Wireless enabled device
AssigneeMillipore Corporation
InventorsAaron Burke, Joseph William Muldoon
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Abstract
The invention described herein provides an embedded wireless device such as a RFID tag molded into separate housing formed of any thermoplastic material compatible to that of the plastic material as the device to which the housing is to be attached. Subsequently, the housed tag assembly can be thermally bonded onto the device through many means which are well known and accepted in the industry.
Claims9
1) A device for mounting a wireless electronic component to a surface comprising a thermoplastic housing having a first closed substantially planar inner surface and a first outer surface and at least one recess for holding the component;
- a wireless electronic component retained within the recess and an overmolded cover attached to the recess and housing so as to encapsulate the component and form a second outer surface of the housing;
- wherein either the first outer surface or the second outer surface of the housing has two or more spaced apart protrusions extending away from the outer surface.
5) A filter device comprising a filter cartridge formed of a porous core surrounded by one or more porous filter layers, an outer thermoplastic cage spaced from and surrounding the one or more filters layers, a top closed end cap formed over a first end of the cage, one or more filters layers and core, a second end cap having an opening in line with the core, the second end cap being formed over a second end of the cage, one or more filters layers and core and the cage having a series of inlets to an outer surface of the one or more filter layers and an outlet attached to opening of the second end cap all in a liquid tight manner and a device for mounting a wireless electronic component being bonded to the thermoplastic surface of the housing, the device for mounting a wireless electronic component being formed of a thermoplastic component housing having a first closed substantially planar inner surface and a first outer surface and at least one recess for holding the component;
- a wireless electronic component retained within the recess and an overmolded cover attached to the recess and component housing so as to encapsulate the component and form a second outer surface of the component housing;
- wherein a surface selected from the group consisting of the first outer surface and the second outer surface of the component housing has two or more spaced apart protrusions extending away from the outer surface that act as centering devices and energy directors for thermally bonding the device to an outer surface of the cage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.