PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937091
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "383000"]

Abstract:
In a golf ball, dimples are arranged on a spherical polyhedron formed by dividing a surface of a sphere using small circles and great circles only on the equator, without arranging the dimples on a spherical polyhedron formed by dividing a surface of a sphere using great circles. The formed spherical polyhedron includes two spherical regular hexagons centered on a pole, twelve near-pole spherical isosceles triangles, twelve near-equator spherical pentagons, and twelve near-equator spherical isosceles triangles, in which the dimples are arranged. Thus, a dimple area ratio may be improved by 2 to 4%, compared to the prior art in which dimples are arranged in spherical polygons of a cubeoctahedron (or an octahedron) divided by great circles.

Claim (Index 1):
A golf ball having dimples arranged in spherical polygons, wherein, when an arbitrary point on a surface of a sphere is set to be a pole P, the spherical polygons are formed by dividing the surface of the sphere by a small circle line segment passing through Point  1  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 12\u00b0), Point  13  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude) 30\u00b0, Point  20  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 60\u00b0), Point  21  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 120\u00b0), Point  15  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 150\u00b0), and Point  6  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 168\u00b0); again by a small circle line segment passing through Point  2  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 48\u00b0), Point  13  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 30\u00b0), Point  19  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 0\u00b0), Point  24  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 300\u00b0), Point  17  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 270\u00b0), and Point  9  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude) 252\u00b0; again by a small circle line segment passing through Point  3  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 72\u00b0), Point  14  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 90\u00b0), Point  21  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 120\u00b0), Point  22  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 180\u00b0), Point  16  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 210\u00b0), and Point  8  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 228\u00b0); again by a small circle line segment passing through Point  4  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 108\u00b0), Point  14  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 90\u00b0), Point  20  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 60\u00b0), Point  19  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 0\u00b0), Point  18  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 330\u00b0), and Point  11  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 312\u00b0); again by a small circle line segment passing through Point  5  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 132\u00b0), Point  15  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 150\u00b0), Point  22  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude) 180\u00b0, Point  23  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 240\u00b0), Point  17  (latitude 40340891453\u00b0, longitude 270\u00b0), and Point  10  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 288\u00b0); again by a small circle line segment passing through Point  7  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 192\u00b0), Point  16  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude 210\u00b0), Point  23  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 240\u00b0), Point  24  (latitude 59.5716612\u00b0, longitude 300\u00b0), Point  18  (latitude 40.340891453\u00b0, longitude) 330\u00b0, and Point  12  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 348\u00b0); and again by a line segment which is used as an equator connecting Point  1  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 12\u00b0), Point  3  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 72\u00b0), Point  5  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 132\u00b0), Point  7  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 192\u00b0), Point  9  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 252\u00b0), Point  11  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 312\u00b0), and Point  1  (latitude 0\u00b0, longitude 12\u00b0)

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01538
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15077079', '10361574', '11386722', '10827929', '10913391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6761884615552066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5888177016750987
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6674513855671959
- Mean Citation Score: 400.305336
- Max Citation Score: 566.3783599999998
- Similarity Product: 393.4202083113598

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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