PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956953
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "345000"]

Abstract:
A golf club incorporating a stress reducing feature and a shaft connection system socket. The location and size of the stress reducing feature and the shaft connection system socket, and their relationship to one another, selectively increase deflection of the face and provide stability of the shaft connection system.

Claim (Index 1):
A golf club head comprising:\n (i) a bore having a center that defines a shaft axis which intersects with a horizontal ground plane to define an origin point, wherein the bore is located at a heel side of the golf club head, and wherein a toe side of the golf club head is located opposite of the heel side; (ii) a face positioned at a front portion of the golf club head where the golf club head impacts a golf ball, opposite a rear portion of the golf club head, wherein the face includes an engineered impact point, a blade length measured horizontally from the origin point toward the toe side of the golf club head to the most distant point on the golf club head in this direction, wherein the blade length includes a heel blade length section measured in the same direction as the blade length from the origin point to the engineered impact point, and a toe blade length section; (iii) a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head; (iv) a crown positioned at a top portion of the golf club head; (v) a center of gravity located:\n (a) vertically toward the crown of the golf club head from the origin point a distance Ycg; \n (b) horizontally from the origin point toward the toe side of the golf club head a distance Xcg that is generally parallel to the face and the ground plane; and \n (c) a distance Zcg from the origin toward the rear portion in a direction generally orthogonal to the vertical direction used to measure Ycg and generally orthogonal to the horizontal direction used to measure Xcg; \n (vi) a club moment arm from the CG to the engineered impact point; (vii) a shaft connection system socket extending from the bottom portion of the golf club head into the interior of the outer shell toward the top portion of the club head and having a socket depth; and (viii) a stress reducing feature extending across a portion of the golf club head and having a length between a toe-most point and a heel-most point, and the length is at least as great as the Zcg distance, a leading edge having a leading edge offset, a trailing edge, a stress reducing feature width between the leading edge and the trailing edge, and a stress reducing feature depth, wherein the socket depth of at least a portion of the shaft connection system socket is larger than a greatest stress reducing feature width.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70968
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15499146', '14658267', '13752692', '14449252', '13542356']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8171647526072144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6393768721055024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7993859645570432
- Mean Citation Score: 727.45795
- Max Citation Score: 738.0143
- Similarity Product: 558.3782926794172

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