PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["446", "490000"]

Abstract:
A toy having three bobs on a string where the middle bob slides. A low moment of inertia of the middle bob is desirable because it minimizes tangling of the string about the middle bob and produces smooth, tactile-appealing orbits. Each bob has a pair of mated throughbore pieces sandwiching a central metal weight and an equatorial bag stuffed with low-density pellets. Concave sections (in profile on a plane along the polar axis) of the throughbore occupy a substantial portion of the length of the throughbore to take best advantage of the torques produced by the string by focusing the tension of the string at the mouths of the throughbore. The concave sections also reduce the volume occupied by the bag, thereby reducing moment of inertia. Additionally, hollows in the concave regions of the throughbore pieces further reduce the moment of inertia.

Claim (Index 8):
An orbiting bob toy comprising:\n a flexible, elongated tethering means; a first end bob; and a sliding bob having a throughbore component providing a throughbore along a polar axis normal to an equator in an equatorial plane, said throughbore component having a first mouth at a first end thereof and a second mouth at a second end thereof, said tethering means passing through said throughbore of said throughbore component so that said sliding bob is slidable along said tethering means, said first end bob being constrained on said tethering means between said sliding bob and a first end of said tethering means, said sliding bob having a weight encircling a central portion of said throughbore component, an intermediate portion of said throughbore component to each side of said equatorial plane, in cross-section on a plane along said polar axis, having a concave contour.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15063473', '10922022', '13714419', '10850661', '13065967']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6625860639685662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.54130612704663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6504580702763726
- Mean Citation Score: 278.546752
- Max Citation Score: 387.28937
- Similarity Product: 366.78792854820136

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

Dataset: test