PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["384", "103000"]

Abstract:
A foil bearing ( 40 ) includes foils ( 42 ) at a plurality of portions in a rotation direction of a shaft member ( 11 ). A top foil portion (Tf) including a bearing surface (S 2 ) is formed in a region including a front end ( 421 ) of each of the foils ( 42 ), and a back foil portion (Bf) is formed in a region including a rear end ( 422 ) of each of the foils ( 42 ). A gap (C 1 ) is secured between, of two of the foils adjacent to the foil ( 42 ) in a rotation direction (R) and a direction opposite to the rotation direction, the rear end ( 422 ) of the foil on the rotation direction side and the front end ( 421 ) of the foil on the side opposite to the rotation direction side. A width of the gap (C 1 ) is set to be non-uniform in a direction (N) orthogonal to the rotation direction.

Claim (Index 3):
The foil bearing according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein, of the two of the foils, the rear end of the foil on the rotation direction side is formed into a recessed shape, and the front end of the foil on the side opposite to the rotation direction side is formed into a protruding shape, and wherein a width of the gap formed by a top portion of the front end of the foil and a top portion of the rear end of the foil is set to be larger than a width of another region of the gap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18333
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15103002', '15767671', '15102038', '14235580', '15780016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7949062155602027
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245890985644883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7678745038606313
- Mean Citation Score: 290.580726
- Max Citation Score: 333.7315700000001
- Similarity Product: 275.6868947811282

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