PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16396856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular camera module includes a housing that houses an imager assembly and a main circuit board. The imager assembly includes an imager on an imager circuit board, a lens barrel, a lens holder and a flexible ribbon cable extending from the imager circuit board. The main circuit board has first circuitry disposed at a first planar side and second circuitry disposed at a second planar side. An electrical connector at the second planar side connects with an electrical connector of the flexible ribbon cable. The main circuit board is accommodated within front and rear portions of the housing, while the imager is accommodated within the rear portion and is not accommodated within the front portion. The imager views to exterior of the housing via an opening of the upper cover at the rear portion of the housing, and the lens barrel extends through the opening.

Claim (Index 62):
A camera module for a vehicle, said camera module comprising:\n a housing that houses an imager assembly and a main circuit board; wherein the imager assembly comprises (i) an imager disposed on an imager circuit board, (ii) a lens barrel accommodating at least one lens, (iii) a lens holder, and (iv) a flexible ribbon cable extending from the imager circuit board, said flexible ribbon cable terminating at a terminator portion; wherein said housing comprises an upper cover and a lower cover, and wherein the upper cover and the lower cover are joined together; wherein said terminator portion of said flexible ribbon cable comprises a first electrical connector; wherein said main circuit board comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first planar side and an opposing second planar side separated from the first planar side by a thickness dimension of the PCB of said main circuit board; wherein circuitry disposed at the PCB of said main circuit board comprises (i) first circuitry disposed at the first planar side of the PCB of said main circuit board and (ii) second circuitry disposed at the second planar side of the PCB of said main circuit board; wherein circuitry disposed at the PCB of said main circuit board comprises an image processor; wherein said image processor is operable for processing image data captured by the imager; wherein the PCB of said main circuit board comprises a second electrical connector, and wherein said second electrical connector of the PCB of said main circuit board is configured for connecting with said first electrical connector at the terminator portion of said flexible ribbon cable; wherein said first electrical connector at the terminator portion of said flexible ribbon cable electrically connects with said second electrical connector of the PCB of said main circuit board; wherein, with the imager assembly operated to capture image data and with said first electrical connector at the terminator portion of said flexible ribbon cable connected with said second electrical connector of the PCB of said main circuit board, image data captured by the imager of the imager assembly is provided via said flexible ribbon cable to circuitry disposed at the PCB of said main circuit board; wherein said housing, with said upper cover and said lower cover joined together, comprises a front portion and a rear portion; wherein said front portion is in front of said rear portion; wherein said main circuit board is accommodated within said front and rear portions; wherein the imager is accommodated within said rear portion and is not accommodated within said front portion of said housing; wherein the imager assembly is attached at an inner surface of the upper cover at said rear portion of said housing; wherein said housing of said camera module has breadth and length, and wherein the PCB of said main circuit board extends across the breadth of said housing and along the length of said housing; wherein said rear portion of said housing has height; wherein said front portion of said housing has height; wherein the maximum height dimension of said rear portion of said housing is greater than the maximum height dimension of said front portion of said housing; wherein the breadth of said housing has a maximum dimension of 100 mm or less; wherein the length of said housing has a maximum dimension of 100 mm or less; wherein the height of said rear portion of said housing has a maximum dimension of 35 mm or less; wherein the upper cover at said rear portion of said housing comprises an opening, and wherein the imager views to exterior of said housing via said opening; wherein the lens barrel extends through said opening to protrude outside said housing; and wherein the first circuitry disposed at the first planar side of the PCB of said main circuit board comprises an electrical socket connector configured for electrical connection to a plug connector of a vehicular wire harness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 251.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16042042', '15871173', '14377939', '16283920', '14242038']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7006507292224078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6239672317796724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6929823794781342
- Mean Citation Score: 455.4069
- Max Citation Score: 578.6519
- Similarity Product: 552.2042926769018

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