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 18):
A method for assembling a camera assembly for a vision system for a vehicle, said method comprising:\n providing a housing that comprises a front housing portion and a rear housing portion, wherein the front housing portion accommodates a lens; attaching the rear housing portion at the front housing portion to accommodate a circuit board in the housing; wherein the circuit board has a first side and a second side separated by a thickness of the circuit board, and wherein an imager is disposed at the first side of the circuit board and is optically aligned with the lens, and wherein circuitry is disposed at the second side of the circuit board and electrically connected with the imager, and wherein the circuitry comprises an electrical connecting element at the second side of the circuit board; wherein attaching the rear housing portion at the front housing portion includes aligning an aperture of the rear housing portion with the electrical connecting element of the circuit board; providing an electrical connector, wherein the 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 the electrical connecting element of the circuit board, and wherein the second connecting end protrudes from a structural element of the electrical connector; inserting the second connecting end through the aperture of the rear housing portion and electrically connecting the second connecting end to the electrical connecting element of the circuit board; providing a bracket comprising a mounting portion configured to attach at a vehicle; and with the second connecting end electrically connected to the electrical connecting element of the circuit board, attaching the bracket at the rear housing portion and clamping the structural element of the electrical connector between at least a portion of the bracket and the rear housing portion to maintain electrical connection of the second connecting end of the electrical connector with the electrical connecting element of the circuit board.

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): 0.6145225661211995
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.563308815598178
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6094011910688973
- Mean Citation Score: 241.43947000000003
- Max Citation Score: 299.16006
- Similarity Product: 281.8580004032778

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