PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164616
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["473", "329000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a face with a striking surface configured for striking a ball where the face has multiple thickness regions. The face has a center region, an upper region, a lower region, a toe region, and a heel region. The upper and lower regions have a ramped thickness extending from a center region to an upper and lower edge of the face. The heel and toe regions have a constant face thickness and have a thickness less than the other regions. Additionally, the club head body has a flange where the face is welded to the club head body. The flange has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the heel and toe regions of the face.

Claim (Index 1):
A golf club head comprising:\n a face having a striking surface configured for striking a ball, an upper edge, a lower edge, a heel edge, and a toe edge; a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face, the body having a crown, a sole, a heel, and a toe; a channel extending across a portion of the sole in a heel to toe direction, wherein the body and the face are integrally joined at a joint to form an interior cavity and the upper edge, the lower edge, the heel edge, and the toe edge of the face are defined by the joint; wherein the face has a first region having a first thickness, a second region having a second thickness, a third region having a third thickness, a fourth region having a fourth thickness, a fifth region having a fifth thickness; and wherein the first region is positioned in a center region of the face, wherein the center region has rectangular shape with rounded corners, wherein the center region has a width in a range of 34 mm to 42 mm and a height within a range of 15 mm to 19 mm; wherein the channel is recessed from adjacent surfaces of the sole and has a depth of recession from the adjacent surfaces of the sole, wherein the channel comprises a center portion extending across a center of the sole, a heel portion extending from a heel end of the center portion toward the heel, and a toe portion extending from a toe end of the center portion toward the toe, wherein the depth of recession of the channel at the heel and toe portions increases from the heel end of the center portion toward the heel and from the toe end of the center portion toward the toe, and further wherein an access for a hosel connecting structure is in communication with and intersects the heel portion of the channel; wherein the center portion of the channel has an asymmetric cross-sectional shape where a front wall of the center portion of the channel has a first length and a rear wall of the center portion of the channel has a second length wherein the first length is greater than the second length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14968533', '14968513', '14968494', '14593790', '15681119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.763273112307021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5940932816395106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7463551292402699
- Mean Citation Score: 462.15345
- Max Citation Score: 497.19418
- Similarity Product: 491.6850478014386

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

Dataset: test