PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["384", "123000"]

Abstract:
A thrust bearing assembly for a machine includes a stator housing, a fluid film thrust bearing, and a ring bearing. The stator housing surrounds at least a segment of a rotor shaft and one or more runners on the rotor shaft that include a first runner surface and a second runner surface facing in opposite axial directions along the rotor shaft. The fluid film thrust bearing is axially held between a first stator surface of the stator housing and the first runner surface. The fluid film thrust bearing is configured to generate a fluid cushion that blocks the first runner surface from engaging the fluid film thrust bearing. The ring bearing is axially held between a second stator surface of the stator housing and the second runner surface. The ring bearing has an annular contact surface that engages the second runner surface to axially support the rotor shaft.

Claim (Index 9):
The thrust bearing assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the fluid film thrust bearing is a hydrostatic air thrust bearing configured to generate the fluid cushion by directing fluid from an external fluid source between the fluid film thrust bearing and the first runner surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64407
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10608975', '12753139', '11148178', '13836673', '15793828']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8258713305978032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.50030297180495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7933144947185179
- Mean Citation Score: 265.798204
- Max Citation Score: 270.97656
- Similarity Product: 202.6080529488802

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

Dataset: test