PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["384", "420000"]

Abstract:
An axial load management system for a turbomachine including a rotating drivetrain, a thrust bearing assembly, a sensor, and a valve supply line. The rotating drivetrain includes a compressor section and an expander section fluidly coupled together by a closed flowpath. The thrust bearing assembly includes a thrust runner, a thrust bearing housing, and a gas thrust bearing extending between the thrust runner and the thrust bearing housing. Further, the gas thrust bearing supports the rotating drivetrain. The sensor is attached to at least one of the thrust bearing housing or the gas thrust bearing. The valve supply line is fluidly coupled to the closed flowpath. A valve positioned within the valve supply line selectively allows a working fluid to flow between the closed flowpath and a thrust chamber defined by a rotating surface and a fixed surface to modify an axial load on the rotating drivetrain.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising:\n determining a derivative of the axial load on the gas thrust bearing using the sensor communicatively coupled to the controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15131173', '15562903', '10862136', '11456667', '13142578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7512655613191512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013821109197675
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7262772162792128
- Mean Citation Score: 213.62742000000003
- Max Citation Score: 219.63605
- Similarity Product: 143.7238464138299

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

Dataset: test