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 10):
A golf ball having dimples arranged in virtual spherical polygons formed by dividing a surface of a sphere using virtual dividing lines,\n wherein, when there are two hemispheres divided by an equator, each hemisphere is divided by the equator that divides the sphere into two, and six small circle line segments arranged symmetrically with respect to a pole that is the farthest from the equator, to form a spherical regular hexagon with respect to the pole, each of the six small circle line segments being shorter than half of the length of the equator, wherein the virtual spherical polygons formed on the sphere comprise one spherical regular hexagon centered on the pole, six middle spherical isosceles triangles having one side of the spherical regular hexagon as a base, six near-equator spherical isosceles triangles sharing a near-equator vertex with the middle spherical isosceles triangles and having a base on the equator, six spherical pentagons located between the middle spherical isosceles triangles and the near-equator spherical isosceles triangles and having one side on the equator, wherein the two hemispheres are combined with each other by rotating one hemisphere by 30\u00b0 relative to the other hemisphere with respect to a reference line passing through poles of the two hemispheres and perpendicular to a plane where the equator is located, such that the small circle line segments on one hemisphere are connected to the small circle line segments on the other hemisphere, thereby forming smooth curves.

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): 0.67456897517434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5934004502975201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.666452122686658
- Mean Citation Score: 400.305336
- Max Citation Score: 566.3783599999998
- Similarity Product: 411.1903917425869

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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