PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878446
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A camera assembly for a vehicular vision system includes a housing that accommodates a lens and a circuit board. An imager is disposed at the circuit board and optically aligned with the lens, and circuitry is disposed at the circuit board and electrically connected with the imager. The housing includes a rear housing portion that has an aperture therethrough, with the aperture aligned with an electrical connecting element of the circuit board. A bracket includes a mounting portion configured to attach at the vehicle and at the rear housing portion. With an electrical connector electrically connected to the electrical connecting element of the circuit board, the bracket is attached at the rea housing portion, and a structural element of the electrical connector is clamped between the bracket and the rear housing portion to maintain electrical connection of the electrical connector with the electrical connecting element of the circuit board.

Claim (Index 15):
A camera assembly for a vision system for a vehicle, said camera assembly comprising:\n a housing that accommodates a lens and a circuit board, wherein said housing comprises a front housing portion and a rear housing portion, and wherein said front housing portion accommodates said lens; wherein said circuit board has a first side and a second side separated by a thickness of said circuit board, wherein an imager is disposed at said first side of said circuit board and is optically aligned with said lens, and wherein circuitry is disposed at said second side of said circuit board and electrically connected with said imager, and wherein said circuitry comprises an electrical connecting element at said second side of said circuit board; wherein said rear housing portion has an aperture therethrough, and wherein said aperture is aligned with said electrical connecting element of said circuit board; an electrical connector for electrically connecting a wire harness of the vehicle to said electrical connecting element of said circuit board, wherein said electrical connector comprises a first connecting end for electrically connecting to the wire harness of the vehicle and a second connecting end for electrically connecting to said electrical connecting element of said circuit board, and wherein said second connecting end protrudes from a structural element of said electrical connector; wherein said structural element of said electrical connector is disposed at said rear housing portion with said second connecting end protruding through said aperture of said rear housing portion to electrically connect to said electrical connecting element of said circuit board; a bracket comprising a mounting portion configured to attach at a vehicle, wherein said bracket is configured to attach at said rear housing portion; wherein, with said second connecting end electrically connected to said electrical connecting element of said circuit board, said bracket is attached at said rear housing portion, and wherein said structural element of said electrical connector is clamped between at least a portion of said bracket and said rear housing portion to maintain electrical connection of said second connecting end of said electrical connector with said electrical connecting element of said circuit board; a sealing element disposed at said rear housing portion and circumscribing said aperture to seal against said rear housing portion and said structural element when said bracket is attached at said rear housing portion; and wherein said aperture of said rear housing portion has a cross dimension that is larger than a cross dimension of said second connecting end of said electrical connector to allow for lateral adjustment of said second connecting end relative to said electrical connecting element during assembly of said camera assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82143
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341047', '15062524', '15487459', '15871173', '15478274']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6147103519817732
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5620140441511473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6094407211987105
- Mean Citation Score: 241.43947000000003
- Max Citation Score: 299.16006
- Similarity Product: 288.8204211665082

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