PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16241889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "114000"]

Abstract:
Flood barrier assemblies in land near a water frontage shoreline have next adjacent panels actively erectable into a continuous barrier preventing flooding of the land. In one configuration one lateral side of a panel is a contact surface and the other lateral side carries a gasket. The panels are sequentially raised with a first to raise panel presenting a contact surface to the gasket of the next adjacent second to raise panel. In another configuration, a contact surface is on opposing lateral sides of two panels separated by a next adjacent panel between them having gaskets on both its lateral sides. The spaced first panels raise before the second panel. The raised panels may be in a linear or curved array or a combination of linear and curved arrays. Either configuration and order of raising erects a flood barrier wall sealed panel to panel by the gasket between adjacent panels.

Claim (Index 27):
A method comprising:\n (a) providing on land, near a shoreline of water frontage, a plurality of flood barrier assemblies series comprising: at least one support pan situated on said land beneath the surface of the land, a plurality of laterally next adjacent panels, each panel having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front end, a back end, and lateral sides at an imagined projected intersecting angle to said shoreline and of a length that runs from said back end to at least near the front end of the panel, the panel residing lowered in said support pan, hingedly rotatable on a substantially horizontal first axis of rotation at said back end of the panel to rotate upwardly from said pan to an upright raised position where invading flood water will be contained behind said bottom surface of the panel, said next adjacent panels having either (i) a first configuration in which one panel has (a) a gasket attached to a panel lateral side that is next adjacent to the other panel of the pair, said gasket coursing the length of said panel lateral side and (b) a contact surface on the other lateral side of such panel than the lateral side to which said gasket is attached, said contact side running the length of said other lateral side, or (ii) a second configuration in which a first panel separates two panels next adjacent to the first panel, the two panels having a contact surface on at least one lateral side next adjacent the first panel, such contact surface running the length of said lateral side, the first panel having a gasket attached on each of its lateral sides running the length of the lateral side to which such gasket is attached, or (iii) a third configuration comprising a combination of one or more panels of said first configuration and one or more panels of said second configuration, and (b) raising said panels from said substantially horizontal disposition to said upright position, pressure of the gasket against the contact surface of the panels resisting a hydrostatic force of water contained behind said bottom surface of the panels and providing a positive seal against water passing between said panels, said plurality of next adjacent panels providing a continuous water barrier preventing flooding of the land on the top surface side of said panels when raised to said upright position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05195
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12979048', '15650509', '14373415', '15650463', '14773124']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7547401088571998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917439112738578
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7284404890988656
- Mean Citation Score: 207.488126
- Max Citation Score: 225.17711
- Similarity Product: 163.98637720651806

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

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