PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16234747
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "435000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a blind zone indication module that includes a plastic housing having a front end configured for attaching the blind zone indication module at the rear side of the mirror reflective element. When at least one light emitting diode of the blind zone indication module is electrically powered, light emitted by the light emitting diode exits the blind zone indication module via a light-transmitting portion of the front end of the plastic housing of the blind zone indication module. With the blind zone indication module disposed at the mirror reflective element, and with the light-transmitting portion of the front end of the plastic housing juxtaposed with a light-transmitting aperture of the mirror back plate, light emitted by the light emitting diode passes through the mirror reflective element.

Claim (Index 45):
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly, said vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly comprising:\n a mirror reflector sub-assembly; said mirror reflector sub-assembly comprising a mirror reflective element having a front outermost side and an opposing rear side that is spaced from the front outermost side by a thickness dimension of said mirror reflective element; said mirror reflector sub-assembly comprising a mirror back plate having a front side and an opposing rear side that is spaced from the front side by a thickness dimension of said mirror back plate; wherein said mirror back plate comprises a light-transmitting aperture; said mirror reflector sub-assembly comprising a blind zone indication module; said blind zone indication module comprising a plastic housing; wherein the plastic housing comprises (i) a front end configured for attaching said blind zone indication module at the rear side of said mirror reflective element and (ii) a rear end opposite the front end; wherein the front end of the plastic housing comprises an attaching surface configured to attach said blind zone indication module at said mirror reflective element; said blind zone indication module comprising a circuit board having a first side and a second side opposing the first side that is spaced from the first side by a thickness dimension of the circuit board; wherein at least one light emitting diode is disposed at the first side of the circuit board; wherein the front end of the plastic housing of said blind zone indication module comprises a light-transmitting portion; wherein said blind zone indication module comprises a diffuser that diffuses light emitted by the at least one light emitting diode when the at least one light emitting diode is electrically powered; wherein, when the at least one light emitting diode is electrically powered, light emitted by the at least one light emitting diode exits said blind zone indication module via the light-transmitting portion of the front end of the plastic housing of said blind zone indication module; wherein, with said blind zone indication module disposed at the rear side of said mirror back plate with the light-transmitting portion of the front end of the plastic housing of said blind zone indication module juxtaposed with the light-transmitting aperture of said mirror back plate, light emitted by the at least one light emitting diode passes through said mirror reflective element; wherein the circuit board of said blind zone indication module comprises circuitry; wherein circuitry of the circuit board comprises the at least one light emitting diode; wherein a heater pad is disposed between the front side of said mirror back plate and the rear side of said mirror reflective element with a light-transmitting aperture of said heater pad juxtaposed with the light-transmitting aperture of said mirror back plate; wherein said heater pad comprises a front side and an opposing rear side that is spaced from the front side by a thickness dimension of said heater pad; wherein the front side of said heater pad adhesively attaches to the rear side of said mirror reflective element; wherein size of the light-transmitting aperture of said heater pad is smaller than size of the light-transmitting aperture of said mirror back plate; wherein size of the front end of the plastic housing of said blind zone indication module is smaller than size of the light-transmitting aperture of said mirror back plate; wherein size of the front end of the plastic housing of said blind zone indication module is larger than size of the light-transmitting aperture of said heater pad; wherein the front end of the plastic housing of said blind zone indication module adhesively attaches to the rear side of said heater pad; wherein, when the at least one light emitting diode is electrically powered, light emitted by the at least one light emitting diode illuminates an icon of said mirror reflective element that is viewable by a driver of a vehicle equipped with said vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly; wherein said mirror reflective element comprises a glass substrate coated with a mirror reflector coating; and wherein the icon of said mirror reflective element comprises a light-transmitting window established by ablation of said mirror reflector coating to form the icon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 236.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52727
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15600827', '16147942', '15278109', '15700271', '15149336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7451329115305495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5633967911205652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7269592994895511
- Mean Citation Score: 406.43158000000005
- Max Citation Score: 421.08597
- Similarity Product: 368.9287049790715

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

Dataset: test