PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060168
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["384", "103000"]

Abstract:
A foil bearing for supporting a shaft includes a sleeve-type bearing housing with three foil arrangements distributed around the inner circumference of the baring housing. Each foil arrangement covers a circumferential segment of the bearing housing. Each foil arrangement has a corrugated foil lying against an inner wall of the housing, and a top foil covering the corrugated foil. Each of the corrugated foil and the top foil has respective end edges. Each of the end edges are supported within the inner wall of the housing in a sliding manner. In particular, insertion grooves are formed in the inner surface of the housing which extend obliquely into the housing wall outwardly. The insertion grooves receive the end edges of the corrugated foil and the top foil.

Claim (Index 1):
A foil bearing for supporting a shaft, said bearing comprising:\n a sleeve-type bearing housing with three foil arrangements distributed around an inner circumference of the bearing housing, each foil arrangement:\n covering a circumferential segment of the bearing housing, \n having a corrugated foil lying against an inner surface of the bearing housing; and \n having a top foil covering said corrugated foil and having end edges delimiting the top foil in a circumferential direction, the end edges supported by the inner surface of the housing, \n wherein insertion grooves are formed in the inner surface of the housing, the grooves extending along surface lines and projecting obliquely outwardly into the housing, each of said grooves holding one of the end edges and one end edge of the associated corrugated foil, and wherein with a circular cross-sectional inner contour of the bearing housing the corrugated foils have corrugated heights that decrease starting from a respective central region in relation to the circumferential direction of the bearing housing towards their respective end edges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32759
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16060207', '15102038', '13441811', '13950107', '13500864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7863662108391885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025366290251285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7579832526577825
- Mean Citation Score: 239.91998000000004
- Max Citation Score: 307.82767
- Similarity Product: 279.71786301254747

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