PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106473
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["052", "390000"]

Abstract:
A composite reinforced hybrid wood floor for cargo-carrying truck trailers, truck bodies, and containers is provided. Two or more different types of woods are mixed in a controlled manner, arranged in a pattern and glued together to form hybrid wood board and a fiber/polymer composite layer is bonded to the underside of the hybrid wood board to form the composite reinforced hybrid wood floor boards provided herein. The composite reinforced hybrid wood floor provides weight reduction and/or cost savings as compared with a conventional composite wood floor made of a single type of wood, such as oak or hard maple.

Claim (Index 1):
A composite hybrid wood board for use in a cargo-carrying trailer floor, the composite hybrid wood board having a length along a major axis, a width along a minor axis, an upper surface, a lower surface, and a thickness between the upper surface and lower surface, the composite hybrid wood board comprising:\n an upper layer of a hybrid wood board, wherein the hybrid wood board comprises a plurality of hardwood strips having longitudinal and lateral edges, each of the hardwood strips having a front end, a back end, a length and width less than the length and width of the hybrid wood board, respectively; wherein the ends of the hardwood strips are shaped to form a longitudinal connection or end-joint with other strips at the front end and back end of the hardwood strips; and the hardwood strips are arranged in side-by-side rows and glued together to form the hybrid wood board; said hybrid wood board having a rectangular projecting lip running along the length of the board at an edge of the board and further having a crusher bead at an edge of the board; wherein the hardwood strips comprise a first type and a second type of hardwood strips, the first type of hardwood strips comprising one or more species of hardwood and the first type of hardwood strips having a first average specific gravity; the second type of hardwood strips comprising one or more species of hardwood and the second type of hardwood strips having a second average specific gravity, wherein the first type of hardwood strips comprises one or more species of hardwood selected from the group consisting of red oak, white oak, mixtures of red and white oak, hard maple, hickory and any combinations thereof; and wherein the second type of hardwood comprises one or more species of hardwood selected from the group consisting of poplar, birch, beech, soft maple, ash, and any combinations thereof; and wherein the first average specific gravity is higher than the second average specific gravity, and the first and second types of hardwood strips are arranged next to one another both along the longitudinal and lateral edges of each respective hardwood strip in order to form a pattern of parallel, repeating rectangular strips in at least a portion of the hybrid wood board, wherein said pattern of parallel, repeating rectangular strips is selected from the group consisting of:\n one row of hardwood strips of the first type is adjacent to one row of hardwood strips of the second type in at least a portion of the board; \n a plurality of rows of hardwood strips of the first type is adjacent to a plurality of rows of hardwood strips of the second type in at least a portion of the board; \n the rows of hardwood strips of the first type are in an alternating pattern with the rows of hardwood strips of the second type in at least a portion of the board; and \n the rows of hardwood strips of the first type are in an alternating pattern with the rows of hardwood strips of the second type in at least a portion of the board and the rows of hardwood strips at the edges of the board comprise either the first or second type of hardwood; and \n a bottom layer of a fiber reinforced polymer composite, wherein the bottom layer is bonded to the upper layer, and the average dry shear strength of glue bonds between hardwood strips exceeds 1850 psi.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72581
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14627998', '14628007', '14548478', '10932519', '15646872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8496664273765311
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6996565173673666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8346654363756146
- Mean Citation Score: 480.104574
- Max Citation Score: 740.5191
- Similarity Product: 735.4592529104948

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

Dataset: test