PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891099
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["029", "889100"]

Abstract:
A method for performing uptower maintenance of a wind turbine in order to replace the main bearing on the turbine shaft is disclosed. Embodiments of this method to perform maintenance may include installing a rotor lock to resist rotation of the main shaft during maintenance, providing a lifting device in order to elevate the main shaft, removing the main bearing from its main bearing housing, and installing a replacement split main bearing. A crane may also be installed uptower to assist in the maintenance.

Claim (Index 30):
The method of  claim 23 , further comprising repairing the main shaft after the main bearing and the top half bearing housing and the bottom half bearing housing of the main bearing housing are removed, and before the installing a replacement top portion and a replacement bottom portion of the bearing housing and the split main bearing are installed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14507429', '15007478', '14034763', '12263068', '15498682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8668296616586372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5565676638309501
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8358034618758685
- Mean Citation Score: 266.74660800000004
- Max Citation Score: 444.55627
- Similarity Product: 352.0973876391506

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

Dataset: test