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 7):
A composite hybrid wood floor in a vehicular trailer for carrying cargo, the composite hybrid wood floor comprising a plurality of composite hybrid wood boards, said trailer having a front end and rear end;\n each of the composite hybrid wood boards 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 and two lateral edges along the major axis; and each of the composite hybrid wood boards comprises:\n an upper layer of hybrid wood board having a first area by the front end of trailer, a third area by the rear end of trailer and a second area of transition between the first and third areas; and \n a bottom layer of fiber reinforced polymer composite, \n wherein the upper layer of hybrid wood board comprises a plurality of hardwood strips having longitudinal and lateral edges, each hardwood strip having a length and width less than the length and width of a hardwood board, respectively; wherein the hardwood strips are arranged in side-by-side rows and glued together to form the hardwood board and the hardwood strips comprising a first type and a second type of hardwood strips; wherein the first type of hardwood strips comprises one or more species of hardwood selected from the group consisting of red oak, white oak, mixture of red and white oaks and hard maple; wherein the second type of hardwood strips comprises one or more species of hardwood selected from the group consisting of poplar, birch, beech, soft maple, and ash; and wherein 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 first area 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 wherein the bottom layer of fiber reinforced polymer composite is bonded to the upper layer of hybrid wood board.

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): 0.8499588838706228
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6983130818761688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8347943036711774
- Mean Citation Score: 480.104574
- Max Citation Score: 740.5191
- Similarity Product: 731.3316083623407

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

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