PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031451
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["002", "413000"]

Abstract:
The invention includes a protective headpiece and components thereof and methods for their use. Preferred examples comprise a helmet component, a plurality of piers joining said helmet component to a shoulder pad component and an inner hat component permitting the wearer the ability to move the head from side to side and/or up and down within the helmet component without moving the helmet component. The helmet component may comprise a plurality of fluid-filled floating plates or floats on the inner surface thereof to cushion the head against impact during activities including, for example, football, race car driving, military activities and the like.

Claim (Index 1):
A protective headpiece, comprising:\n a) a helmet component having an interior surface comprising a padding component, and an exterior surface comprising an impact-resistant polymer, b) a shoulder pad component structured to cover the shoulder blades of a wearer and comprising a hard plastic shell with foam padding underneath, said shoulder pad component further comprising a force-diffusing element integrated around a neck opening of the shoulder pad component, said force diffusing element having one or more connector receptacles as part thereof; c) at least one force-directing member integrated as part, of at least one of the front, the back, and the top, of the shoulder pad component, said at least one force-directing member comprising a rigid but flexible material selected from the group consisting of: a natural material, an elastomeric material, a metallic material, a synthetic material, and a mixture of any of these; d) a plurality of piers affixed to said helmet component and said shoulder pad component, and extending between each said helmet component and a plurality of connector receptacles of said shoulder pad component, said plurality of piers being integrated into and structurally connected within the helmet component as part of the helmet manufacturing process, and each pier of said plurality of piers having an end comprising a connector removably affixed to at least one of said one or more connector receptacles of the force diffusing element of said shoulder pad component, respectively, to form a unitary engineered network effective to selectively transfer impact forces from the helmet component through the plurality of piers, and the shoulder pad component to a wearer's shoulders and body in preference to a wearer's head, neck and spine; wherein said helmet component has an interior surface adapted to permit a wearer to turn his or her head from side to side within the helmet component without the helmet component itself moving.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15057938', '15262946', '14194901', '15467371', '13385051']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6292712843748018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6515360951394065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6314977654512623
- Mean Citation Score: 371.481428
- Max Citation Score: 625.02795
- Similarity Product: 620.121635035041

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