PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167827
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["384", "312000"]

Abstract:
A journal bearing including a plurality of bearing pads having pad surfaces which configured to slidably come into contact with an outer circumferential surface of a rotating shaft and disposed at intervals, a key member provided a part of a pad rear surface which faces radially outward in the bearing pad, having a curved surface which is curved around an axis parallel to the central axis, configured to extend to have the same cross-sectional shape, and formed of a material having a hardness higher than that of a material forming the pad rear surface of the bearing pad, and a housing having a support surface in contact with a part of the curved surface of the key member in the circumferential direction and configured to support the key member and the bearing pad to be swingable from an outer side in a radial direction.

Claim (Index 3):
The journal bearing according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein only the curved surface configures to be in contact with the support surface of the housing when the key member and the bearing pad swing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23881
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14879338', '15418127', '12617180', '12865487', '16086704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8054405703505639
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926030693934802
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7741568202548555
- Mean Citation Score: 219.536098
- Max Citation Score: 226.67142
- Similarity Product: 159.93033409935953

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

Dataset: test