PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16225080
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular camera module includes a housing and an imager assembly having an imager, an imager circuit board and a lens holder. The imager is disposed at the imager circuit board. The lens holder includes a lens holding portion and an attaching portion, with the lens holding portion accommodating a lens. The attaching portion of the lens holder includes a plurality of pins that, when the attaching portion is mated with the circuit board, are received at least partially through apertures of the imager circuit board. With the pins received at least partially through the apertures, and with the lens focused and optically aligned with the imager at the imager circuit board, the pins are soldered at the imager circuit board so as to fixedly attach the lens holder at the imager circuit board to form the imager assembly. The imager assembly is attached at the housing.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for assembling a camera module for a vehicular vision system, the camera module configured to mount at a receiving structure at an interior surface of a vehicle windshield of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system, said method comprising:\n providing a camera housing and a processing circuit board; providing an imager and an imager circuit board, wherein the imager circuit board has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; disposing the imager at the first surface of the imager circuit board; providing a lens holder and a lens, wherein the lens holder comprises a lens holding portion and an attaching portion, and wherein the attaching portion of the lens holder comprises a mating surface that faces away from the lens holding portion of the lens holder, and wherein the attaching portion comprises a plurality of pins extending from the mating surface of the attaching portion; accommodating the lens in the lens holding portion of the lens holder; locating the lens holder at the imager circuit board by inserting individual pins of the plurality of pins at least partially through respective apertures of the imager circuit board and mating the mating surface of the attaching portion of the lens holder with the first surface of the imager circuit board; with the pins received at least partially through the apertures of the imager circuit board, focusing and optically aligning the lens with the imager at the imager circuit board; with the pins received at least partially through the apertures of the imager circuit board, and with the lens focused and optically aligned with the imager at the imager circuit board, soldering the pins at the imager circuit board so as to fixedly attach the lens holder at the imager circuit board to form an imager assembly; accommodating the processing circuit board in the camera housing; and attaching the imager assembly at the camera housing and electrically connecting circuitry of the imager circuit board to circuitry of the processing circuit board via a flexible electrical connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05769
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15238004', '15334366', '15988029', '15416220', '15478274']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6652932504955057
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5058209647596549
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6493460219219206
- Mean Citation Score: 287.586906
- Max Citation Score: 305.45813
- Similarity Product: 257.4572327509606

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