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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175462 | Fiber optic transceiver (FOT) module and method for manufacturing an FOT module A fiber optic transceiver (FOT) module is provided that has a circuit board attached to the FOT leadframe. The circuit board, which is typically a printed circuit board (PCB), provides several advantages over typical FOT module designs in that it provides additional... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8134087 | Electronic or optoelectronic assembly with an electromagnetic screening structure, method for manufacturing same The invention relates to an electromagnetic screening structure on or in a non-conductive carrier material in which non-conductive metal compounds are placed. The screening structure comprises a flat metal seed layer formed on or in the carrier material, which is fo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8100588 | Small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver module and method A small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver module and method for performing optical communications are provided. The SFP optical transceiver module has a housing to which a duplex receptacle is secured. The duplex receptacle has a C-shaped opening, the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098437 | Lens device having protective elements A lens device has a body with a base surface, a plurality of lenses on the base surface, and a plurality of projections extending above the base surface and defining a protective plane above the plurality of lenses. The plurality of projections can include, for exam... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086111 | Apparatus and method for controlling the optical output power of a laser in an optical transmitter (TX) A semi-open feedback loop optical output power control apparatus and method are provided for use in an optical TX. The apparatus and method enable input data signals having content frequencies that are below the cutoff frequency of the optical output power monitorin... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8047856 | Array connector for optical transceiver module A connector having a Ball-Grid Array on one side of a connector circuit board and a socket recess on the other side of the connector circuit board can be used to mate an opto-electronic transceiver module to a system circuit board. A base portion of the transceiver ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041160 | Optical communications device having a mounting core and method A parallel optical communications device is provided that has a mounting core that functions as a mounting system for mounting core components of the parallel optical communications device. In addition, the mounting core functions as a heat dissipation system for th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035973 | Cage having a heat sink device secured thereto in a floating arrangement that ensures that continuous contact is maintained between the heat sink device and a parallel optical communications device secured to the cage A floating heat sink device is provided that attaches to a cage in a floating configuration that enables the heat sink device to move, or “float”, as the parallel optical communications device secured to the cage moves relative to the cage. Because the heat sink... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019233 | Method and apparatus for using a hologram to control the optical field distribution of light generated by a light source and launched into an end of an optical waveguide A diffractive coupling element based on a computer-generated hologram is used in an optical coupling system of a transmitter to control the launch of laser light from a laser light source onto an end of an optical fiber. The diffractive coupling element controls the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019226 | Optical transceiver module having a latching bail mechanism that uses a cam lock configuration An optical transceiver module is provided that has a pivoting bail latching mechanism that is extremely stiff and locks via a cam locking configuration rather than relying on spring-loading forces to bias the latching mechanism to and maintain the latching mechanism... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7978981 | Structure and apparatus for a very short haul, free space, and fiber optic interconnect and data link A low cost, high speed, short haul, optic interconnect and data link which employs an array of vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays through which several optical signals are simultaneously transmitted through collimating optics that generate multipl... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7963705 | Molded interconnect device (MID) optical connector with metal retaining clip A molded interconnect device (MID) optical connector includes a molded plastic body and a metal retaining clip. The body has a receptacle portion shaped to receive and guide a mating optical fiber ferrule into a connected position. In the connected position, the end... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7955904 | Lens support and wirebond protector A wirebond protector has an elongated shape that corresponds to the elongated array of wirebonds along the edge of a microelectronic device that connect a semiconductor die to electrical conductors on a substrate. In making the microelectronic device with wirebond p... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953320 | Systems and methods for determining an AC/DC cross-calibration coefficient A first signal shaper generates a first signal having a first asymmetry. A second signal shaper generates a second signal having a second asymmetry different from the first asymmetry. The first and second signals have approximately the same peak-to-peak amplitude. A... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7904265 | Circuits and methods for calibrating a delay element A controllable delay element is coupled in parallel with a calibration circuit. The calibration circuit receives a periodic reference signal and generates a series of sample voltages responsive to a time-varying analog voltage, the periodic reference signal, and the... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899098 | Monitoring method and device for monitoring a forward voltage of a laser diode in a laser diode driver integrated circuit (IC) A laser diode driver IC of a transmitter or transceiver is provided with circuitry for monitoring the forward voltage of the laser diode or laser diodes of the transmitter or transceiver to enable the health of the laser diode or diodes to be assessed in real-time. | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890688 | Method and apparatus for providing a high-speed communications link between a portable device and a docking station A docking station is provided with a SerDes component, one or more peripheral device I/O ports, and at least one high-speed serial I/O port for interfacing the docking station with a high-speed serial communications link. A portable device that can be docked on the ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7872325 | Reduced-crosstalk wirebonding in an optical communication system Wirebonds are formed to couple an opto-electronic device chip having two or more opto-electronic devices to a signal processing chip. Two or more mutually adjacent wirebond groups, each corresponding to one of the opto-electronic devices, are formed. For example, ea... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872212 | Use of mesa structures for supporting heaters on an integrated circuit An integrated circuit is joined to a liquid container. The integrated circuit includes a passivation layer. A resistor is used as a heater to heat fluid in a liquid container. A mesa structure is formed over the passivation layer. The mesa structure is in contact wi... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870444 | System and method for measuring and correcting data lane skews A system and method for measuring and correcting data lane skews uses a predefined datum within data streams transmitted on different data lanes to determine the fastest data lane and to compute relative data lane skew values for the data lanes with respect to the f... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7867792 | Method of providing electrical separation in integrated devices and related devices An integrated device includes two sections (A, B), such as a DFB laser (A) and an EAM modulator (B), having a semi-insulating (SI) separation region therebetween. The separation region (24) is of a material acting as a trap on electrons and configured to impe... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7841781 | Methods and apparatuses for providing a hermetic sealing system for an optical transceiver module In an optical transceiver module, the bottom surface of the lid is temporarily attached to the top surface of the submount assembly in a pre-alignment position prior to performing the solder flowing process in order to prevent the lid from shifting position during t... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7830936 | Calibration of laser systems A method for a laser system to compensate a variability of a signal converter in the laser system includes generating a temperature signal corresponding to a temperature of a laser and adjusting a signal of the signal converter based on at least the temperature sign... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7824113 | Small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver module and method A small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver module and method for performing optical communications are provided. The SFP optical transceiver module has a housing to which a duplex receptacle is secured. The duplex receptacle has a C-shaped opening, the ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7804867 | Apparatus for dissipating heat in electro-optical communications systems A laser mounted in a casing is driven by and mounted close to its driving circuit. To reduce the effect on the laser of heat generated by the driver circuit, the casing includes a passive heat sink element on which the driver circuit is mounted whereby heat generate... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798727 | Optical transceiver module and duplex fiber optic connector Various embodiments of duplex fiber optic connectors and optical transceiver modules are provided. One embodiment comprises an optical transceiver module comprising: an integrally-formed housing having a duplex front port with a pair of alignment holes for receiving... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792435 | Control device with a switchable bandwidth A control device with a switchable bandwidth including: an integrating element with a first capacitance, which is charged and discharged by at least one current; at least one second capacitance, which can be connected in parallel with the first capacitance via a fir... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792426 | Method and device for operating an optical transmitting device having a plurality of optical transmitters that can be driven independently The invention relates to a method and a device for operating an optical transmitting device having a plurality of optical transmitters that can be driven independently. The method includes detecting the parameter values of the individual transmitters, comparing the ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7786739 | Identification of board connections for differential receivers Embodiments of the invention include testing arrangements for detecting proper DC-coupled board connections on the input legs of a differential receiver. The testing implementation includes a first test receiver AC-coupled to the connection between the first input/o... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7785924 | Method for making semiconductor chips having coated portions A method for making semiconductor chips having coated portions can include mounting the chips in lead frames, stacking the lead frames in an orientation in which a portion of one lead frame masks a portion of a chip mounted on another lead frame but leaves another p... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782550 | Lens structure, optical transmitter, and method for producing same In one embodiment, a lens structure has an object surface, an image surface, and an axicon mirror. The axicon mirror is defined by an inner diameter, an outer diameter, and a tilt angle, with the tilt angle being defined by a plane of the axicon mirror and the surfa... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7780302 | Method of forming and mounting an angled reflector In a method of forming a device so as to include a reflective surface at a specific angle to an incident optical axis, a region of a first major surface of a substrate is exposed to an anisotropic etchant to form a surface having the specific angle with respect to t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7764853 | Passive alignment using elastic averaging in optoelectronics applications In an optoelectronic assembly in which one or more beam paths are to be aligned with a corresponding number of active optical elements, the cooperation between flexible alignment features and fixed alignment features achieves elastic averaging so as to provide the t... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7750356 | Silicon optical package with 45 degree turning mirror An optical package includes a sub-mount, an edge-emitting laser mounted on the sub-mount, a collimating ball lens mounted on the sub-mount adjacent to the edge-emitting laser, a mirror mounted on the sub-mount adjacent to the collimating ball lens. The sub-mount is ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747174 | Multi-channel fabry-perot laser transmitters and methods of generating multiple modulated optical signals Multi-channel Fabry-Perot laser transmitters and methods of generating multiple modulated optical signals are described. In one aspect, an optical transmitter includes a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser, an optical isolator, an optical splitter, and multiple electroabsorption... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738517 | Small form factor transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) having functionality for controlling the temperature, and methods of making and using the TOSA The invention is directed to an OSA having a TO-can-type configuration that is relatively low-cost to manufacture and that has functionality for monitoring and controlling the temperature of the laser diode without the need for additional pins or an increase in the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734189 | Parallel channel optical communication using modulator array and shared laser An optical transmitter includes a drive laser, a 1×N splitter, and an array of modulators. The 1×N splitter is coupled to split a beam from the drive laser into separated beams, and the modulators modulate the respective beam to represent respective data signals t... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7731433 | Optoelectronic surface-mounted device and method for forming an optoelectronic surface-mounted device An optoelectronic surface-mounted device is provided comprising a premolded casing having a first cavity and a second cavity and a leadframe to which a first electrooptical element and a second electrooptical element are mounted. The leadframe is embedded in the pre... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7719768 | Optical beam splitter apparatus An optical beam splitter arrangement comprising two beam splitter mounts one of which is turnable relative to the other by flexing a deformable connection. By controlling the turn angle of rotation it is possible to use the light reflected by one of the beam splitte... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715669 | Fiber optic link, a transceiver for use in the link, and methods for designing and constructing fiber optic links and transceivers A fiber optic link is provided that uses a relatively low-cost transceiver that incorporates relatively inexpensive low bandwidth optical and electrical components to achieve high data rate operations. The data rate of the fiber optic link can be greater than the da... | 05/11/2010 |
