PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002281
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "335000"]

Abstract:
The lens tube includes a cylindrical barrel, a holder, a cap, and a stress applying portion. The barrel houses at least one first lens. The holder houses an imaging element and is fixed to a substrate. The holder is configured to allow one end of the barrel in an axial direction to be screwed into the holder such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other. The cap is mountable to the barrel by allowing the other end of the barrel in the axial direction to be screwed into the cap. The stress applying portion is located between the holder and the cap when the barrel is screwed into the holder and the cap, and applies a stress in a direction in which the cap is separated from the holder. The first lens is held and fixed between a first stopper formed on the cap and a second stopper formed in the barrel when the cap is mounted to the barrel.

Claim (Index 1):
A lens tube comprising:\n a barrel that houses at least one first lens; a holder that is fixed to a substrate in which an imager is arranged, the holder being mounted to one end of the barrel in an axial direction of the barrel such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imager are aligned with each other; and a cap that houses at least one second lens and is mounted to the other end of the barrel in the axial direction, wherein: the cap includes a claw portion that is formed by being bent and extending toward an axis of the cap; the claw portion is formed at an edge portion on one end of the cap opposite to the other end of the cap to which the barrel is mounted in an axial direction of the cap; a first spacer is arranged between the first lens and the second lens; the second lens, the first spacer, and the first lens are sandwiched and fixed between the claw portion and a second spacer disposed in the barrel in an axial direction of the cap and the barrel; and the second lens is not housed in the barrel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93651
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15821249', '14905717', '11319738', '13260400', '14905704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5914828894868476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5071295957452252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5830475601126853
- Mean Citation Score: 226.444
- Max Citation Score: 320.34088
- Similarity Product: 317.63553614172463

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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