PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["384", "475000"]

Abstract:
A bearing structure includes: a housing; a bearing hole formed in the housing and provided with a bearing for pivotally supporting a shaft; a clearance groove provided in the bearing hole, having an opposing wall portion radially opposed to the shaft, and communicating with an oil drainage passage provided below a shaft center of the shaft; and at least one of a narrow portion or a wide portion in the opposing wall portion of the clearance groove with a boundary right above the shaft center of the shaft, the narrow portion provided in a rear side in a rotation direction of the shaft, the narrow portion having a narrower gap from the shaft than that in a front side in the rotation direction of the shaft, the wide portion provided in the front side in the rotation direction of the shaft, the wide portion having a wider gap from the shaft than that in the rear side in the rotation direction of the shaft.

Claim (Index 1):
A bearing structure, comprising:\n a housing; a bearing hole formed in the housing and provided with a bearing for pivotally supporting a shaft; a clearance groove formed on an inner circumferential surface of the bearing hole, having an opposing wall portion radially opposed to the shaft, and communicating with an oil drainage passage provided below a shaft center of the shaft; and at least one of a narrow portion or a wide portion in the opposing wall portion of the clearance groove with a boundary right above the shaft center of the shaft, the narrow portion provided in a rear side in a rotation direction of the shaft, the narrow portion having a narrower gap from the shaft than that in a front side in the rotation direction of the shaft, the wide portion provided in the front side in the rotation direction of the shaft, the wide portion having a wider gap from the shaft than that in the rear side in the rotation direction of the shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01724
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15886302', '15886361', '15862094', '15860100', '15862032']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8081695891470615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5036077384801916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777134040803746
- Mean Citation Score: 266.535352
- Max Citation Score: 304.83447
- Similarity Product: 258.4573651335186

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

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