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 16):
The combustion engine of  claim 13 , further comprising an expander bearing supporting the expander shaft, a lube sump in a power drive housing, and a lube discharge rifle in the power drive housing, wherein the lube pump is configured to suction lubrication fluid from the lube sump and discharge the lubrication fluid through the lube discharge rifle to lubricate the expander bearing and return the lubrication fluid to the lube sump.

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): 0.7314975924535271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6403258435255805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7223804175607325
- Mean Citation Score: 352.61677000000014
- Max Citation Score: 631.50946
- Similarity Product: 607.4454463206565

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