Patent ID: 11879620
Assignee: CIENA CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G  H | IPC F  H

Claim 0:
1. A combination standoff and light emitting diode (LED) comprising:
a cylindrical surface mount standoff including a cylindrical wall defining a cylindrical cavity and having on one end a base adapted to be disposed on a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and on another end a circular opening to the cylindrical cavity adapted to receive a cylindrical light absorbing end of a lightpipe through the circular opening from the another end and into the cylindrical cavity; and
an LED located at the base of the surface mount standoff and aligned within the cylindrical cavity such that the LED is adapted to be aligned with the cylindrical light absorbing end of the lightpipe within the cylindrical cavity, wherein points of the LED for making electrical contact with the PCBA are surrounded by the base and exposed to the PCBA through a base surface of the base, and wherein the surface mount standoff and the LED are adapted to be fixed to the PCBA as a single component,
wherein the one end of the cylindrical wall surrounds the LED, and the another end of the cylindrical wall defines the circular opening, the cylindrical wall extending from the base to the circular opening.