PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["384", "320000"]

Abstract:
A bearing assembly comprising a bearing shell, thrust bearing pads, and journal bearing pads, where the thrust bearing pads and/or the journal bearing pads have through-pad lubricating gas distributors comprising at least one of a porous layer having connected-through porosity, a dense layer having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough, or a porous layer having connected-through porosity having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough.

Claim (Index 1):
A bearing assembly comprising:\n a bearing shell; a plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads, the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads housed on a shaft thrust runner-facing side of the bearing shell, wherein each of the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads has a shaft thrust runner-facing side and a bearing shell-facing side; a plurality of at least three journal bearing pads housed within the bearing shell, wherein each of the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads has a shaft journal-facing side and a bearing shell-facing side; wherein the bearing shell comprises one or more lubricating gas inlet ports; and wherein (i) each thrust bearing pad of the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads comprises through-pad lubricating gas distributors disposed on the shaft thrust runner-facing side of each respective thrust bearing pad, the through-pad lubricating gas distributors operatively connected to at least one of the one or more lubricating gas inlet ports and/or (ii) each journal bearing pad of the plurality of at least three journal bearing pads comprises through-pad lubricating gas distributors disposed on the shaft journal-facing side of each respective journal bearing pad, the through-pad lubricating gas distributors operatively connected to at least one of the one or more lubricating gas inlet ports, wherein the through-pad lubricating gas distributors comprise at least one of (i) a porous layer having connected-through porosity, (ii) a dense layer having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough, or (iii) a porous layer and having connected-through porosity having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14655467', '14314218', '15034946', '14457445', '13484751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7866443695689076
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.47587243813874
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7555671764258909
- Mean Citation Score: 206.593632
- Max Citation Score: 211.52026
- Similarity Product: 166.64697280149937

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

Dataset: test