PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["384", "107000"]

Abstract:
A bearing device includes a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing has a bearing surface in a half-split ring shape, and a plurality of oil grooves formed to cross the bearing surface from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side. Further, the thrust bearing includes a first thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing a side of a transmission, and a second thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing an opposite side to the transmission. In the first thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by including a taper surface formed so that a wall thickness becomes thicker toward a rotation direction of the crankshaft. Further, in the second thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by a plane in which a wall thickness is constant.

Claim (Index 3):
The bearing device for a crankshaft according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the bearing support portion includes a saddle portion provided in an engine block of the internal combustion engine, and a cap portion that is fixed to the saddle portion, and rotatably supports the crankshaft disposed in the saddle portion, and the thrust bearing is provided at either one or both of the saddle portion and the cap portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68966
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15246672', '15246714', '14967800', '14964912', '15377282']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7709228288755997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879569448527214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7426262404733118
- Mean Citation Score: 205.768224
- Max Citation Score: 212.42902
- Similarity Product: 163.6247362532044

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