PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["052", "404200"]

Abstract:
A horizontal roof deck assembly has a ribbed steel roof deck sufficiently strong to withstand specified gravity, uplift, and shear loads. Rigid substrate boards are positioned adjacent one another above the deck, defining end and side joints. End joints are parallel to and above a corresponding upper rib of the roof deck and are secured to the upper rib by compression disk fasteners spaced along the end joint. The side joints can be tongue and groove joints. Additional fasteners attach the substrate boards to the roof deck along the side joints, for wind uplift resistance, and for thermal movement resistance.

Claim (Index 1):
A substantially horizontal, built-up roof assembly comprising:\n a corrugated steel roof deck defining a plurality of alternating upper and lower ribs and having sufficient strength, by itself and without reliance on combined strength characteristics of multiple roof assembly components to meet load requirements, to withstand predetermined gravity, wind uplift, and diaphragm shear loads on the roof assembly; a plurality of rigid substrate boards having opposed ends and opposed sides, the substrate boards positioned adjacent one another and above the roof deck, adjacent substrate boards defining end joints at adjacent ends and side joints at adjacent sides, the rigid substrate boards prone to relative movement upon application of stress to the roof deck assembly; each of the end joints positioned parallel to and above a corresponding upper rib of the corrugated roof deck, the substrate boards at each end joint secured to the corresponding upper rib by a plurality of compression disk fasteners spaced along and positioned in the end joint; the side joints comprising tongue and groove joints, each of the side joints positioned to span across multiple upper ribs of the roof deck; a plurality of spaced apart side joint fasteners attaching the substrate boards to the roof deck along the side joints, the side joint fasteners and compression disk fasteners positioned in the end joints minimizing relative movement of the rigid substrate boards at the joints between the rigid substrate boards; a plurality of wind uplift resistance fasteners attaching the rigid substrate boards to the roof deck, the wind uplift resistance fasteners proximate the center of the rigid substrate boards; and a plurality of thermal movement fasteners attaching the rigid substrate boards to the roof deck, the thermal movement fasteners spaced from the sides of the rigid substrate boards; and a roof covering membrane fully adhered to an upper surface defined by the plurality of rigid substrate boards, the membrane protected against failure by the minimizing of relative movement of the rigid substrate boards.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80328
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14970409', '14476947', '13613601', '10188940', '10748772']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.822209580700234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908017878716191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7890688014173726
- Mean Citation Score: 200.66301600000003
- Max Citation Score: 223.68565
- Similarity Product: 160.6277211815834

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