PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16383995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "461000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular camera includes a front camera housing accommodating a lens and an imager, a rear camera housing, and a PCB. The PCB has first and second contacts that include respective first and second electrically conductive pads. A spring-loaded electrical connector is disposed at the rear camera housing and includes first and second terminals for connecting to respective ones of the first and second contacts at the PCB. As the rear camera housing is moved into engagement with the front camera housing, the terminals engage the contacts and compress towards a compressed state and, after the rear camera housing is attached at the front camera housing, are in spring-biased electrical connection with the contacts at the PCB. The electrical connector includes a connector end that is opposite the terminals and that is configured to electrically connect to a coaxial connector of a coaxial cable of a vehicle.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for assembling a vehicular camera, said method comprising:\n providing a front camera housing that accommodates a lens and an imager, wherein the lens comprises a plurality of optical elements; providing a rear camera housing; providing a printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board has a first electrical contact element and a second electrical contact element disposed thereat, and wherein the first and second electrical contact elements are established at the printed circuit board and are in electrical conductive continuity with respective electrically conductive traces of the printed circuit board, and wherein the second electrical contact element at least partially circumscribes the first electrical contact element; providing an electrical connector at a connector portion of the rear camera housing, wherein the electrical connector comprises a first terminal and a second terminal, and wherein the first terminal comprises a first contact surface at its end that is distal from the connector portion of the rear camera housing, and wherein the second terminal comprises a second contact surface at its end that is distal from the connector portion of the rear camera housing, and wherein the second terminal at least partially circumscribes the first terminal, and wherein the first and second terminals of the electrical connector are spring-biased towards an extended state, and wherein the first and second terminals of the electrical connector are compressible towards a compressed state; moving the rear camera housing toward engagement with the front camera housing; as the rear camera housing moves toward engagement with the front camera housing, (i) moving the first contact surface of the first terminal of the electrical connector toward and into contact with the first electrical contact element at the printed circuit board and (ii) moving the second contact surface of the second terminal of the electrical connector toward and into contact with the second electrical contact element at the printed circuit board; as the rear camera housing further moves into engagement with the front camera housing, compressing the first and second terminals of the electrical connector towards their compressed state and are in spring-biased electrical connection with the first and second electrical contact elements at the printed circuit board; attaching the rear camera housing at the front camera housing; with the rear camera housing attached at the front camera housing, and with the first and second contact surfaces of the first and second terminals in spring-biased electrical connection with the first and second electrical contact elements at the printed circuit board, maintaining electrical connection integrity via the spring-biased direct contact of the first and second contact surfaces to the first and second electrical contact elements without soldering at the printed circuit board; and wherein the electrical connector comprises a connector end that is opposite the first and second terminals and that is configured to electrically connect to a coaxial connector of a coaxial cable of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular camera.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15722145', '16297790', '15467246', '15487459', '15062524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7100795601288448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5142082603828595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6904924301542462
- Mean Citation Score: 261.57832599999995
- Max Citation Score: 302.93597
- Similarity Product: 261.3500794840384

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