PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129482
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["002", "421000"]

Abstract:
The invention is intended to protect football players, race car drivers and others. An apparatus that dampens impacts and prevents rapid movement of user's head protected by helmets. Two embodiments are disclosed using piston configuration. In one embodiment, the piston is moving inside a housing filled with a viscoelastic fluid and the other is a locking piston dampener mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for dampening rapid movement of the human head relative to the body, said mechanical structure that restrains rapid movement, comprising:\n a base structure, a top structure and a plurality of connecting elements, wherein the connecting elements conditionally restrict the relative motion of the top structure with respect to the base structure; the connecting elements are independent and self-contained and consist of a piston, a shaft, a housing, a fluid and a mechanism for preventing the free flow of fluid inside the housing thus locking the motion of the piston inside the housing; wherein the base structure is configured to be connected to the upper human body and the top structure is configured to be connected to a structure such as a helmet that covers the human head; where the connecting elements are configured to lock all 6 degrees of freedom of the top structure with respect to the base structure when all connecting elements pistons get locked.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.24528
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13787316', '13123575', '10775217', '14286993', '14701108']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.625673724307269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4700844418087759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6101147960574197
- Mean Citation Score: 148.904414
- Max Citation Score: 157.47852
- Similarity Product: 107.67235768203736

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

Dataset: test