PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "071000"]

Abstract:
A pop-up external lens washing system has an extendable aiming fixture configured to aim a lens cleaning spray at an external lens which is exposed to the elements and apt to become soiled with debris. The extendable nozzle assembly is configured to be aimed toward the external lens by the extended aiming fixture during the washing operation only and has at least one laterally offset washing nozzle projecting from the aiming fixture to a spray washing fluid toward the external lens surface, spraying at a shallow, glancing spray aiming angle to impinge upon and wash the lens external surface.

Claim (Index 22):
A nozzle assembly for a vehicle's external image sensor washing system, comprising:\n an extendable aiming fixture having a distal end and a proximal end and said distal end being configured to translate between a retracted position and an extended position and to aim a spray at an external lens for an image sensor in the extended position; said external lens having and an external lens surface with a lens perimeter and a lens central axis projecting aligned distally from said lens surface; a laterally offset washing nozzle supported by said extendable aiming fixture and configured to be aimed toward said external lens when said aiming fixture is in the extended position; said laterally offset washing nozzle in fluid communication with a fluid inlet, said laterally offset washing nozzle being configured to spray washing fluid toward said external lens surface aimed across said lens central axis when said aiming fixture is in the extended position; a distal cover configured to substantially conceal the extendable aiming fixture in the retracted position; and wherein said laterally offset washing nozzle is configured to retract to said retracted position out of a field of view of said external lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80702
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14086746', '14004269', '14320734', '15303329', '15304428']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.745050840119826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6002302430823004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7305687804160734
- Mean Citation Score: 476.538572
- Max Citation Score: 541.7032
- Similarity Product: 464.6982256285192

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