PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953785
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "383000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to golf balls having improved packing efficiency and aerodynamic characteristics and a high degree of dimple interdigitation. In particular, the present invention relates to a golf ball including at least a portion of dimples having a plan shape defined by low frequency periodic functions having high amplitudes. The present invention is also directed to methods of developing the dimple plan shape geometries, as well as methods of making the finished golf balls with the inventive dimple patterns applied thereto.

Claim (Index 15):
A golf ball having a generally spherical surface and comprising a plurality of dimples on the spherical surface, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of dimples have a non-circular plan shape defined by a low frequency periodic function mapped along a simple closed path according to the following function:\n Q(x)=F path (l, scl, x)*F periodic (s, a, p, x) where F path  is a circle, ellipse, or square of length l, with scale factor scl, defined along the vertices x, and F periodic  is a low frequency periodic function with sharpness factor s, amplitude a, and period p defined at the vertices x, and period p is about 15 or less; wherein the maximum absolute distance of any point on the plan shape from the simple closed path is about 0.015 inches to about 0.050 inches; wherein the plurality of dimples having a non-circular plan shape defined by a low frequency periodic function mapped along a simple closed path have a Degree of Interdigitation DOI of about 0.05 to about 0.50, DOI being defined by the following equation: D \ue89e \ue89e O \ue89e \ue89e I = 1 n \ue89e \u2211 k = 1 n \ue89e ( R 1 + R 2 D - 1 ) k where R 1  is the maximum radial distance of a first dimple having a first center, R 2  is the maximum radial distance of a second dimple having a second center, D is the distance between the first center and the second center, and the first dimple is adjacent to the second dimple on the surface; and wherein each one of the dimples having a non-circular plan shape defined by a low frequency periodic function mapped along a simple closed path comprises a first dimple profile and a second dimple profile, the first dimple profile having a first edge angle (\u03a6 EDGE1 ) and a second edge angle (\u03a6 EDGE2 ) and the second dimple profile having a third edge angle (\u03a6 EDGE3 ) and a fourth edge angle (\u03a6 EDGE4 ), wherein at least two of \u03a6 EDGE1 , \u03a6 EDGE2 , \u03a6 EDGE3  and \u03a6 EDGE4  have different values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15912467', '15228502', '14948252', '14948251', '14941841']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6784452111926956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6670606584508973
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6773067559185159
- Mean Citation Score: 510.648572
- Max Citation Score: 674.71893
- Similarity Product: 637.9539982026422

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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