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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. 28, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard J. Pittaro, San Carlos, CA (US);
David Andrew King, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard D. Pering, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shahida Rana, Fremont, CA (US);
Frederick A. Stawitcke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Verdonk, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/500 ; G01N 2/175 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/500 ; G01N 2/175 ;
Abstract
A sensor array is bonded to or molded together with a micro-lens array to form a sensor cartridge. The micro-lenses of the micro-lens array are configured to focus light incident on the sensors, into the sensors. An alignment structure has a mating profile that receives and engages one or more micro-lenses from the micro-lens array to laterally align the cartridge to enable repeatable precise positioning of the cartridge.