PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["384", "103000"]

Abstract:
A foil bearing ( 40 ) includes foils ( 42 ) at a plurality of portions in a rotation direction of a shaft member ( 11 ). A top foil portion (Tf) including a bearing surface (S 2 ) is formed in a region including a front end ( 421 ) of each of the foils ( 42 ), and a back foil portion (Bf) is formed in a region including a rear end ( 422 ) of each of the foils ( 42 ). A gap (C 1 ) is secured between, of two of the foils adjacent to the foil ( 42 ) in a rotation direction (R) and a direction opposite to the rotation direction, the rear end ( 422 ) of the foil on the rotation direction side and the front end ( 421 ) of the foil on the side opposite to the rotation direction side. A width of the gap (C 1 ) is set to be non-uniform in a direction (N) orthogonal to the rotation direction.

Claim (Index 5):
The foil bearing according to  claim 2 , wherein, of two lateral ends located on both lateral sides at the front end of the foil, the width of the gap is set larger on one lateral end than on another lateral end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18333
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15103002', '15767671', '15102038', '14235580', '15780016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7949055403940273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5244284059343478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7678578269480593
- Mean Citation Score: 290.580726
- Max Citation Score: 333.7315700000001
- Similarity Product: 277.49895211943453

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