PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173733
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "376000"]

Abstract:
In a golf ball having a two-layer core consisting of an inner core layer and an outer core layer, one or more intermediate layer, and a cover serving as an outermost layer, the inner core layer and outer core layer are each formed primarily of a base rubber, the inner core layer has a diameter of at least 21 mm, the intermediate layer and the cover are each formed primarily of a resin material, and the overall core has a specific hardness profile. The golf ball has a high initial velocity while holding down the spin rate on full shots with a driver or long iron, thus enabling a good distance to be achieved. The ball also has a high controllability in the short game.

Claim (Index 9):
The golf ball of  claim 1 , wherein the outermost layer (cover) has numerous dimples formed on a surface thereof, the ball has arranged thereon at least one dimple with a cross-sectional shape that is described by a curved line or by a combination of a straight line and a curved line and is specified by steps (i) to (iv) below, and the total number of dimples is from 250 to 380:\n (i) letting the foot of a perpendicular drawn from a deepest point of the dimple to an imaginary plane defined by a peripheral edge of the dimple be the dimple center and a straight line that passes through the dimple center and any one point on the edge of the dimple be the reference line; (ii) dividing a segment of the reference line from the dimple edge to the dimple center into at least 100 points and computing the distance ratio for each point when the distance from the dimple edge to the dimple center is set to 100%; (iii) computing the dimple depth ratio at every 20% from 0 to 100% of the distance from the dimple edge to the dimple center; and (iv) at the depth ratios in dimple regions 20 to 100% of the distance from the dimple edge to the dimple center, determining the change in depth \u0394H every 20% of said distance and designing a dimple cross-sectional shape such that the change \u0394H is at least 6% and not more than 24% in all regions corresponding to from 20 to 100% of said distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90141
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15460732', '15948267', '14859802', '15287050', '15934172']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7225774281994116
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5317697683336492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7034966622128354
- Mean Citation Score: 373.272912
- Max Citation Score: 375.5063
- Similarity Product: 311.5786582998872

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

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