PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16132199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["473", "564000"]

Abstract:
A ball bat includes a barrel wall with a composite laminate structure that includes an outwardly facing skin, an inwardly facing skin, a stack of composite laminate plies positioned between the outwardly facing skin and the inwardly facing skin, and a discontinuity in the stack forming a gap along a longitudinal axis of the bat. A rigid or semi-rigid appliance may be positioned in the gap. The appliance may be a ring element, which may have a cross-section that traverses the composite laminate plies in the stack in a direction that is perpendicular or oblique to the longitudinal axis of the bat. The cross-section of the ring element may be triangular. A second ring element may be positioned in the barrel wall. The second ring element may be connected to the other ring element with an adhesive bond or a connecting element.

Claim (Index 11):
The ball bat of  claim 9  wherein the second ring element is attached to the first ring element with a first bond that is configured to fail under a first stress, and wherein a second bond between composite laminate plies in the stacks is configured to fail under a second stress, wherein the first stress is less than the second stress.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62069
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13535421', '13938830', '13938785', '14244566', '13337630']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6658809130016957
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5702186520526824
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6563146869067944
- Mean Citation Score: 249.613792
- Max Citation Score: 252.13452
- Similarity Product: 167.65844540144917

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

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