PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16383995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "461000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular camera includes a front camera housing accommodating a lens and an imager, a rear camera housing, and a PCB. The PCB has first and second contacts that include respective first and second electrically conductive pads. A spring-loaded electrical connector is disposed at the rear camera housing and includes first and second terminals for connecting to respective ones of the first and second contacts at the PCB. As the rear camera housing is moved into engagement with the front camera housing, the terminals engage the contacts and compress towards a compressed state and, after the rear camera housing is attached at the front camera housing, are in spring-biased electrical connection with the contacts at the PCB. The electrical connector includes a connector end that is opposite the terminals and that is configured to electrically connect to a coaxial connector of a coaxial cable of a vehicle.

Claim (Index 20):
A vehicular camera, said vehicular camera comprising:\n a front camera housing, said front camera housing accommodating a lens and an imager; wherein said lens comprises a plurality of optical elements; a rear camera housing; a printed circuit board; wherein said rear camera housing attaches at said front camera housing to enclose said printed circuit board within said vehicular camera with said lens optically aligned with said imager; wherein said printed circuit board has a first electrically conductive pad and a second electrically conductive pad, and wherein said first and second electrically conductive pads are established at a surface of said printed circuit board and are in electrical conductive continuity with respective electrically conductive traces of said printed circuit board, and wherein said second electrically conductive pad at least partially circumscribes said first electrically conductive pad; wherein said first and second electrically conductive pads comprise respective electrically conductive surfaces; an electrical connector disposed at a connector portion of said rear camera housing, wherein said electrical connector comprises a first terminal and a second terminal for connecting to respective ones of said first electrically conductive pad and said second electrically conductive pad at said printed circuit board, and wherein said first terminal comprises a first contact surface at its end that is distal from said connector portion of said rear camera housing, and wherein said second terminal comprises a second contact surface at its end that is distal from said connector portion of said rear camera housing; wherein said second terminal at least partially circumscribes said first terminal; wherein said first and second terminals of said electrical connector are spring-biased towards an extended state, and wherein said first and second terminals of said electrical connector are compressible towards a compressed state; wherein, as said rear camera housing is moved toward engagement with said front camera housing, (i) said first contact surface of said first terminal of said electrical connector moves toward and into contact with said first electrically conductive pad at said printed circuit board, and (ii) said second contact surface of said second terminal of said electrical connector moves toward and into contact with said second electrically conductive pad at said printed circuit board; wherein, as said rear camera housing is moved toward engagement with said front camera housing, said first and second contact surfaces of the respective ones of said first and second terminals of said electrical connector, with said first and second terminals in their extended state, engage the respective one of said first and second electrically conductive pads at said printed circuit board, and wherein, as said rear camera housing engages said front camera housing, said first and second terminals of said electrical connector compress towards their compressed state and, after said rear camera housing is attached at said front camera housing, are in spring-biased electrical connection with said first and second electrically conductive pads at said printed circuit board; wherein, with said rear camera housing attached at said front camera housing, and with said first and second contact surfaces of said first and second terminals in spring-biased electrical connection with said first and second electrically conductive pads at said printed circuit board, electrical connection integrity is maintained via the spring-biased direct contact of said first and second contact surfaces to said first and second electrically conductive pads without soldering at said printed circuit board; wherein said first and second electrically conductive pads are dimensioned to accommodate lateral tolerances to allow for lateral variations in electrical connection with said first and second terminals, respectively; wherein said electrical connector comprises a connector end that is opposite said first and second terminals and that is configured to electrically connect to a coaxial connector of a coaxial cable of a vehicle equipped with said vehicular camera; and wherein said electrical connector has a base portion that is secured relative to said connector portion of said rear camera housing via one selected from the group consisting of (i) said base portion being press-fit into said connector portion of said rear camera housing and (ii) said connector portion of said rear camera housing being overmolded over and at least partially along said base portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15722145', '16297790', '15467246', '15487459', '15062524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.710065085454716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5143329564483321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6904918725540776
- Mean Citation Score: 261.57832599999995
- Max Citation Score: 302.93597
- Similarity Product: 260.64452601034225

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test