PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16263699
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "345000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a face with a striking surface configured for striking a ball and a channel extending across a portion of the sole. The channel may be recessed from adjacent surfaces of the sole and have 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 width and the depth of the center portion of the channel are substantially constant, and wherein the depth of the channel is greater at the heel and toe portions than at the center portion.

Claim (Index 18):
A golf club head comprising:\n a face having a striking surface configured for striking a ball; a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face, the body having a crown, a sole, a heel, and a toe, wherein the body and the face combine to define an internal cavity, and wherein the golf club head has a volume of at least 400 cubic centimeters; an elongated channel extending across a portion of the sole in a heel to toe direction, wherein the elongated channel is recessed from adjacent surfaces of the sole and has a depth of recession from the adjacent surfaces of the sole, wherein the elongated 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; and wherein the elongated channel has a variable maximum width and a variable maximum depth of recession along a length of the elongated channel, wherein the elongated channel comprises a wall thickness, the variable maximum width defined in a front to rear direction and the variable maximum depth of recession defined from the adjacent surfaces of the sole at a vertical plane passing through the face center, wherein a ratio of the width to the depth is approximately 3.5:1 to 4.5:1, wherein a wall thickness of the center portion is 1.25 to 2.25 times greater than a wall thickness of the toe portion or a wall thickness of the heel portion, wherein the elongated channel has a boundary that is defined by a front edge and a rear edge that extend between the first end and the second end of the elongated channel, and the front edge and the rear edge at the heel portion and the toe portion are angled away from each other such that the elongated channel width at the heel and toe portion gradually increase toward the heel and the toe respectively, and further wherein the depth of heel portion and the toe portion of the elongated channel increase from the center portion toward the heel and the toe, respectively, and a pair of internal ribs extending from an internal portion of a rear of the golf club head along the sole and connecting to an internal portion of a rear wall of the elongated channel; and wherein the pair of internal ribs are substantially parallel to each other, wherein the front edge of the elongated channel is rearwardly offset from the striking surface of the face a rearward spacing distance, wherein the rearward spacing distance of the front edge of the elongated channel is approximately 8.5 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80769
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15681125', '14593754', '14593752', '14593782', '15681119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7965465702779545
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6588798612086135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7827798993710204
- Mean Citation Score: 638.566232
- Max Citation Score: 648.28894
- Similarity Product: 640.2512962197969

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