Proximity detector
CA 2060397 A1 · Owner: Lee, Mark A. · Inventors: Lee, Mark A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A proximity detector for motor cars to aid, parking, has 3 infra-red transmitter units 10-1 to 10-3 producing a zone of radiation 36 and two receiver units 20-1 and 20-2 producing a zone 46 of sensitivity to the radiation. Each transmitter unit comprises 3 transmitter elements housed behind a common aperture (Fig. 3, not shown), and each receiver unit comprises 2 receiver elements housed behind a common aperture (Fig. 4 not shown), giving for each unit a polar diagram with at least two distinct directions of high magnitude, the axes of peak radiation or sensitivity from the elements of a unit being divergent through the aperture and forming the directions of high magnitude. Indicating means …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 30, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 30, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 30, 2014.
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