PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16297790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A camera module for a vehicular vision system includes a metal front housing, a lens holder and a metal rear housing. The front housing houses a printed circuit board having an imager disposed thereat. The lens holder is attached at a front portion of the housing so that a lens assembly is optically aligned with the imager. The rear housing attaches at a rear portion of the front housing and includes a connecting element for electrically connecting to circuitry at the printed circuit board when the rear housing is attached at the rear portion of the front housing. An outer portion of the connecting element is disposed in a connector portion of the rear housing so as to be electrically connectable to electrically conductive elements of a vehicle connector when the camera module is disposed at the vehicle and the vehicle connector is connected to the connector portion.

Claim (Index 27):
A camera module for a vehicular vision system, wherein said camera module is configured to be disposed at a vehicle, said camera module comprising:\n a metal front housing that houses a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board in a cavity of said metal front housing, wherein said metal front housing comprises a front portion and a rear portion opposite said front portion, and wherein said rear portion comprises an opening to the cavity of said metal front housing; wherein circuitry of said first printed circuit board is electrically connected to circuitry of said second printed circuit board; wherein said first printed circuit board has a front side and a rear side opposite the front side, and wherein an imager is disposed at the front side of said first printed circuit board; wherein said second printed circuit board has a front side and a rear side opposite the front side, and wherein an electrical connector is disposed at the rear side of said second printed circuit board; wherein the rear side of said first printed circuit board faces toward the front side of said second printed circuit board; a thermally conductive material disposed between said first printed circuit board and said second printed circuit board disposed in the cavity of said metal front housing so as to contact said first printed circuit board, said second printed circuit board and said metal front housing to enhance heat transfer from said first printed circuit board and said second printed circuit board to said metal front housing during operation of said camera module, and wherein said thermally conductive material comprises a non-electrically conductive material; a lens holder comprising a lens, wherein said lens holder is attached at a front portion of said metal front housing so that the lens is optically aligned with said imager at the front side of said first printed circuit board; a metal rear housing; wherein said metal rear housing is attached at said rear portion of said metal front housing; wherein said metal rear housing comprises a metal rear cover that closes over said opening at said rear portion of said metal front housing; a connector portion disposed at said metal rear housing; wherein said connector portion comprises a coaxial connecting element; wherein an inner portion of said coaxial connecting element extends inward into the cavity of said metal front housing, and wherein said inner portion of said coaxial connecting element electrically connects with the electrical connector at the rear side of said second printed circuit board when said metal rear housing is attached at said rear portion of said metal front housing; and wherein an outer portion of said coaxial connecting element extends outward from said metal rear housing, and wherein said outer portion of said coaxial connecting element and said connector portion are configured for connection to a vehicle electrical connector of a vehicle equipped with said camera module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65517
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15487459', '16186867', '15722145', '15467246', '15062524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6373603520105697
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5180323507105182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6254275518805645
- Mean Citation Score: 267.933222
- Max Citation Score: 306.16348
- Similarity Product: 246.0448930303764

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