Silicon microlens cleaning system
CA 2318787 A1 · Owner: Lee, Kim Y. · Inventors: Kim, Ho-Seob; Lee, Kim Y.; Chang, T.H. Phillip
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method and system for cleaning the silicon microlenses in an electron-beam microcolumn in situ. The microlenses individually are heated by passing a current through each microlens. The current is utilized to heat the microlens to at least two hundred degrees Centigrade to prevent contamination and occasionally to a temperature on the order of six to seven hundred degrees Centigrade to remove any builtup or potential contamination.
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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
- Filed October 29, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 29, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 29, 2021.
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