PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179068
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["473", "451000"]

Abstract:
A sports training device attached to the shaft of a swinging sports apparatus, such as a baseball bat. The device includes a drag chute disposed between two rigid members, a support rod disposed between the two rigid members along the longitudinal axis of the chute, and a plurality of coupling elements connected to the support rod. Each coupling element includes an annular opening for positioning of the sports apparatus therethrough. One coupling element has a stationary component that secures the device to the sports apparatus and a rotating component that rotates 360° around the sports apparatus. As such, the entirety of the device, with exception to this stationary component, can substantially freely rotate 360° around the sports apparatus. Resistance during a swing can be adjusted by sliding the coupling mechanisms along the support rod to expose more or less of the chute.

Claim (Index 18):
A rehabilitation apparatus comprising:\n a proximal end opposite a distal end, with a proximal rigid member disposed at the proximal end, and a distal rigid member disposed at the distal end; a drag chute spanning from the proximal end to the distal end, the drag chute being coupled to each of the proximal rigid member and the distal rigid member; a support rod secured to each of the proximal rigid member and the distal rigid member, the support rod spanning along a longitudinal axis of the drag chute from the proximal end to the distal end of the rehabilitation apparatus; a proximal coupling element coupled to the support rod and disposed adjacent to the proximal rigid member, the proximal coupling element defining an aperture through which a user's limb can be inserted, and including a strap disposed thereon, the strap capable of being tightened against an object, such as the user's limb, to secure the object to the rehabilitation apparatus; a distal coupling element coupled to the support rod and disposed between the proximal coupling element and the distal end of the rehabilitation apparatus, the distal coupling element including:\n an outer housing defining an aperture; \n an inner bearing rotatably coupled to the outer housing, the inner bearing including a handle at least partially extending from the outer housing toward the aperture, such that the user's limb can grasp the handle to rotate the inner bearing and/or swing the rehabilitation apparatus, and such that the drag chute provides resistance when the rehabilitation apparatus travels through air during a rehabilitation exercise; and \n an obstruction member disposed on the outer housing and adapted to be in mechanical communication with the inner bearing to control rotation thereof, the obstruction member including:\n a locked orientation, in which the obstruction member is in mechanical communication with the inner bearing, thereby exerting a force on the inner bearing to prevent rotation thereof; and \n an unlocked orientation, in which the obstruction member is not in mechanical communication with the inner bearing, such that an obstruction force is not exerted on the inner bearing, and such that the inner bearing can feely rotate with respect to the outer housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02632
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15683311', '15235915', '15250213', '10466511', '12843829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6419670562855117
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489398352212219
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6326643341790826
- Mean Citation Score: 285.017874
- Max Citation Score: 437.3739
- Similarity Product: 316.039151542908

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