PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105523
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["446", "430000"]

Abstract:
Four embodiments or variations of launcher apparatus storing either one toy car, two toy cars, eight toy cars or ten toy cars are disclosed. As a safety feature a flex member is used to block toys or other objects that are not properly configured to deflect the flex member. If the flex member is not deflected and the object inserted will not push an ejector rearward from a relaxed position to a cocked position. When a proper toy is inserted, the ejector moves rearward and stretches a spring that supplies launch energy to the ejector and the toy. The flex member is also designed to allow the ejector to deflect the flex member when the ejector is snapped back from the cocked position to the relaxed position. A safety lock is mounted to the housing for preventing operation of the trigger mechanism when the launcher apparatus is not disposed on a surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A toy launcher apparatus comprising:\n a housing for storing a toy to be launched; an ejector mounted to the housing, the ejector being movable from a relaxed position to a cocked position by insertion of the toy to be launched into the housing, and the ejector being movable from the cocked position to the relaxed position in response to launch of the inserted toy; an extendible element mounted to the housing and to the ejector for providing energy to the ejector to launch the toy; a flex member mounted to the housing, the flex member enabled to move from a first position where the flex member prevents movement of the ejector from the relaxed position to the cocked position, to a second position where the flex member is deflected by the inserted toy to enable the ejector to move to the cocked position, and the flex member being able to deflect in response to the ejector moving from the cocked position to the relaxed position; and a trigger mechanism mounted to the housing to enable the resilient element to transfer the launch energy to the ejector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0125
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13886463', '12890689', '12853463', '14791294', '14250890']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6994845770921159
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5298991068380786
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6825260300667122
- Mean Citation Score: 330.4464700000001
- Max Citation Score: 362.9262
- Similarity Product: 286.6505086127758

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

Dataset: test