PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002281
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "335000"]

Abstract:
The lens tube includes a cylindrical barrel, a holder, a cap, and a stress applying portion. The barrel houses at least one first lens. The holder houses an imaging element and is fixed to a substrate. The holder is configured to allow one end of the barrel in an axial direction to be screwed into the holder such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other. The cap is mountable to the barrel by allowing the other end of the barrel in the axial direction to be screwed into the cap. The stress applying portion is located between the holder and the cap when the barrel is screwed into the holder and the cap, and applies a stress in a direction in which the cap is separated from the holder. The first lens is held and fixed between a first stopper formed on the cap and a second stopper formed in the barrel when the cap is mounted to the barrel.

Claim (Index 11):
A front monitoring camera for a vehicle, the front monitoring camera comprising:\n a barrel that is formed in a cylindrical shape and houses at least one first lens; a holder that houses an imager and is fixed to a substrate in which the imager is arranged; and a cap that houses at least one second lens, wherein: the barrel and the holder are joined to each other at one end side of the barrel in an axial direction of the barrel such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other; the barrel and the cap are joined to each other at the other end side of the barrel in the axial direction; the cap includes a claw portion that is formed circumferentially toward an axis center of the cap; the second lens is sandwiched and fixed between the claw portion of the cap and a first spacer that is disposed on a cap side in the barrel; the second lens is not housed in the barrel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93651
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15821249', '14905717', '11319738', '13260400', '14905704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5910402507931501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5129010200979447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5832263277236296
- Mean Citation Score: 226.444
- Max Citation Score: 320.34088
- Similarity Product: 271.47147155789384

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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