Stephen D Collins

US Patent:

7375456, May 20, 2008

Filed:

Mar 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/095061

Inventors:

Stephen A. Collins - Lowell MA, US
John A. Scholz - Georgetown MA, US
Kenneth J. Rochon - Pembroke NH, US

Assignee:

Osram Sylvania Inc. - Danvers MA

International Classification:

H01K 1/58

US Classification:

313 25, 313 26, 313 27, 439615, 439739

Abstract:

The HID lamp mount has a discharge tube with two ends. A shroud surrounds the tube. Shroud clips position the shroud ends. The shroud clips have arcuate portions engaging the shroud periphery and transverse portions spanning the shroud diameter and grasping and positioning the tube ends. A shroud rod attaches between the clips to maintain their positioning. An electrical lead-in connects the second electrode terminus and has a first leg extending transversely from the terminus and a second leg extending parallel to the electrode. An offset electrical lead-in connects the first electrode terminus, and has a first section extending transversely to the first electrode, a second section extending parallel to the shroud, a third section extending toward the shroud, and a fourth section extending parallel to the shroud. An offset electrical lead-in retaining clip is affixed to the shroud and the fourth section of the offset electrical lead-in retaining clip.

US Patent:

20190015930, Jan 17, 2019

Filed:

Jul 14, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/650542

Inventors:

- Wilsonville OR, US
Henry Kelley - Woburn MA, US
Stephen C. Collins - Bozeman MT, US
Zachary Cole - Bozeman MT, US
Randy W. Equall - Bozeman MT, US

International Classification:

B23K 26/04
B23K 26/062
H01S 3/16

Abstract:

Techniques are disclosed for an improved boresighting apparatus and related method for boresighting a light source to an imaging sensor, and for an improved material to be used in a target object in such a boresighting apparatus. For example, an apparatus for use in boresighting may include a catadioptric element and a target object, where the catadioptric element is configured to focus a laser beam from the light source and also to collimate light emitted from the target object at a different wavelength than the laser beam to be detected by the imaging sensor for indicating the location of the focused laser beam. The target object may, for example, comprises a fluorescent optical material doped with one or more optically active ions to absorb light having the wavelength of the laser beam and emit light in one or more wavebands detectable by the imaging sensors.