Patent ID: 8397466

Claim:
A synthetic floor tile system, comprising: a substantially planar subfloor; a plurality of synthetic floor tiles disposed atop the planar subfloor, wherein each of the synthetic floor tiles has top surface oriented parallel to the subfloor and substantially orthogonal to the direction of gravity, wherein each of the floor tiles comprises: a perimeter wall enclosing a perimeter boundary for the tile; and a top surface having a substantially planar upper lattice that forms a grid extending within the perimeter wall and a lower lattice forming a grid extending within the perimeter wall, wherein the lower lattice is oriented generally transverse to the upper lattice and is disposed beneath the upper lattice so as to draw moisture from the upper lattice to the lower lattice in the direction of gravity and through drainage gaps formed in the lower lattice, wherein said drainage gaps extend from the top surface to a bottom surface of the tile; wherein the male and female connectors comprise loop and pin connectors, situated about the perimeter wall and configured to facilitate interconnection of the tile with similar adjacent tiles; where said pin connectors comprise a reinforcement member configured to relieve or reduce stresses therein by distributing loads acting on said pin connector from various forces along a greater portion of said pin connectors; wherein said reinforcement member comprises a nonlinear curved section having a radius, that extends from an edge surface of said pin connector to a bottom surface of said perimeter wall; and a plurality of male connectors disposed about two sides of the tile and a plurality of female connectors disposed about the other two sides of the tile.