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US 12,000,547 B1Granted
Edge-mount light pipe
AssigneeAdtran, Inc.
InventorsAdam Keith Lands, Jon M. Chalmers
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Abstract
A light pipe device may have a substantially U-shaped base with first and second leg portions. One or more light pipes may extend from one or both of the leg portions. The light pipe device may be mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB) by clipping the U-shaped based onto an edge of the PCB.
Claims20
A light pipe device, comprising:
- a substantially U-shaped base having a central portion and first and second leg portions extending substantially parallel to each other from the central portion;
- and
- a first light pipe having a proximal end at the first leg portion, the first light pipe extending from the first leg portion away from a region between the first and second leg portions, the first light pipe having a distal end free of connection.
A method for mounting a light pipe device on an electronic assembly substrate, comprising:
- attaching a substantially U-shaped base of the light pipe device to an edge of the substrate, including positioning the substrate between first and second leg portions extending from a central portion of the U-shaped base, and including positioning a proximal end of a first light pipe extending from the first leg portion over a light source on the substrate.
An apparatus, comprising:
- means for attaching to an edge of a substrate;
- and
- means for transmitting light from a light source on the substrate proximate to the means for attaching to a location distant from the means for attaching.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.