PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["405", "274000"]

Abstract:
A sheet pile retaining wall system employing corrugated sheet piles not requiring temporary shoring to be used when widening and/or stabilization of existing highway embankment. The wall system provides a front face wall having a plurality of resistance fins perpendicularly extending therefrom via three-way connectors. The fin sheet piles first include a brace fin sheet for reducing stresses in the front face wall, then a series of additional resistance fin sheets terminating at an elevation below the face wall for accommodating a pipe drainage/utility cradle. Between the slope of the existing embankment, a temporary excavation bench, an excavation backslope, and the higher front face wall is reinforced concrete backfill for pre-stressing the wall system when fluid—and, when set, optionally engaging supplementary structural features within the set concrete backfill such as dowels/tie down anchors.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet pile embankment retaining and/or stabilizing system, comprising:\n a face wall defining a front face of the embankment having an existing gradient; the face wall including a plurality of face wall sheet piles, wherein each face wall sheet pile terminates at a cantilever elevation located above the gradient; at least one brace fin sheet pile, each brace fin sheet pile spaced apart, along and perpendicularly connected to the face wall, each brace fin sheet pile terminating at a brace elevation located between the cantilever elevation of the face wall and the gradient; a plurality of additional resistance fin sheet piles connected linearly to each brace fin sheet pile, each plurality of resistance fin sheet piles terminating at a cradle elevation located below the cantilever elevation, wherein each plurality of interconnected resistance fin sheet piles interconnects each respective brace fin sheet pile so that said respective fin sheet piles define a linear relationship relative to each other; a temporary excavation bench defined by an absence of removed embankment between adjacent plurality of fin sheet piles to at least eighteen inches below the cradle elevation; and a reinforced concrete backfill disposed in each backfill space defined by the gradient, the temporary excavation bench, an excavation backslope, the face wall, and adjacent pluralities of fin sheet piles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.625
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15799162', '15601454', '10801123', '14495600', '12348431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7512336122413015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.600104537589689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7361207047761402
- Mean Citation Score: 283.7026580000001
- Max Citation Score: 524.16785
- Similarity Product: 486.77304665433167

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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