater percentage of applied loads.

Claim (Index 1):
A bearing assembly comprising:\n a first ring with a first raceway and a second ring with a second raceway and a ball track defined between the raceways; a plurality of high modulus rolling elements having a first diameter disposed in the ball track; and a plurality of low modulus rolling elements having a second diameter and disposed in the ball track in an alternating relationship with the high modulus rolling elements, the second diameter being greater than the first diameter, wherein a ratio of the first diameter to the second diameter is configured to:\n distribute an externally applied load to both the high modulus rolling elements and the low modulus rolling elements, \n initially distribute more of the externally applied load to the low modulus rolling elements, and \n after usage of the bearing assembly and wear of the low modulus rolling elements, distribute the load more evenly between the high modulus rolling elements and the low modulus rolling elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38462
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10119083', '13713096', '10643806', '14290512', '12738517']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7587655151184767
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4603916216967225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7289281257763013
- Mean Citation Score: 132.44826799999998
- Max Citation Score: 137.72191999999998
- Similarity Product: 102.20530850601196

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

Dataset: test