PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179757
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "342000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device has a head that includes a metal face configured for striking a ball, a rearwardly extending metal band, a top piece, and a bottom piece. The metal band has a first end extending from one side of the face, a second end extending from the opposite side of the face, and a rear portion extending between the first and second ends and defining at least a portion of the rear periphery of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are non-metallic or substantially non-metallic. The top piece is connected to the top side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a top side of the head, and the bottom piece is connected to the bottom side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a bottom side of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are separated by the metal band.

Claim (Index 18):
A golf club head comprising:\n a ball striking face configured for striking a ball, wherein the ball striking face is formed by a cup face member that includes a ball striking face and a return portion extending rearward from a periphery of the ball striking face; a continuous metal band having a first end extending from a first side of the return portion, a second end extending from a second, opposite side of the return portion, and a rear portion extending between the first and second ends, wherein the metal band forms an outer periphery of the golf club head forming a heel, a toe and a rear of the golf club head; a substantially non-metallic top piece connected to an interior surface of the metal band and an interior surface of the return portion, wherein the top piece forms a portion of a top side of the golf club head; wherein the portion of the top piece forming the top side of the golf club head extends from the return portion to the outer periphery of the golf club head around the heel, the toe, and the rear of the of the golf club head; and wherein the substantially non-metallic top piece does not extend below a bottom edge of the metal band wherein the metal band defines first and second openings on a bottom side of the golf club head, wherein the metal band includes a first and second ridge extending around the first and second openings located on an interior surface of the metal band, and wherein the golf club head further comprises: substantially non-metallic first and second bottom pieces connected to the metal band and forming at least a portion of a bottom side of the golf club head, wherein the first and second bottom pieces covers the opening, such that a portion of the first and second bottom pieces engage the interior surface of the metal band around the first and second bottom openings to secure the first and second bottom pieces in place, and further engage the first and second ridges extending around the first and second bottom openings to secure the first and second bottom pieces in place, wherein the golf club head further comprises at least one hole formed in the metallic band, wherein at least one threaded screw base is fixedly attached on an interior surface of the golf club head, such that a threaded hole in the at least one threaded screw base is aligned with the at least one hole formed in the metallic band, and wherein the golf club head further comprises at least one threaded weight, wherein the at least one threaded screw base and the at least one hole formed in the metallic band are configured to receive the at least one threaded weight, wherein the at least one threaded weight is threadedly attached to the golf club head by threading the at least one threaded weight into the at least one threaded screw base through the at least one hole formed in the metallic band.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15282361', '12272442', '13867602', '13179211', '12776158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6659169719753123
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5444396424162434
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6537692390194054
- Mean Citation Score: 344.123242
- Max Citation Score: 384.63147
- Similarity Product: 367.6337610982168

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