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Passive infrared detector

US5107120A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 22, 1989
Grant dateApr 21, 1992
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S250/01
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A passive infrared detector, including a pyroelectric sensor with three pairs of contiguous, active elements and a Fresnel lens with a plurality of segments each of which has an optical center and an equivalent focal length, each pair of active elements disposed in different plane, with each optical center juxtaposed to the plane of at least one of those active elements, substantially at the focal length.

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