PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["473", "458000"]

Abstract:
A baseball and softball training aid is worn to prevent a batter's lead arm from extending too far backward in rotation during swing windup, thus collapsing the “box” or “barrel” referred to in batting training that exists between the batter's lead arm and chest during at least an initial portion of a swing of a bat. The training aid has a vertical stop providing a surface that is aligned vertically along a chest of the batter so that the lead arm of the batter is prevented from traveling past the vertical stop by contacting the vertical stop when the batter winds up to strike a ball and a pair of braces rigidly coupled to the vertical stop and extending across the chest of the batter to transfer energy from the vertical stop to the chest of the batter when the lead arm of the batter contacts the vertical stop.

Claim (Index 11):
A baseball batting training device, comprising:\n a formed unit having a vertical stop located at a side thereof, the vertical stop providing a surface that is alignable along a chest of a batter so that a lead arm of the batter is prevented from traveling past the vertical stop by contacting the vertical stop when the batter winds up to strike a ball; and a pair of braces rigidly coupled to the vertical stop and extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the vertical stop so that the pair of braces cross the chest of the batter and the torso of the batter, respectively, for transferring energy from the vertical stop to the chest and torso of the batter when the lead arm of the batter contacts the vertical stop, wherein the pair of braces are curved to better conform to the chest and torso of the batter, wherein the vertical stop is adjustable with respect to the pair of braces so that the vertical stop is extendable away from the pair of braces and away from the chest and torso of the batter and dimensioned to contact an upper portion of the lead arm of the batter near a midpoint of the upper portion of the lead arm of the batter, wherein the formed unit has a front face disposed at an acute angle with respect to surfaces of the pair of braces that contact the chest and torso of the batter and extending from a direction away from a trailing arm of the batter so that a first depth of the front face away from the chest of the batter is less near the lead arm than a second depth of the front face at the vertical stop, wherein the pair of braces each have a curved contact portion for contacting the chest and torso, respectively, of the batter along a length of the curved contact portion and a horizontal wall extending from the pair of braces in a direction perpendicular to the curved contact portion that couples the vertical stop to the pair of braces, and wherein the formed unit further includes a top face and a bottom face extending from the front face and aligned substantially parallel to a corresponding one of vertical walls, wherein the vertical walls are coupled to a corresponding one of the top face and the bottom face with a fastening mechanism, wherein at least one of the horizontal walls of the pair of braces or the top face and the bottom face of the formed unit include holes or indentations to receive a corresponding fastener or protrusion to provide an adjustable stop for setting the acute angle between the front face of the formed unit and the surfaces of the pair of braces that contact the chest and torso of the batter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07895
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12050403', '13834872', '13174660', '15727827', '14121716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5932962964882614
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4980275588248639
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5837694227219217
- Mean Citation Score: 228.76145
- Max Citation Score: 239.74512
- Similarity Product: 176.1140375830078

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

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