PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["124", "025600"]

Abstract:
A crossbow including a frame with a riser and a center trail. First and second flexible limbs are attached to the riser. A draw string is received in string guide journals in first and second cams rotatably attached to the frame. The draw string unwinds from the string guide journals as it translates between a released configuration and a drawn configuration. The first and second cams include at least first and second power cable take-up journals, respectively. At least first and second power cables are attached to the first and second limbs and received in the first and second power cable take-up journals, respectively. As the crossbow is drawn from the released configuration to the drawn configuration the first and second power cables wrap onto the respective first and second power cable take-up journals.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of operating a crossbow comprising the steps of:\n locating a draw string in first and second draw string journals on first and second cam assemblies, the first and second cam assemblies having first and second planes of rotation that are perpendicular to first and second axes of rotation located a fixed distance from the frame, respectively, and first and second helical power cable take-up journal comprising paths that are not co-planar with the first and second planes of rotation; translating the draw string from a released configuration to a drawn configuration so the draw string unwinds from the draw string journals as the first and second cam assemblies rotate around the first and second axes, wherein a separation between the first axis and the second axis is about 3 inches to about 8 inches and the draw string in the drawn configuration comprises an included angle of less than about 15 degrees; wrapping the first and second power cables more than 270 degrees onto the first and second helical power cable take-up journals as the draw string translates from the released configuration to the drawn configuration, the first and second power cables having first ends operatively coupled to the first and second cam assemblies and second ends operatively coupled to the first and second flexible limbs, respectively; displacing the first and second power cables along the first and second axes relative the first and second planes of rotation of the first and second draw string journals as the bow string is translated from the released configuration to the drawn configuration; and unwrapping the first and second power cables more than 270 degrees from first and second helical power cable take-up journals as the draw string translates from the drawn configuration to the released configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69811
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15782259', '15395835', '15098537', '15433769', '15909872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7970361701005254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6524110037231152
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7825736534627844
- Mean Citation Score: 625.788748
- Max Citation Score: 666.2781
- Similarity Product: 633.5167972020507

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