PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["124", "027000"]

Abstract:
A ball-launching device includes a housing, ball holder, elastomeric member, cocking member, latch, and trigger assembly. The housing has an opening at a first end defining an elongated cavity. The ball holder is disposed in the housing cavity and slidable in an axial direction from a first position proximate to the opening at the housing first end, to a second position. The elastomeric member is selectively arranged within the housing to bias the ball holder toward the first position. The cocking member includes a first portion disposed outside of the housing, being usable to move the ball holder into a cocked position, where the latch may oppose the bias of the elastomeric member and releasably secure the cocking member and the ball holder thereat. Actuating the trigger assembly releases the latch, permitting the elastomeric member to accelerate the ball holder towards the housing first end to launch the ball therefrom.

Claim (Index 5):
The ball-launching device according to  claim 4 ,\n wherein said trigger assembly comprises:\n an elongated arm comprising:\n a plurality of teeth being successively positioned along a length of said elongated arm; and \n a pair of shaped openings; and \n \n a trigger configured to engage said elongated arm, and configured to move with respect to a portion of said housing from a first trigger position to a second trigger position; \n wherein said cocking member comprises:\n a hook configured to pivot; \n a spring configured to bias said hook; \n wherein said hook is biased by said spring to automatically engage a lip of said ball holder, when said cocking member is moved into proximity with said ball holder at said first ball holder position, to be releasably coupled thereto; \n wherein said housing comprises:\n a pair of pins protruding into said housing cavity; and \n wherein said pair of shaped openings on said elongated arm are respectively mounted to said pair of pins and configured to respectively track thereon when said trigger is moved from said first trigger position to said second trigger position, to cause one of said plurality of teeth of said elongated arm to releasably engage said hook, and to subsequently move to cause said hook to disengage from said lip of said ball holder, for said cocking member to disengage from said ball holder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15444750', '14562671', '14847212', '13558728', '12853463']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7053573252335391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5667188827787244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6914934809880576
- Mean Citation Score: 305.76215
- Max Citation Score: 542.08685
- Similarity Product: 385.8272948066294

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

Dataset: test