PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "309400"]

Abstract:
A floor panel may include a substrate and a top layer located above the substrate. The substrate may include a closed cell foamed synthetic material layer with fillers, and have an average density of more than 300 kilograms per cubic meter. The top layer may include a back layer, a printed synthetic material film above the back layer, and a transparent or translucent synthetic material wear layer above the printed synthetic material film. The back layer may include a vinyl compound with fillers, and have a thickness of at least 45 percent of the thickness of the top layer. The floor panel may include first mechanical coupling parts at the pair of long edges and second mechanical coupling parts at the pair of short edges. The first mechanical coupling parts may allow horizontal and vertical locking of two of such floor panels using a turning movement along the respective long edges.

Claim (Index 10):
A floor panel comprising:\n a substrate; and a top layer located above and glued to the substrate; wherein the substrate includes a closed cell foamed PVC board with fillers; wherein the closed cell foamed PVC board has an average density of more than 300 kilograms per cubic meter; wherein the closed cell foamed PVC board has a top flat side and a bottom flat side; wherein the closed cell foamed PVC board has a local density on the top flat side and the bottom flat side which is higher than in a central layer of the closed cell foamed PVC board; wherein the top layer includes a back layer, a printed synthetic material film located above the back layer and a transparent or translucent synthetic material wear layer located above the printed synthetic material film; wherein the back layer comprises a vinyl compound with fillers; wherein the back layer has a thickness of at least 45 percent of the thickness of the top layer; wherein the back layer is the thickest and densest layer of the top layer; wherein the top layer has a density of more than 500 kilograms per cubic meter; wherein the top layer has a higher density than the substrate; wherein the floor panel is rectangular and oblong and includes a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges; wherein the floor panel includes first mechanical coupling parts at the pair of long edges and second mechanical coupling parts at the pair of short edges; wherein the first mechanical coupling parts allow a horizontal and vertical locking of two of such floor panels using a turning movement along the respective edges; wherein the first mechanical coupling parts include a tongue and a groove; wherein the groove is flanked by an upper lip and a lower lip; wherein the first mechanical coupling parts include a vertical locking mechanism having a vertically active locking surface at the upper side of the tongue and a vertically active locking surface at the lower side of the upper lip; wherein the first mechanical coupling parts include a horizontal locking mechanism having a horizontally active locking surface at the lower side of the tongue and a horizontally active locking surface at the upper side of the lower lip; and wherein both said horizontally active locking surfaces and both said vertically active locking surfaces are formed completely in the material of the closed cell foamed PVC board.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16158612', '15964142', '15964399', '14632088', '15045389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8334457398654604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5391484042786371
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804016006306778
- Mean Citation Score: 355.08772600000015
- Max Citation Score: 381.69788
- Similarity Product: 362.3395830847883

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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