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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. 02, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yifal J Shaham, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Michael Y Pines, Los Angeles, CA (US);
N John Koda, Vista, CA (US);
Daniel F Murphy, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; G01J / ; B44C / ; B29C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250332 ; 156633 ; 156643 ; 156651 ; 156656 ; 1566591 ; 156668 ; 156902 ; 250338 ; 250349 ; 437-3 ; 437180 ;
Abstract
A pyroelectric focal plane array useful for thermal imaging applications comprises a detector (10), comprises a reticulated and aluminized pyroelectric chip (12) interfaced with a signal processor chip (14) by thermally insulating bumps (30) coated with a thin conductive layer (38) to form a plurality of thermally insulative and electronically conductive interconnections (16) between detector chips (12) and processor chip (14).