Optical component mounting
CA 1280876 C · Owner: Preston, Keith · Inventors: Preston, Keith
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Optical Component Mounting, An improved technique for mounting optical components on a substrate comprises providing each component with a dedicated heating element on the component itself to permit controlled and well-localised heating of solder on the substrate during fixing. In the example illustrated the optical component is an optical fibre carrier comprising fibre(10), carrier plate(12) and heating element(20), which itself comprises an ink film resistor(22) deposited on a ceramic chip(21) having metallised electrical contacts(23).
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted March 5, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 5, 2008.
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