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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 1984
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph L Lockard, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Assignee:
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H05B / ; H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
445 22 ; 2957 / ; 29588 ; 29841 ; 357 72 ; 362307 ;
Abstract
Light emitting diodes are mounted in an assembly of electrical leads and lenses, the leads having a common carrier strip attached thereto and pairs of resilient contact fingers, the diodes being resiliently gripped between pairs of contact fingers and then encapsulated in a light transmitting material which itself forms a diffusing lens; a separate lens alternatively being provided by a rigid outer shell of light transmitting material.