PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
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 is attached at an upper cover of the housing, with a flexible ribbon cable extending from an imager circuit board. The main circuit board has first circuitry disposed at a first planar side and second circuitry, including an image processor, 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. A mounting bracket mounts the camera module at the windshield of the vehicle, with the imager viewing through a portion of the windshield in a forward direction of travel of the vehicle.

Claim (Index 34):
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 and (ii) a lens assembly comprising a lens barrel accommodating at least one lens; wherein said housing comprises an upper cover and a lower cover, and wherein the upper cover and the lower cover are joined together; a flexible ribbon cable extending from the imager circuit board, said flexible ribbon cable terminating at a terminator portion; 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 first circuitry is disposed at the first planar side of the PCB of said main circuit board, and wherein second circuitry is disposed at the second planar side of the PCB of said main circuit board; wherein said second circuitry disposed at the second planar side of 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 at its second planar side comprises a second electrical connector, and wherein said second electrical connector at the second planar side 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, 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 at the second planar side 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 at least to said second circuitry disposed at the second planar side of 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 said housing of said camera module has a breadth and a 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 a height, and wherein the imager circuit board is disposed in the upper cover at said rear portion of said housing and is tilted at an acute angle with respect to the plane of the PCB of said main circuit board; 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 upper cover at said rear portion of said housing comprises an aperture, and wherein the imager views to exterior of said housing via said aperture; wherein the lens barrel extends through said aperture to protrude outside said housing; and wherein the lens barrel of the imager assembly is tilted at an acute angle upward relative to the plane of the PCB of said main circuit board.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 212.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15871173', '14377939', '14242038', '14705076', '15899131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6492454349851258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.596391195753268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6439600110619401
- Mean Citation Score: 393.907384
- Max Citation Score: 556.7752
- Similarity Product: 429.7638907358647

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