PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986962
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["384", "123000"]

Abstract:
A half thrust bearing includes a sliding surface for receiving an axial force of a crankshaft of an engine, and a rear surface on an opposite side thereto. The sliding surface includes a flat surface portion near a circumferentially central portion, and two inclined flat surface portions on both circumferential sides of the flat surface portion. The axial distance between the rear surface and the sliding surface is maximum at the flat surface portion. At any radial positions, the axial distance in each inclined flat surface portion is maximum on a circumferentially central portion side and is reduced toward a circumferential end portion of the half thrust bearing. Each inclined flat surface portion is arranged to form one constant thickness portion extending linearly from a radially inner end to a radially outer end at a circumferential angle of 45°.

Claim (Index 6):
The half thrust bearing according to  claim 1 , wherein a difference between the axial distance in the flat surface portion and the axial distance in both circumferential end portions at the radially outer ends of the half thrust bearing is 50 to 800 \u03bcm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15978345', '14964912', '14967800', '15246672', '15246714']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8352660607640785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5955903114159845
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8112984858292691
- Mean Citation Score: 379.863896
- Max Citation Score: 503.7315
- Similarity Product: 501.6552894281744

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

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