PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "588100"]

Abstract:
A floor panel comprises coupling parts in the form of a tongue and groove connection with locking elements; wherein the groove is bordered by an upper lip and a lower lip; and wherein the one locking element is provided on the lower side of the tongue and the other locking element is provided on the upper side of the lower lip; characterized in that the most upward-situated point of the locking element on the lower lip is situated at a distance of at least ⅓ times the thickness of the floor panel from the underside of the floor panel; and that the minimum thickness of the lower lip is maximum ¼ times the thickness of the floor panel.

Claim (Index 1):
A floor panel for forming a floor covering, comprising a first edge with a first coupling part and a second, opposite edge with a second coupling part, wherein the aforementioned coupling parts are configured such that they allow coupling two of such floor panels to each other and thus realizing a coupled condition on the respective edge;\n wherein the first coupling part is realized in the form of a tongue and the second coupling part is realized in the form of a groove, wherein said groove is bordered by an upper lip and a lower lip, wherein said tongue and groove, in coupled condition, form a tongue and groove connection which, at the respective edge, forms a locking between the coupled panels in a first direction perpendicular to the plane of the panels; wherein the lower lip protrudes beyond the free end of the upper lip and the portion of the lower lip, which protrudes beyond the free end of the upper lip, has a length, as measured according to the direction in the plane of the panel and perpendicular to the edge, which is smaller than the thickness of the floor panel; wherein the coupling parts each comprise a locking element, wherein said locking elements, in the coupled condition, counteract the moving apart of the tongue and groove in a second direction in the plane of the panels and perpendicular to the coupled edges and thus realize a locking between the coupled panels in the second direction; wherein the locking element of the first coupling part is provided on the lower side of the tongue and the locking element of the second coupling part is provided on the upper side of the lower lip and beyond the free end of the upper lip; wherein the coupling parts are configured such that the locking elements of two of such panels can be brought one behind the other by means of a turning movement of the one panel in respect to the other; wherein the most upward-situated point of the locking element on the lower lip is situated at a distance, measured according to the direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panel, of at least \u2153 times the thickness of the floor panel from the underside of the floor panel; and wherein the minimum thickness of the lower lip is maximum \u00bc times the thickness of the floor panel, wherein the lower lip reaches its minimum thickness between the free end of the upper lip and the locking element on the lower lip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41176
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15110268', '15054530', '11454059', '11481806', '15388076']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8551378407351397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4701927205285352
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8166433287144792
- Mean Citation Score: 233.44019
- Max Citation Score: 236.52322
- Similarity Product: 211.6718251597893

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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