PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16202122
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["084", "422400"]

Abstract:
A drum beater shaft with a flexible coupling means disposed between the base portion of the shaft and the head portion of the shaft is disclosed. The base portion of the shaft is fixed in the user's hand. The head portion of the shaft contains a striking device used to contact the drum. In one preferred group of embodiments, the flexible coupling means disposed between the base portion and head portion of the drum beater shaft takes the form of a spring surrounded by an elastic sheath, a universal joint surrounded by an elastic sheath and a ball and socket joint surrounded by and elastic sheath. In yet another preferred group of embodiments, the flexible coupling means disposed between the base portion and head portion of the drum beater shaft takes the form of an elastomeric flexible coupling, a thermoplastic polyurethane element, a thermoplastic elastomer element, a thermoplastic urethane element, a thermoset elastomer element and a thermoset urethane element.

Claim (Index 13):
The dynamic drum beater of  claim 1 , wherein the flexible joint is a thermoplastic elastomer element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91525
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15256777', '15635539', '11399347', '11850112', '15379614']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6108172812674849
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098270629896324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6007182594396997
- Mean Citation Score: 219.16117000000003
- Max Citation Score: 310.04047
- Similarity Product: 223.7732680349827

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

Dataset: test