PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16258982
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["124", "025600"]

Abstract:
A crossbow including first and second flexible limbs attached to a center rail. A first cam is mounted to the first bow limb and rotatable around a first axis. A draw string is received in string guide journals and is secured to first and second cams. The draw string unwinds from the string guide journals as it translates from a released configuration to a drawn configuration. Power cables are received in first and second power cable take-up journals on each of the first and second cams. As the crossbow is drawn from the released configuration to the drawn configuration the first and second power cables wrap onto the respective first and second power cable take-up journals and are displaced along the first and second axes away from the first and second planes of rotation of the first and second draw string journals.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of operating a crossbow comprising the steps of:\n locating a draw string in first and second draw string journals on first and second cams mounted to first and second flexible limbs by first and second axle mounts, the first and second flexible limbs are attached to a center rail, the first and second draw string journals having first and second planes of rotation that are perpendicular to first and second axes of rotation located fixed distances from the first and second flexible limbs by the first and second axle mounts, respectively, and first and second upper and lower helical power cable take-up journal on opposite sides of the first and second draw string journals comprising paths that are not co-planar with the first and second planes of rotation; translating the draw string from the released configuration to a drawn configuration so the draw string unwinds from the draw string journals as the first and second cams rotate around the first and second axes; wrapping first and second pairs of power cables onto the first and second upper and lower helical power cable take-up journals and moving the first and second axes continuously toward the center rail as the draw string translates from the released configuration to the drawn configuration, the first and second pairs of power cables having first ends attached to the first and second cams and second ends attached to static attachment points on the crossbow; displacing the first and second pairs of power cables along the first and second axes relative the first and second planes of rotation as the bow string is translated from the released configuration to the drawn configuration; and unwrapping the first and second pairs of power cables from first and second upper and lower helical power cable take-up journals as the draw string translates from the drawn configuration to the released configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50847
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395835', '15782259', '15433769', '15909872', '15098537']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8264908722398653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6434403095006849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8081858159659472
- Mean Citation Score: 627.38905
- Max Citation Score: 666.7164
- Similarity Product: 625.2812861226797

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