PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780190
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["296", "187010"]

Abstract:
Structural beam which comprises a first beam and a cover plate to be attached to the first beam. The first beam has a substantially U-shaped cross-section along at least a first portion of its length. The U-shape comprises a bottom wall, two sidewalls, a lateral flange at an end of at least one of the two sidewalls, and a groove in the junction between the sidewall and the lateral flange. The groove has a substantially flat first joining region at or near the bottom of the groove. The cover plate of the structural beam has a substantially flat second joining region welded to a first joining region. Methods for manufacturing such beams are also provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A structural beam comprising:\n a first beam and a cover plate configured to be attached to the first beam, the first beam having\n a cross-section with a substantially U-shape along at least a first portion of its length, the U-shape including a bottom wall, and two sidewalls, and wherein \n the cross-section further comprises an outwardly projecting lateral flange at an end of at least one of the two sidewalls, and a groove in a junction between the sidewall and the outwardly projecting lateral flange, wherein\n the groove has a first joining region at or near the bottom of the groove, \n \n the first joining region being substantially flat and \n the cover plate having a substantially flat second joining region wherein the cover plate is welded to the first beam at first and second joining regions, and wherein the first joining region and the second joining region have a width of about 2-10 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13793
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15776054', '15816985', '15308348', '15035207', '14782732']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7693177022742699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4743532702774671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7398212590745896
- Mean Citation Score: 205.841136
- Max Citation Score: 249.28688
- Similarity Product: 184.9564034462261

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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