PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["384", "106000"]

Abstract:
A gas bearing system has at least one gas bearing ( 30, 32, 34 ) with a moving part and a static part and which can be operated in both aero-dynamic and aero-static modes. The system has a source ( 36 ) of pressurised gas fluidly connected with the bearing and a control system ( 134 ) for regulating the supply of pressurised gas to the bearing in dependence on the rotational speed of the moving part. The system has particular application in a turbocharger ( 1 ) where a flow of pressurised gas from the source is introduced into the bearing at the start-up and slow down phases of operation of the turbocharger, the flow being stopped, or reduced, when the turbocharger has reached normal operating speeds.

Claim (Index 16):
A gas bearing system as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein the bottom surface of at least one of the grooves is curved so that the depth of the groove varies in a direction between its leading edge and its trailing edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14879338', '12697678', '13134118', '13500864', '15301433']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8041341092083216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5115227347344323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7748729717609327
- Mean Citation Score: 229.04194
- Max Citation Score: 241.66983
- Similarity Product: 135.0144147785747

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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