PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["473", "458000"]

Abstract:
A baseball and softball training aid is worn to prevent a batter's lead arm from extending too far backward in rotation during swing windup, thus collapsing the “box” or “barrel” referred to in batting training that exists between the batter's lead arm and chest during at least an initial portion of a swing of a bat. The training aid has a vertical stop providing a surface that is aligned vertically along a chest of the batter so that the lead arm of the batter is prevented from traveling past the vertical stop by contacting the vertical stop when the batter winds up to strike a ball and a pair of braces rigidly coupled to the vertical stop and extending across the chest of the batter to transfer energy from the vertical stop to the chest of the batter when the lead arm of the batter contacts the vertical stop.

Claim (Index 21):
A baseball batting training device, comprising:\n a first brace comprising a first curved contact portion for extending across a chest of a batter at an upper position, so that a first rear surface of the first curved contact portion is in contact with the chest of the batter across a length of the first curved contact portion when the baseball batting training device is worn by the batter, and a first wall portion having a first end attached to a first front surface of the first curved contact portion and extending forward from the first front surface of the first curved contact portion; a second brace comprising a second curved contact portion for extending across a torso of the batter at a lower position lower than the upper position, so that a second rear surface of the second curved contact portion is in contact with the torso of the batter across a length of the second curved contact portion when the baseball batting training device is worn by the batter, and a second wall portion having a first end attached to a second front surface of the second curved contact portion and extending forward from the second front surface of the second curved contact portion; a plurality of straps attached to at least one of the first brace and the second brace for securing the baseball batting training device across the chest and torso of the batter; and a formed unit having an upper edge mechanically coupled to the first wall portion of the first brace at a second end of the first wall portion of the first brace and a lower edge mechanically coupled to the second wall portion of the second brace at a second end of the second wall portion of the second brace, wherein the formed unit is supported in front of the chest of the batter by the first brace and the second brace when the baseball batting training device is worn by the batter, wherein the formed unit includes a vertical stop extending at least between the upper edge and the lower edge of the formed unit at a first side of the formed unit, wherein placement of the first brace and the second brace along the chest of the batter aligns the vertical stop vertically along the chest of the batter and the formed unit is dimensioned to locate the vertical stop at a position extended in front of the chest of the batter so that a lead arm of the batter is prevented from traveling past the vertical stop by contacting the vertical stop with an upper portion of a lead arm of the batter near a midpoint of the upper portion of the lead arm when the batter winds up to strike a ball, and wherein the formed unit transfers force from the lead arm through the first brace and the second brace to the chest and torso of the batter when the lead arm of the batter contacts the vertical stop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07895
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12050403', '13834872', '13174660', '15727827', '14121716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5944918566913904
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926131991913159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.584303990941383
- Mean Citation Score: 228.76145
- Max Citation Score: 239.74512
- Similarity Product: 188.7570324145031

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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