PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007635
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["002", "411000"]

Abstract:
A protective sports helmet that includes an energy attenuating faceguard connection system, which includes at least one connector that secures the faceguard to the helmet shell without a connection point in the shell's brow region. The sports helmet can be configured as a football helmet to be worn by a player and where the lack of a brow region connection point results in a gap or clearance between the faceguard and the shell that has a functional interplay with the connector upon an impact to the faceguard. The football helmet has a unique collection of helmet shell features that include an arrangement of a raised central band, lateral ridges, frontal vent openings and rear vent openings.

Claim (Index 20):
A football helmet comprising:\n a one piece outer shell configured to receive a head of a wearer of the football helmet, wherein when the football helmet is worn by the wearer, the outer shell has:\n a front region, \n a rear region, \n a left side region and a right side region, wherein each side region has an ear flap with an ear opening having a forward-most point, \n a raised central band integrally formed as part of the outer shell and extending rearward from the front region of the shell, \n a first frontal vent opening and a second frontal vent opening, wherein the first and second frontal vent openings are positioned in the front region of the shell and adjacent to the raised central band, \n a first chord extending: (i) between an uppermost point of the first frontal vent opening and an uppermost point of the second frontal vent opening, and (ii) around the rear region of the outer shell, \n a second chord extending: (i) between the forward-most points of the ear openings, and (ii) around the rear region of the outer shell, \n a first recessed region formed by a first arrangement of angled walls, said first recess region is positioned in the rear region of the shell and between the first and second chords, \n a second recessed region formed by a first arrangement of angled walls, said second recess region is positioned in the rear region of the shell and between the first and second chords, \n a first rear vent opening having a non-circular configuration, said first rear vent opening is positioned within the first recess, \n a second rear vent opening having a non-circular configuration, said second rear vent opening is positioned within the second recess; and \n a faceguard secured to the shell by at least two faceguard connectors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 58.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80882
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13068104', '14605765', '14022011', '13838638', '14467618']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.638396372746998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.599543619778016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6345110974500998
- Mean Citation Score: 423.31483800000007
- Max Citation Score: 534.2622
- Similarity Product: 491.5278247297525

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