DEVELOPMENT TRENDS FOR JUNCTION SUPPORTS WITH APPLICATION OF PATENT LANDSCAPE APPROACHES

Abstract

In the light of the current trend towards the mining depth increase, leading to an aggravation of geotechnological factors that determine the direction of development of mining engineering, the design of junction supports, which are integral components of mining complexes, directly depends on the factors of the underground environment. The article presents the results of patent analytics of interface supports, based on which the main trends in their development were identified, including: analysis of the dynamics of inventive and patent activity, analysis of the legal statuses of patent families, analysis of countries developing technologies and ensuring their legal protection, and also, it briefly presents the analysis results of full texts of patent documents. In conclusion, based on the conducted patent analytics, we made a brief forecast about the prospects for the development of interface supports.