PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923707
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["060", "597000"]

Abstract:
A lubrication system and method for an engine arc provided. In some embodiments, the lubrication method comprises driving a lube pump with a gearbox in a power drive housing, the gearbox including an expander shaft of an expander of a waste heat recovery system; suctioning lubrication fluid, with the lube pump, from a lube sump in the power drive housing; lubricating, with the lubrication fluid, an expander shall bearing supporting the expander; and after lubricating the expander shall bearing, transferring the lubrication fluid to the lube sump waste heat recovery power drive and lubrication system therefor.

Claim (Index 36):
A combustion engine comprising:\n a crankshaft; a waste heat recovery system including an expander having an expander shaft; a lube pump; an output shaft coupled to the lube pump; a first gear train operable to transfer power from the expander shaft to the output shaft to drive the lube pump; and a second gear train operable to transfer power from the output shaft to the crankshaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29787
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15546082', '16063974', '13143558', '15611469', '10374581']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7435573493767513
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6010535954606906
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7293069739851453
- Mean Citation Score: 352.61677000000014
- Max Citation Score: 631.50946
- Similarity Product: 476.77819645602943

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