PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "373000"]

Abstract:
A method of assembling a camera for mounting at a vehicle for a vehicle vision system includes providing front and rear housings and providing a set of first electrical connectors at a circuit board of the front housing and providing a set of second electrical connectors at the rear housing. One of the first and second electrical connectors includes male connectors and the other of the first and second electrical connectors includes female connectors. The rear housing is mated with the front housing to encase an imaging element and the circuit board. When mating the rear housing with the front housing, the male connectors are inserted into respective female connectors to electrically conductively connect the first and second electrical connectors. When inserting the male connectors into the respective female connectors, the female connectors flex to accommodate misalignment of the male and female connectors.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of assembling a camera for mounting at a vehicle for a vehicle vision system, said method comprising:\n providing a front housing having a lens, an imaging element and a circuit board; providing a rear housing; providing a set of first electrical connectors at the circuit board; providing a set of second electrical connectors at the rear housing, wherein the set of second electrical connectors is configured to electrically connect to an electrical connector of a vehicle wire harness when the assembled camera is mounted at the vehicle; wherein one of the sets of first and second electrical connectors comprises a set of male connectors and the other of the sets of first and second electrical connectors comprises a set of female connectors; providing a connector housing at the female connectors, wherein the connector housing includes a plurality of chambers, and wherein each chamber holds a respective one of the female connectors, and wherein each chamber is defined by a chamber wall that separates the respective chamber from the other chambers; mating the rear housing with the front housing to encase the imaging element and the circuit board; when mating the rear housing with the front housing, inserting the male connectors into respective female connectors and clamping the male connectors therein via jaw structure of the respective female connectors to electrically conductively connect the first and second electrical connectors; when inserting the male connectors into the respective female connectors, the female connectors flex to accommodate misalignment of the male and female connectors; and wherein inserting the male connectors into the respective female connectors comprises inserting the male connectors until a stop element at at least one respective female connector limits movement of the male connector or the female connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14992254', '14001272', '13148148', '15161706', '15180644']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6463309518122068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227244108366645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6339702977146526
- Mean Citation Score: 267.761034
- Max Citation Score: 346.2019
- Similarity Product: 279.23208162971736

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