PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988029
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "374000"]

Abstract:
A method of assembling a camera for a vehicular vision system includes providing a front housing portion, a rear housing portion and a circuit element having an imager disposed thereat. One of the front housing portion and the circuit element includes a protrusion protruding therefrom and the other of the front housing portion and the circuit element includes a receiving portion for at least partially receiving the protrusion when the circuit element is positioned at the front housing portion to align the imager with the lens. When the circuit element is positioned at the front housing portion to align the imager with the lens, the protrusion is at least partially received at the receiving portion and is attached thereat. A damper or retention feature is provided at an opposite side of the imager from the protrusion and receiving portion.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of assembling a camera for a vehicular vision system, said method comprising:\n providing a camera housing front portion; providing a camera housing rear portion; providing a circuit element having an imager disposed thereat, wherein the circuit element comprises a printed circuit board, and wherein the imager comprises an imaging array having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in multiple rows and multiple columns of photosensing elements, and wherein the imager has a first side and a second side laterally opposite the first side; wherein the circuit element comprises a protrusion protruding therefrom, and wherein the protrusion is laterally spaced from and adjacent to the first side of the imager; wherein the camera housing front portion comprises a receiving portion configured for receiving the protrusion; positioning the circuit element at the camera housing front portion; wherein positioning the circuit element at the camera housing front portion comprises at least partially receiving the protrusion at the receiving portion; adhesively bonding the protrusion at the receiving portion when the circuit element is positioned at the camera housing front portion with the protrusion at least partially received at the receiving portion; providing one of (i) a damper disposed between the circuit element and the camera housing front portion so as to be laterally spaced from and adjacent to the second side of the imager when the circuit element is positioned at the camera housing front portion with the protrusion at least partially received at the receiving portion, and (ii) a retention feature comprising (a) a notch at the circuit element laterally spaced from and adjacent to the second side of the imager and (b) a second protrusion at the front housing portion that engages the notch when the circuit element is positioned at the camera housing front portion with the protrusion at least partially received at the receiving portion; and mating the rear housing portion with the front housing portion to encase the circuit element and the imager.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68519
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15334366', '15062524', '15238004', '15899131', '15460662']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.636581489872206
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5175363310318022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6246769739881657
- Mean Citation Score: 239.312254
- Max Citation Score: 333.35266
- Similarity Product: 279.30070988661055

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