PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["384", "103000"]

Abstract:
A rheometer has a shaft, which is supported rotatably in a gas bearing. The gas bearing has a first bearing element (rotor) attached to the shaft and a second bearing element (stator) that surrounds the first bearing element (rotor) with a distance between the two, forming a bearing gap. At least sections of the second bearing element (stator) are made from a gas-permeable material, and gas is passed through them in such manner that a gas cushion is formed in the bearing gap, by which the first bearing element (rotor) and the shaft are supported without direct contact between the two. It is provided that the first bearing element (rotor) is also made from a gas-permeable material, at least in the areas that face the second bearing element (stator), and which the gas penetrates and forms a preferably static gaseous layer close to the surface as a result of the dynamic pressure or backpressure of the gas.

Claim (Index 4):
The rheometer according to  claim 1 , wherein the cross-sectional area of the bearing gap measured in a radial plane is equal in the axial end to the corresponding cross-sectional area in its axial central portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44595
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12913991', '14664349', '13318966', '15551061', '12315299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7814823342939744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4897384444662681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7523079453112037
- Mean Citation Score: 156.48801
- Max Citation Score: 161.787
- Similarity Product: 100.1729737511873

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

Dataset: test