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 1):
A method for providing a continuous insulated wall, the method comprising:\n providing a frame comprising a plurality of structural support members coupled together, the frame comprising a plurality of cavities defined by adjacent structural support members; positioning a plurality of insulative foam boards adjacent the frame so as to form a continuous wall over the frame, the continuous wall having a plurality of penetrations that extend through the plurality of insulative foam boards; coupling the plurality of insulative foam boards to the frame with a plurality of fasteners having an elongate shaft that penetrates through one of said plurality of insulative foam boards and into one of said plurality of structural support members so as to attach the insulative foam board to the structural support member, wherein each fastener includes a cap having a diameter of between 1 and 4 inches, the cap being positioned on the insulative foam board when the elongate shaft is inserted through the insulative foam board and into the structural support member so as to distribute an applied load to the insulative foam board, wherein a shape of the cap is configured to hinder insertion of the cap into the insulative foam board and over insertion of the elongate shaft into the insulative foam board; applying a sealing tape over seams between adjacent insulative foam boards; and sealing the plurality of fasteners and the plurality of penetrations that extend through the plurality of insulative foam boards to form 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 and that restricts a transport of water vapor through the continuous wall to less than or equal 1 grain/hr-ft2-inHg and that further 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): 0.8627723679682059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5814054945103788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8346356806224232
- Mean Citation Score: 403.31715
- Max Citation Score: 484.65887
- Similarity Product: 477.4272703768139

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