Abstract:
A Solid State Imaging Sensor Microassembly for miniature, remote head video cameras having small imaging sensor (10) and two circuits boards, top board (30) and bottom board (32). The imaging sensor of the type without a package and protected by the glass cover only, with leads (26) attached directly to the silicon chip (22). The sensor leads (26) bonded to opposite edges of the top board (30) placing the imager (10) in parallel alignment to the top board (30) some distance from it. Alternatively the packageless and leadless imaging sensor (12), bonded and connected to the top surface of the top circuit board (60) by the grid of small solder balls (66). Second circuit board (32) bonded perpendicularly and off center to the other side of top board (32) forming structure of an unsymmetrical capital T with one arm shorter than the other. In addition electronics components (34) are sandwiched between the imager (10) and top board (30) and still other components (38) are placed on one of the surfaces of the bottom board (32) which surface is facing away from the center of top board (30). Other surface of the bottom board (32) which is facing towards the center of the top board (30) has transmission cable conductors (36) attached.
Abstract:
A casing of a computer peripheral enclosure. The casing has at least one compartment. Each compartment is rectangular and has a cross-sectional area and a depth. Each compartment also has two guide rail guides. A canister for use with a storage device includes a u-shaped tray which is rectangular and has a cross-sectional area and a depth. The canister has two guide rails. The cross-sectional area and the depth of the canister are slightly less than the cross-sectional area and the depth of each compartment. The u-shaped tray also has two side walls and a two return lips so that the u-shaped tray is able to slide freely, but snugly, into the compartment of the casing. Each guide rail is mechanically coupled to one of the side walls of the u-shaped tray walls. The guide rails of each u-shaped tray slides freely, but snugly, into one of the compartments on the guide rail guides thereof.
Abstract:
In an electric member having a number of leads such as in a remote-controlled light receiving module, loosening prevention kinks created on at least one of the leads are shaped such that the shorter the distance from the loosening prevention kink to the tip of the lead the thinner the loosening prevention kink. When the electric member is mounted on a printed circuit board, the leads are inserted into wiring through-holes on the printed circuit board by pressing the electric member against the board, allowing the position and orientation of the electric member to be firmly fixed automatically by virtue of the loosening prevention kinks.
Abstract:
A holding head including a support portion, a suction nozzle which applies a negative pressure to a back surface of an object and thereby holds the object, the suction nozzle being detachably attached to the support portion, and a back-surface lighting device which lights the back surface of the object held by the suction nozzle and which includes a main portion which is separate from the suction nozzle and is supported by the support portion such that when the suction nozzle is detached from the support portion, the main portion remains supported by the support portion.
Abstract:
A vehicle interior rearview mirror assembly comprises a housing having a front end releasably attached to the interior surface of the vehicle windshield and a rear end having a ball and socket joint for a rearview mirror unit. An internal wall subdivides the interior of the housing into first and second compartments. The first compartment contains a rain sensor which is preferably biased into contact with the windshield, and the second compartment contains a further electrical component such as a compass sensor accessible through a side opening. A removable cover mates with the housing around the opening and extends along the windshield towards the vehicle header. Electrical leads for the rain sensor and the component are routed under the cover to the header.
Abstract:
A column switch that electrically connects a steering wheel side and a vehicle side in an automobile using a flexible flat cable (5). The cable (5) is in the form of a spiral and is accommodated in a housing. The housing includes a lower part defined by a base (1) of the column switch (8), and an upper part defined by a rotor (6) having a cancel cam (6e). The housing also has slits (6f) or reflectors formed thereon for a steering angle sensor (10). The base (1) has a hollow cylinder (1a) formed in the middle thereof through which a steering shaft is inserted. An annular groove (1f) that accommodates the flat cable (5) therein is formed to surround the hollow cylinder (1a). The rotor (6) has resilient fastening straps (6a) and an accommodating space (6d) that covers the annular groove (1f). The resilient fastening straps (6a) rotatably engage a fastening portion (1i) formed on the hollow cylinder (1a). With this construction, the base of the column switch and the housing of the rotary connector can be formed in one integral structure, thereby reducing the number of components and overall cost.
Abstract:
The optoelectronic receiver includes a device (12) for taking in or collecting optical signals, an optical sensor (16) for converting the optical signals into electronic signals; a coupling element (26) for alignment of the optic axis of the device for taking in or collecting the optical signals on a sensitive surface of the optical sensor, a holder (42) for the device (12) for taking in the optical signals; a retaining device (24) for the coupling element (26); and a joint adjusting means (28) for adjusting the holder (42) for the device for taking in the optical signals and the retaining device (24) for the coupling element. After adjustment using the joint adjusting means the holder and retaining device are fixed in position to form an aligned optoelectronic receiver. A method of making the aligned optoelectronic receiver is also described.
Abstract:
To provide an optical device in which fragments of a concave reflection mirror surrounding a discharge lamp and fragments of an optically permeable glass plate covering the aperture at the front of the concave reflection mirror do not fall and scatter, even if a short-arc high pressure discharge lamp that lights at extremely high mercury vapor pressure should rupture, the outer surface of the glass concave reflection mirror (20) surrounding the high pressure mercury discharge lamp (10) in which 0.16 mg/mm3 or more of mercury is sealed in a discharge envelope is covered by a scatter prevention film (40) made of a polymer material, for example, a fluorine-based resin. Furthermore, a scatter prevention film is applied to the outer surface of the concave reflection mirror in a region of incidence of light over a range within ±40° of the direction orthogonal to the axis of the high pressure mercury discharge lamp. Scatter prevention film is applied to the periphery of optically permeable glass plate (30).
Abstract translation:为了提供一种光学装置,其中包括放电灯的凹面反射镜的碎片和覆盖凹面反射镜前部的孔的透光性玻璃板的碎片不会下落和散射,即使短弧高压 在非常高的水银蒸气压下点亮的放电灯应破裂,其中密封0.16mg / mm 3或更多汞的高压汞放电灯(10)周围的玻璃凹面反射镜(20)的外表面被密封 在放电外壳中被由聚合物材料例如氟基树脂制成的防散射膜(40)覆盖。 此外,在与高压汞放电灯的轴正交的方向的±40°以内的范围内的入射区域中,将防散射膜施加到凹面反射镜的外表面。 将防散射膜用于透光性玻璃板(30)的周边。
Abstract:
An optical coupler that provides for the direct mounting of integrated circuit(s). The coupler includes a two-part housing with grooves for accommodating optical fibers that are held in place when the two parts are put together. Circuitry is formed on the housing and solder balls, when heated to a liquid state and cooled (reflowed), are used to attach integrated circuit(s) onto the housing. At least one of these integrated circuit(s) is an optical die that is positioned in close proximity to the optical fibers to provide for the receipt and/or transmission of optical signals. The reflowing of the solder balls forms an electrical connection between the circuitry on the housing and the integrated circuit(s) and provides for alignment of these components. The housing is attached to a circuitized substrate using reflowed solder balls or wirebonds.
Abstract:
In a vehicle-mounted image pickup device, when an image pickup device main body requiring waterproof is housed in a case member, the case member includes a translucent housing having window sections which serve as incident window regions; flaw-prevention translucent plates which are laminated on the window sections of the translucent housing so as to be located on the exterior surface side of the translucent housing; and an opaque layer formed in an area other than an area where there are disposed the flaw-prevention translucent plates.