PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179757
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "342000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device has a head that includes a metal face configured for striking a ball, a rearwardly extending metal band, a top piece, and a bottom piece. The metal band has a first end extending from one side of the face, a second end extending from the opposite side of the face, and a rear portion extending between the first and second ends and defining at least a portion of the rear periphery of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are non-metallic or substantially non-metallic. The top piece is connected to the top side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a top side of the head, and the bottom piece is connected to the bottom side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a bottom side of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are separated by the metal band.

Claim (Index 1):
A golf club head comprising:\n a face member having a ball striking face configured for striking a ball; a continuous metal band having a first end extending from a first side of the face member, a second end extending from a second, opposite side of the face member, and a rear portion extending between the first and second ends, wherein the golf club head further comprises a metal arm extending across a middle of the bottom side of the golf club head from the ball striking face to a rear, central location of the metal band, wherein a first bottom opening is at least partially defined by the metal band and the metal arm, wherein a second bottom opening is at least partially defined by the metal band and the metal arm, the metal band at least partially defining a first opening on a bottom side of the metal band, wherein the metal band includes a first ridge extending around the first bottom opening located on an interior surface of the metal band; wherein the metal band includes a second ridge extending around the second bottom opening located on an interior surface of the metal band; a first substantially non-metallic bottom piece connected to the metal band and the metal arm forming at least a portion of a bottom side of the golf club head, a second substantially non-metallic bottom piece connected to the metal band and the metal arm forming at least a portion of a bottom side of the golf club head, wherein the first substantially non-metallic bottom piece is positioned to cover the first bottom opening, wherein the second substantially non-metallic bottom piece is positioned to cover the second bottom opening, such that a portion of the first bottom piece and the second bottom piece engage the interior surface of the metal band around the first bottom opening and the second bottom opening to secure the first and second bottom pieces in place, and further engage the first and second ridges extending around the first and second bottom openings to secure the first and second bottom pieces in place, wherein the golf club head further comprises at least one hole formed in the metallic band, wherein at least one threaded screw base is fixedly attached on an interior surface of the golf club head, such that a threaded hole in the at least one threaded screw base is aligned with the at least one hole formed in the metallic band, and wherein the golf club head further comprises at least one threaded weight, wherein the at least one threaded screw base and the at least one hole formed in the metallic band are configured to receive the at least one threaded weight, wherein the at least one threaded weight is threadedly attached to the golf club head by threading the at least one threaded weight into the at least one threaded screw base through the at least one hole formed in the metallic band.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15282361', '12272442', '13867602', '13179211', '12776158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.665572417726481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5447307744263459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6534882533964675
- Mean Citation Score: 344.123242
- Max Citation Score: 384.63147
- Similarity Product: 379.05522228118286

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