PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "532000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a racquet design with an inner and outer frame connected by an isolation system. Uniquely adapted to tennis racquets, the natural motion of the inner frame relative to the outer frame upon impact of the tennis ball on the inner frame will generate spin when the ball contacts the inner frame. The relationship between the inner frame, outer frame and isolation system can control the spin imparted to the ball for a given tennis swing. The tuning of the isolators relative to conventional racquet characteristics will increase the amount of ball spin caused by conventional racquets. The invention also increases the accuracy of the tennis ball's trajectory.

Claim (Index 1):
A racquet comprising: an outer frame defined by a generally hoop shaped portion with a handle extending therefrom; an inner frame positionable within said outer frame having a string bed formed from a plurality of cross string elements and a plurality of main string elements; and a means for isolating and securing said inner frame to said outer frame constructed and arranged to allow for sway space deflection and to control overall in-plane stiffness between 30 lbs/in and 800 lbs/in and overall out-of-plane stiffness between 70 lbs/in and 600 lbs/in, said means for isolating and securing said inner frame to said outer frame is adjustable and combines out-of-plane stiffness, string bed stiffness, and in-plane stiffness to provide increased spin to a ball impacting said string bed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05085
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14210614', '14747173', '13894611', '13894588', '10547067']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6316170132575438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7068440858682343
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6391397205186129
- Mean Citation Score: 369.051322
- Max Citation Score: 742.7497
- Similarity Product: 732.7782465312301

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

Dataset: test