Device having a casing and/or interior acting as a communication bus between electronic components

• US 8,414,198 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2010
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omnitek Partners LLC
• Original Assignee: Omnitek Partners LLC
• Inventors: Rastegar, Jahangir S., Spinelli, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): PEACE, RHONDA S
• Application Number:
  US12/889,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20110076029A1
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: 385/92, 385/94, 385/147, 398/141, 398/142, 398/153
• US Class Current: 385/92
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4201 Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/424 Mounting of the optical light guide
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4245 Mounting of the opto-electronic elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4246 Bidirectionally operating package structures
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4248 Feed-through connections for the hermetical passage of fibres through a package wall see provisionally also G02B6/4428
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4253 by embedding housing components in an adhesive or a polymer material G02B6/4212 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4298 coupling with non-coherent light sources and/or radiation detectors, e.g. lamps, incandescent bulbs, scintillation chambers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/18 Packaging or power distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/182 with special features, e.g. for use in industrial environments; grounding or shielding against radio frequency interference [RFI] or electromagnetical interference [EMI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/40 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components

Abstract

A device other than a projectile including: a casing, at least a portion of which contains a potting material acting as the optical waveguide material; a transmitter for transmitting a pulse based signal at least partially through the potting material; and a receiver for receiving the pulse based signal after one or more reflections of the pulse based signal from interior surfaces of the casing; the pulse based signal having a pulse rate configured such that a subsequent pulse doesn'"'"'t interfere with reflections from an immediately previous pulse.

Claims

1. A device other than a projectile, the device comprising:

a casing, at least a portion of which contains a potting material acting as the optical waveguide material;

a transmitter for transmitting a pulse based signal at least partially through the potting material; and

a receiver for receiving the pulse based signal after one or more reflections of the pulse based signal from interior surfaces of the casing;

the pulse based signal having a pulse rate configured such that a subsequent pulse doesn'"'"'t interfere with reflections from an immediately previous pulse.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the potting material is selected from a group consisting of a solid, a gel, and a liquid.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the potting material is the solid and the solid is an epoxy resin.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the signal is an infrared signal.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the casing includes a window through which an input signal is transmitted from an exterior of the casing to at least one of the potting material and receiver.

6. A method for transmitting signals between components in a device other than a projectile, the method comprising:

filling at least a portion of the device with a potting material acting as an optical waveguide material;

transmitting a pulse based signal at least partially through the potting material acting as the optical waveguide material;

reflecting the pulse based signal from interior surfaces of the device; and

receiving the pulse based signal after one or more reflections;

wherein the pulse based signal has a pulse rate configured such that a subsequent pulse doesn'"'"'t interfere with reflections from an immediately previous pulse.