Collision sensor
CA 2039799 C · Owner: Gray, Floyd Lee · Inventors: Boomgaarden, Jonathan Carl; Hamers, Timothy Francis; Filtz, Duane Anthony
Overview
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A collision sensor specially adapted for a power driven x-ray imaging apparatus includes a face collision sensor and an edge collision sensor. The face collision sensor has two annular plates which are biased apart longitudinally by three flat springs which are equiangularly spaced apart around the perimeter of the plates. Three equiangularly spaced cables hold the plates in parallel planes with the springs prestressed and collapse to allow the plates to be compressed together. Two sets of three switches each reside at equal angular intervals between the plates, with at least one of the switches of the first set being actuated when any point across the face of the sensor has been moved a …
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- Filed April 4, 1991 and granted June 18, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 4, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 4, 2013.
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