PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753985
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["396", "533000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a camera housing/lens system comprising a camera housing for a camera and a lens. The camera housing/lens system further comprises a lock for locking the lens in position. According to the invention, the lock includes a stop member joined to the lens or the lens mount, and an elastic element arranged between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens, wherein the elastic element is compressed between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens to lock the lens in position. A gap remains between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens. This “elastic compression” allows the position of the lens to be finely adjusted in relation to the lens mount, without having to release the compression in order to do so.

Claim (Index 32):
A method for setting and locking the position of a lens in a camera housing/lens system comprising a camera housing for a camera and the lens having a longitudinal lens axis, wherein the camera housing is provided with a lens mount for attaching the lens, the lens mount including a connecting thread and the lens including a lens thread, wherein said connecting thread and said lens thread engage when the lens is attached, whereby a position of the lens along the longitudinal lens axis in relation to the lens mount can be set by turning the lens relative to the lens mount, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a lock for locking the lens in position, wherein the lock includes a stop member formed on the lens mount or a counter member having a counter-member thread that engages in the lens thread or in the connecting thread; providing an elastic element arranged between the counter member and the lens mount or between the stop member or counter member and the lens; and turning the lens relative to the stop or counter member to compress the elastic element between the stop or counter member and the lens mount or between the stop or counter member and the lens in order to lock the lens in position, wherein a gap remains between the stop or counter member and the lens or between the stop or counter member and the lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80702
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14418450', '14997002', '15353201', '15561054', '13302922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6826238990189709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798510607381152
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6623466151908854
- Mean Citation Score: 152.28235
- Max Citation Score: 157.30973999999995
- Similarity Product: 105.72338614780422

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

Dataset: test