PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16225080
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular camera module includes a housing and an imager assembly having an imager, an imager circuit board and a lens holder. The imager is disposed at the imager circuit board. The lens holder includes a lens holding portion and an attaching portion, with the lens holding portion accommodating a lens. The attaching portion of the lens holder includes a plurality of pins that, when the attaching portion is mated with the circuit board, are received at least partially through apertures of the imager circuit board. With the pins received at least partially through the apertures, and with the lens focused and optically aligned with the imager at the imager circuit board, the pins are soldered at the imager circuit board so as to fixedly attach the lens holder at the imager circuit board to form the imager assembly. The imager assembly is attached at the housing.

Claim (Index 20):
A camera module configured to mount at a receiving structure at an interior surface of a vehicle windshield of a vehicle equipped with a vehicular vision system, said camera module comprising:\n a camera housing, a processing circuit board and an imager assembly; wherein said processing circuit board is accommodated in said camera housing; wherein said imager assembly comprises an imager, an imager circuit board, a lens holder and a lens; wherein said imager circuit board has a first surface and a second surface opposite said first surface; wherein said imager is established at said first surface of said imager circuit board; wherein said lens holder comprises a lens holding portion and an attaching portion; wherein said lens holding portion of said lens holder comprises a generally cylindrical lens barrel that accommodates said lens; wherein said attaching portion of said lens holder of said imager assembly comprises a mating surface that faces away from said lens holding portion of said lens holder; wherein said attaching portion comprises a plurality of pins extending from said mating surface of said attaching portion of said lens holder of said imager assembly; wherein said mating surface mates with said first surface of said imager circuit board when said attaching portion is attached at said imager circuit board; wherein, with said mating surface of said attaching portion of said lens holder mated with said first surface of said imager circuit board, individual pins of said plurality of pins are received at least partially through respective apertures of said imager circuit board; wherein, as received at least partially through the respective apertures of said imager circuit board, said pins locate said lens holder at said imager circuit board; wherein, with said pins received at least partially through the apertures of said imager circuit board, said lens is focused and optically aligned with said imager at said imager circuit board; wherein, with said pins received at least partially through the apertures of said imager circuit board, and with said lens focused and optically aligned with said imager at said imager circuit board, said pins protrude through said imager circuit board and are soldered at said second surface of said imager circuit board so as to fixedly attach said lens holder at said imager circuit board to form said imager assembly; wherein, with said attaching portion of said lens holder attached at said imager circuit board, said imager at said first surface of said imager circuit board is at least partially encased by said attaching portion; wherein said imager assembly is attached at an upper housing portion of said camera housing, and wherein circuitry of said imager circuit board is electrically connected to circuitry of said processing circuit board via a flexible electrical connector; wherein, with said imager assembly attached at said upper housing portion of said camera housing, said lens holder is disposed at an aperture through said upper housing portion of said camera housing; and wherein, with said camera module mounted at the receiving structure at the interior surface of the vehicle windshield, said imager assembly views forward of the equipped vehicle and through the vehicle windshield.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05769
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15238004', '15334366', '15988029', '15416220', '15478274']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6653044331776261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5057276010603544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6493467499658989
- Mean Citation Score: 287.586906
- Max Citation Score: 305.45813
- Similarity Product: 258.0097703906524

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