PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878733
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["359", "267000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes providing an electro-optic reflective element and a back plate. First and second spring-loaded electrical connectors are disposed in respective passageways of the back plate. A circuit element is provided that has an electrically conductive trace electrically connected to control circuitry. The back plate is attached at the reflective element, and the circuit element is attached at the back plate. With the back plate attached at the reflective element and with the circuit element attached at the back plate, the spring-loaded electrical connectors are biased into electrical contact with a respective electrically conductive element at the reflective element and a respective electrically conductive trace at the circuit element to electrically connect the electrically conductive trace to the electrically conductive element.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of manufacturing a rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle, said method comprising:\n providing an electro-optic reflective element having a front substrate and a rear substrate and an electro-optic medium sandwiched therebetween, wherein the front substrate has a first surface and a second surface with a transparent electrically conductive coating at the second surface and in contact with the electro-optic medium, and wherein the rear substrate has a third surface and a fourth surface with an electrically conductive coating at the third surface and in contact with the electro-optic medium; establishing a first electrically conductive element at the fourth surface of the rear substrate that is in electrical connection with the transparent electrically conductive coating at the second surface of the front substrate; establishing a second electrically conductive element at the fourth surface of the rear substrate that is in electrical connection with the electrically conductive coating at the third surface of the rear substrate; providing a back plate, wherein the back plate has first and second passageways established therethrough; disposing a first spring-loaded electrical connector in the first passageway of the back plate; disposing a second spring-loaded electrical connector in the second passageway of the back plate; providing a circuit element having electro-optic control circuitry established thereat, wherein the circuit element has first and second electrically conductive traces in electrical connection with the electro-optic control circuitry; attaching the back plate at the reflective element; attaching the circuit element at the back plate; and wherein, with the back plate attached at the reflective element and with the circuit element attached at the back plate, (i) the first spring-loaded electrical connector is biased into electrical contact with the first electrically conductive element and is biased into electrical contact with the first electrically conductive trace to electrically connect the first electrically conductive trace to the first electrically conductive element and (ii) the second spring-loaded electrical connector is biased into electrical contact with the second electrically conductive element and is biased into electrical contact with the second electrically conductive trace to electrically connect the second electrically conductive trace to the second electrically conductive element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60377
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15051824', '15478273', '15722149', '15008489', '14257353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.824003113823234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007297939580374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7916757818367144
- Mean Citation Score: 275.429944
- Max Citation Score: 330.0929
- Similarity Product: 317.2423247492552

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