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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:
Apr. 26, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jochen Heinen, Haar, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ; B32B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156234 ; 156250 ; 156285 ; 156297 ; 313499 ; 350 9618 ; 357 17 ; 437905 ;
Abstract
A light-emitting diode has a lens secured in self-adjusted fashion to a mesa surface of a semiconductor body by means of adhesive. The mesa surface is substantially perpendicular and centered with an emission axis of the light-emitting diode. Preferably, the lens is spherical and the mesa surface has a diameter comparable to or smaller than a diameter of the lens.