PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["473", "324000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed golf club heads include a body defining an interior cavity, a face, a sole, a crown, and a hosel. Certain embodiments include a weight channel positioned in the sole and defining a path along the sole. Some embodiments include a weight member positioned in the weight channel that is configured to be adjusted to any of a range of selectable positions to adjust mass properties of the golf club head. A fastener may be configured to secure the weight member in any of the selectable positions, while the fastener itself, regardless of where the weight member is positioned along the path, may be secured to the body at a fixed location that is independent of the position of the weight member along the path. Additional discretionary mass elements may be added to the weight member, such as at its ends, to further adjust mass properties of the golf club head.

Claim (Index 83):
A golf club head, comprising:\n a body defining an interior cavity, a sole defining a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown defining a top portion of the golf club head, a face defining a forward portion of the golf club head, a rearward portion of the golf club head opposite the face, and a hosel; a weight channel formed in the sole and defining a path along the sole, wherein the path comprises a curved path; a weight member positioned in the weight channel, the weight member configured to be adjusted along the path to any of a range of selectable positions in the weight channel to adjust mass properties of the golf club head; and a fastener configured to secure the weight member to the body in any of the selectable positions along the path; wherein the fastener is secured to the body at a fixed location that is independent of the position of the weight member; wherein the fastener comprises a fastener head and a threaded fastener shaft that extends from the fastener head and is secured to the body at a fastener port in the body wherein the weight member comprising a weight slot with a recessed portion such that the threaded fastener shaft extends through the weight slot and at least a portion of the fastener head sits within the recessed portion of the weight slot when the fastener is tightened; wherein the weight member is configured to move around a center axis of curvature that is not collocated with a position of the fastener; wherein the weight member is configured to move around the center axis of curvature in an arc of less than 90 degrees and a depth of the weight channel is greater proximate the face than distal the face; wherein the weight member comprises at least 25 percent of a total mass of the golf club head, and moving the weight member from a first position adjacent a first end of the weight channel to a second position adjacent a second end of the weight channel provides a golf club head center of gravity movement along an x-axis (CGx) of at least 3 mm; wherein at least a portion of the body is formed of a titanium alloy, the weight member is formed from a material having a density no less than 7.8 g/cc, and at least a portion of the crown is formed of a material having a density of no more than 2 g/cc.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46269
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14789838', '15859071', '15950073', '14875554', '15377915']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7384784563360387
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5277389448717397
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7174045051896089
- Mean Citation Score: 372.515364
- Max Citation Score: 377.9539
- Similarity Product: 299.30362290773985

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