PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043490
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["446", "473000"]

Abstract:
A special effects device for providing an energy sword effect. The device includes two long plastic semi-cylinders, and these two blade body members are rolled perpendicular to their length, which creates compact cylinders of material of small volume that can be provided on a pair of spools in a hilt. To extend the blade, a motor provided in the hilt unrolls the blade body members from the spools. Each blade body member passes through a blade forming guideway that nests the semi-cylindrical blade body members together as they leave the hilt. To retract the blade, the process is reversed. The lighting of the blade is achieved with a flexible strip of light sources. The light source strip is attached to a blade end cap and positioned in the center of the two blade body members such that it is pulled up along with the blade body members during their extension.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for producing an energy sword special effect, comprising:\n a hilt body; a drive assembly mounted to the hilt body; a blade member storage within the hilt body; and a blade including a flexible strip with a plurality of light sources, wherein the drive assembly operates in a first operating state to mechanically extend the blade outward from the blade member storage via an opening in the hilt body and in a second operating state to mechanically retract the blade into the blade member storage in the hilt body through the opening in the hilt body, and wherein the plurality of light sources is powered on during the first operating state to output light from the blade.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80899
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15460467', '14055735', '11685813', '12701988', '11383531']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5720659453508339
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6178969946250442
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.576649050278255
- Mean Citation Score: 242.552652
- Max Citation Score: 548.726
- Similarity Product: 502.4907469201088

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