PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["384", "117000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to tilting pad bearing assemblies, bearing apparatuses including the tilting pad bearing assemblies, and methods of using the bearing apparatuses. The tilting pad bearing assemblies disclosed herein include a plurality of tilting pads. At least some of the superhard tables exhibit a thickness that is at least about 0.120 inch and/or at least two layers having different wear and/or thermal characteristics.

Claim (Index 5):
The tilting pad bearing assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of tilting pads includes:\n a plurality of second tilting pads, each superhard table of the plurality of second tilting pads includes the lower layer extending from the lower surface towards the superhard bearing surface and the upper layer extending from at least a portion of the superhard bearing surface towards the lower surface, the lower layer exhibiting the lower average grain size and the upper layer exhibiting the upper average grain size, the lower average grain size being at least two times the upper average grain size; and a plurality of fourth tilting pads, each superhard table of the plurality of fourth tilting pads includes a substantially uniform grain size therethrough.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57778
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15747362', '13089725', '14631596', '15653333', '15528709']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8352473539829426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523910054678019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8041136240524502
- Mean Citation Score: 329.997472
- Max Citation Score: 341.0313
- Similarity Product: 219.87444204640389

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

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