PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["290", "03600R"]

Abstract:
Hybrid turbine engines and methods of operating the same are disclosed herein. The hybrid turbine engines include a first thrust-generating device that includes a turbine with a turbine rotary shaft and a clutch, which includes a clutch input, which is operatively coupled to the turbine rotary shaft, and a clutch output. The clutch defines an engaged state and a disengaged state. The hybrid turbine engines also include a rotary electric machine including a machine rotary shaft that is operatively coupled to the clutch output, a second thrust-generating device that is operatively coupled to the machine rotary shaft, and an electric power system. The rotary electric machine is configured to selectively receive an electric power output from the electric power system, such as to selectively produce additional thrust, and to selectively receive in an input torque from the machine rotary shaft, such as to selectively produce additional electric power.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of operating a hybrid turbine engine, the method comprising:\n combusting a fuel within a turbine of a first thrust-generating device to rotate a turbine rotary shaft of the first thrust-generating device at a turbine rotary shaft rotational frequency, wherein the turbine rotary shaft is operatively coupled to a clutch input of a clutch, wherein the clutch includes a clutch output operatively coupled to a machine rotary shaft of a rotary electric machine, wherein the machine rotary shaft rotates at a machine rotary shaft rotational frequency, and further wherein a second thrust-generating device is operatively coupled to the machine rotary shaft; selectively providing an electric power input to the rotary electric machine with an electric power system, wherein, responsive to receipt of the electric power input by the rotary electric machine, the method further includes generating an output torque that rotates the machine rotary shaft and the second thrust-generating device; and selectively receiving an input torque from the second thrust-generating device with the rotary electric machine, wherein, responsive to receipt of the input torque by the rotary electric machine, the method further includes generating an electric power output with the rotary electric machine and providing the electric power output to the electric power system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82456
- Patent Class: 290.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12693784', '14819097', '12656777', '12613992', '14247608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5795736748224424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4997634841699443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5715926557571925
- Mean Citation Score: 253.591808
- Max Citation Score: 262.2866
- Similarity Product: 214.468477239132

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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