PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016874
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["405", "115000"]

Abstract:
A portable, water-filled barrier system includes a plurality of water-fillable modules, each module being internally divided into cells that emulates a section of a sandbag dike or wall. The modules include a first plurality having a rectangular base shape and at least one wedge module having a triangular or trapezoidal shape. In embodiments, the wedge modules can be installed in a front-forward or front rear-ward orientation according to a desired bending direction of the barrier. Automatic valves can seal openings between the filled cells, so that a punctured cell will not cause cells below and behind to deflate. A manifold can be used to simultaneously fill a plurality of cells. A flexible sheet or a plurality of interlocking sheets can be installed beneath and in front of the assembled barrier so as to protect the barrier from damage and inhibit leakage of water under or between the cells.

Claim (Index 1):
A water-inflatable barrier system comprising:\n a first module group including a plurality of substantially identical barrier modules, each module of the first module group including:\n flexible walls forming a module shell configured to contain water within an interior of the module, said module shell having a front, a rear, a substantially rectangular bottom, a length parallel to the front, a width perpendicular to the front, and a cross section that is wider at a bottom of the module than at a top of the module; \n a plurality of substantially horizontal and substantially vertical to partition walls dividing said interior of said module into a plurality of adjacent, water-tight cells shaped as rectangular parallelepipeds, front and rear partition walls of each cell being substantially parallel to the front of the module shell, said cells being arranged in a plurality of vertically stacked layers that are offset from each other such that none of the front and rear partition walls aligns with a front or rear partition wall in a vertically adjacent layer; \n a water inlet in liquid communication with the interior of the module; and \n a plurality of passages between the cells of the module that are configured to allow filling of all of the cells of the module with water from the water inlet; \n and \n a second module group including at least one barrier module, each module in the second module group including:\n flexible walls forming a module shell configured to contain water within an interior of the module, said module shell having a front, a back, and a substantially triangular or trapezoidal bottom; and \n a water inlet in liquid communication with the interior of the module; \n the modules of said first and second module groups being configured for assembly together into a water barrier, wherein adjacent assembly of modules of the first module group form an assembly having a lateral extension that is uniform in direction, whereas including at least one module of the second module group in the assembly causes the lateral extension of the barrier to change its direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75556
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15630457', '15382965', '15016606', '14594407', '13663756']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7559598996268728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5321789618996938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.733581805854155
- Mean Citation Score: 320.377982
- Max Citation Score: 357.9555
- Similarity Product: 345.19342098811273

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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