Abstract:
An optical scanning assembly detects positions of wafer specimens stored in a transport box. The scanning assembly includes first and second spaced-apart optical component mounts operatively connected to a deployment mechanism that moves them between extended and retracted positions. The extended positions facilitate specimen scanning operation, and the retracted positions facilitate carrier box front side access during specimen non-scanning processing. A preferred embodiment is a scanning assembly of a differential optical type.
Abstract:
A sensor assembly includes a housing and a plurality of lenses. The lenses are connected with a lens carrier by a plurality of releasable connector elements. A circuit board is disposed on the lens carrier. The circuit board has a black coating. A connector assembly connects the circuit board with an electrical conductor. The connector assembly includes a body portion and a flange portion. The flange portion engages a recess in the sensor housing to hold the body portion of the connector assembly against axial movement relative to the sensor housing. A retainer extends from a cover portion of the sensor housing into engagement with the flange portion of a connector assembly to hold the flange portion against rotation to thereby block unauthorized access to the interior of the sensor housing. A light detector is movable relative to a light source to enable the distance from the light source to a location from which reflected light is received by the detector to be adjusted.
Abstract:
A line scan camera comprises a printed circuit board upon which a charge-coupled device (CCD) is mounted. A lens component is fixed within a lens mount, and the base of the lens mount is adjustably mounted upon an optical bench. Calibration devices adjustably interconnect the lens mount to the printed circuit board and to the optical bench so as to calibrate the positional location of the lens component relative to the charge-coupled device (CCD) and to an object plane past which objects to be scanned and photographed are conveyed. In this manner, the focus distance defined between the lens component and the charge-coupled device (CCD) as well as the focal distance defined between the lens component and the object plane are fixed and do not need any further calibration. The object plane is defined upon the front surface of a sealed housing enclosure and all of the components are disposed within the housing enclosure so as to prevent dust and contaminants from collecting upon the optical components. LED arrays are disposed within the front of the housing so as to illuminate and properly expose the objects conveyed past the object plane. A positive pressure differential is also created within the sealed housing enclosure so as to prevent the ingress of dust and contaminants into the housing enclosure.
Abstract:
A self contained sensing apparatus includes a housing establishing an interior compartment, the housing having a maximum thickness which is less than the size of an access portal for inserting the housing into an area for sensing. The housing includes a window extending through a principal housing surface. A sensor is provided within the housing and generally aligned with the window for sensing at least one parameter. In a preferred embodiment, the sensor is an optical sensor for sensing images through the window. A transmitter is provided within the housing and coupled with the sensor for receiving signals representative of the sensed parameter and transmitting the signals out of the housing.
Abstract:
A peripheral computer enclosure includes a casing, a plurality of slots, a plurality of canisters being disposed in the slots, a plurality of storage devices, a plurality of canisters, a back plane, a power supply, a blower, a controller card and a personality board. The casing has an open front and a back. The slots are disposed inside the casing. The back plane is disposed in the casing. The power supply is disposed in the casing. The blower is disposed in the casing. Each storage device is disposed in one of the canisters. The back plane interconnects the storage devices. The personality board is connected to the back plane. The controller card is connected to the back plane.
Abstract:
A symmetric monitor calibrator for mounting on a cathode ray tube or monitor with a surface. The calibrator has a case that holds electronic and optic components. Suction cups hold the calibrator to the surface, in which the suction cups are attached to the end of supporting elements that surround the case. At least three supporting elements with a common connecting point to form one support structure are connected to the top of the case. The supporting elements extend out creating a greater diameter than the case. The supporting elements and therefore suction cups uniformly surround the center point of the case to prevent rotation caused by the effects of gravity.
Abstract:
An image sensor package mainly comprises a main body and an image sensor chip directly attached to a chip-supporting member integrally formed with the main body through an adhesive layer. The image sensor chip is electrically connected to a lead frame integrally formed with the main body. The main body has a wall erected around the image sensor chip with a height taller than the height of the image sensor chip. A optically transparent cover sealed over the top of the wall of the main body thereby allowing the image sensor chip to be exposed to the object to be sensed on an optical principle.
Abstract:
An injection-molded structure of an image sensor to be electrically connected to a printed circuit board. The image sensor includes metal sheets arranged in a matrix, a U-shaped injection molding structure encapsulating the metal sheets by way of injection molding, a photosensitive chip having a plurality of bonding pads, wires, and a transparent layer. Each metal sheet includes a first board. The injection molding structure has a first molded body, a second molded body, and a cavity. The first boards are exposed from the injection molding structure to form signal input and output terminals, respectively. The chip is arranged within the cavity. The wires electrically connect the bonding pads to the signal input terminals, respectively. The transparent layer is arranged on a top of the first molded body to cover over the chip. The invention also discloses a method for manufacturing the image sensor.
Abstract:
A new and improved line scan camera achieves the proper framing of the image field of view by using a first test card to calibrate the true bottom and leading edge portions of the test card which simulate the true bottom and leading portions of an article being scanned or photographed. Still further, the architecture of the electronic chip incorporated within the charge coupled device (CCD) of the camera effectively divides the linear array of pixels into a plurality of channels, and amplifier gain and black offset adjustments are made with respect to exposure levels, characteristic of the pixels disposed at the channel boundaries, under different degrees of input whiteness signals applied to a test card of a predetermined color shade, so as to achieve channel-to-channel seam matching. Subsequently, correction factors are effectively superimposed upon substantially all of the exposure levels characteristic of substantially all of the pixels comprising the line scan of the line scan camera such that true uniform exposure levels are in fact achieved.
Abstract:
In a photoelectric device-part, a bonding pad is formed without increasing a plane area of a concave part for housing a photoelectric device to implement miniaturization and improvement of the light usability efficiency. A light reflecting surface 3 of nearly a parabola configuration or the like provided for light emission and reception by a photoelectric device 5 is formed on a slanting curved surface constituting a concave part 2 of a circuit substrate 1. A convex portion 9a projecting from the light reflecting surface 3 and a receding concave portion 9b are formed in the middle of the concave part 2. A stage 9 is formed by an upper and bottom surfaces of the convex and concave portions 9a and 9b, respectively. A bonding pad 7 for connecting circuits of the photoelectric device 5 is formed at the stage 9. Since a space for the bonding pad 7 is provided by both concave and convex portions, deformation of the light reflecting surface 3 caused by the receding concave portion 9b and a ratio of intrusion to the bottom surface of the concave part by the projecting convex portion 9a can be both minimized. As a result, the photoelectric device 5 can be mounted without largely lowering light emission efficiency or without decentering the light emitting and receiving center, whereby a photoelectric device-part 10 can be miniaturized.