PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255658
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "309400"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an insulated structure includes a frame comprising a plurality of wall studs coupled together and a plurality of foam boards attached to the frame to form a continuous insulative wall. A plurality of fasteners attaches the foam boards to the frame. Each fastener includes an elongate shaft and a cap. The elongate shaft is configured to penetrate through a foam board and into a wall stud to couple the components together. The cap is configured to be positioned atop a foam board to distribute a load relatively evenly to the foam board. A sealing tape is applied across seams between adjacent foam boards and over the fasteners' caps to seal the wall. A sealing caulk is applied to secondary fasteners and penetrations to seal the wall. In some embodiments, the structure has a fastener density of about 1 fastener per 243 in 2  of foam board.

Claim (Index 9):
An insulated structure comprising:\n a frame comprising a plurality of structural support members coupled together, wherein the structural support members form a plurality of cavities between adjacent structural support members; a plurality of insulative foam boards attached to the frame to form a continuous wall of the structure, the continuous wall having a plurality of penetrations that extend through the plurality of insulative foam boards; a plurality of fasteners that attach each insulative foam board to the frame, wherein each fastener comprises an elongate shaft that penetrates through one of said plurality of insulative foam boards and into one of said plurality of structural support members to couple the frame and the insulative foam boards together, wherein each fastener comprises a cap that extends radially from the elongate shaft, the cap being positioned atop the insulative foam board to distribute an applied load to the insulative foam board, wherein a shape of the cap is configured to hinder over insertion of the elongate shaft into the insulative foam board; a sealing tape applied across seams between adjacent insulative foam boards; and a sealant applied to the plurality of fasteners and the plurality of penetrations that extend through the plurality of insulative foam boards such that the continuous wall forms an effective air barrier, water vapor barrier, and water penetration barrier on an exterior side of the continuous wall that restricts a passage of air through the continuous wall to less than about 0.2 L/(s-m 2 ) at a pressure of 75 Pa, that restricts a transport of water vapor through the continuous wall to less than or equal to 1 grain/hr-ft2-inHg, and that restricts penetration of water through the continuous wall as tested in accordance with AC71.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15284209', '13900063', '15495280', '14299571', '12483331']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8630668920110065
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.580017371461881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8347619399560939
- Mean Citation Score: 403.31715
- Max Citation Score: 484.65887
- Similarity Product: 469.5408393879735

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

Dataset: test