PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948267
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["473", "373000"]

Abstract:
In a multi-piece solid golf ball made up of, successively, a core, an intermediate layer and a cover having numerous dimples on the surface thereof, the intermediate layer is formed of a resin material and the cover is formed of a urethane resin material, each having a specific respective Shore D hardness. The ball has a specific (intermediate layer thickness)/(core diameter) value and a specific (cover thickness)/(core diameter) value, and the core has a specific deflection. The sphere consisting of the core encased by the intermediate layer has an initial velocity A and the core has an initial velocity B which together satisfy the condition A−B≥0 m/s. This golf ball provides an increased distance and has both a soft feel when played and a high durability to repeated impact.

Claim (Index 1):
A multi-piece solid golf ball comprising a core, an intermediate layer encasing the core and a cover which encases the intermediate layer and has numerous dimples formed on an outside surface thereof (ball surface), wherein the intermediate layer is formed of a resin material, the cover is formed of a urethane resin material; the intermediate layer has a material hardness on the Shore D hardness scale of from 61 to 70, the cover has a material hardness on the Shore D hardness scale of 55 or less, the (intermediate layer thickness)/(core diameter) value is from 0.025 to 0.043, the (cover thickness)/(core diameter) value is from 0.014 to 0.027, the core has a deflection when compressed under a final load of 1,275 N (130 kgf) from an initial load of 98 N (10 kgf) of at least 4.2 mm, and the sphere consisting of the core encased by the intermediate layer (intermediate layer-encased sphere) has an initial velocity A and the core has an initial velocity B which together satisfy the condition A\u2212B\u22650 m/s.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06849
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14859802', '15460732', '15934172', '12635327', '14873370']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7216547052558602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5488275211364171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7043719868439159
- Mean Citation Score: 435.147196
- Max Citation Score: 442.7227
- Similarity Product: 329.90486060095435

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