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Radiation-hardened casing for an electronic component
Assignee: D'INFORMATIQUE MILITAIRE SPATIALE ET AERONAUTIQUE Cie
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Filing: 1984-05-24
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Granted: 1987-01-27
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Expires: 2004-05-24
Abstract
Abstract A casing for protecting electronic components or circuits against ionizing radiations, comprising an alternance of layers of materials having low and high atomic charge numbers, forming a multi-layer capacitor, and a base comprising an alternation of the same type.
Inventors
- 👤 Christian Val
- 👤 Joseph Pinel
- 👤 Yves B. Gibod
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 23:20
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10W; H10W42/00; H10W42/20; H10W44/00; H10W44/601; H10W76/00; H10W76/10; H10W76/12; H10W76/15; H10W76/157; H10W90/00; H10W90/701; H10W90/751; H10W90/754; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S257/00; Y10S257/916
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 21
Claim 1
Independent Claim
111 words
A radiation-hardened casing for an electronic component, comprising three elements, namely a base for receiving the component, a side part, and a cover fixed to the base by means of said side part, at least one of said elements comprising at least two layers of distinct materials, one of them being closer to the component than the other, the atomic charge number of said closer material being low with respect to that of the other, whereby said other layer highly attenuates ionizing radiation to provide said radiation-hardened casing and said closer layer has low electron ignition and shields said electronic component from electrons from said other layer caused by ionizing radiation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
111 words
A radiation-hardened casing for an electronic component, comprising three elements, namely a base for receiving the component, a side part, and a cover fixed to the base by means of said side part, at least one of said elements comprising at least two layers of distinct materials, one of them being closer to the component than the other, the atomic charge number of said closer material being low with respect to that of the other, whereby said other layer highly attenuates ionizing radiation to provide said radiation-hardened casing and said closer layer has low electron ignition and shields said electronic component from electrons from said other layer caused by ionizing radiation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said closer material has a low charge number and the other of said materials has a high charge number.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
13 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said element is said cover.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
41 words
The casing as claimed in claim 3 wherein said side part is made from a material with a high charge number and comprises a layer disposed on its internal face whose charge number is low with respect to the preceding one.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
40 words
The casing as claimed in claim 3 wherein said base is formed from a material whose charge number is low and comprises a layer, disposed on its external face, whose charge number is high with respect to the preceding one.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
43 words
The casing as claimed in claim 5, wherein said base comprises, formed in said material with a low charge number, inclusions on its internal and external faces, said inclusions being made from a material having good thermal conductivity and a high charge number.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
45 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein first of said materials is insulating and second of said materials is electrically conducting, said second material being disposed in at least two layers, on each side of said first material, the resulting assembly forming a capacitor.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
25 words
The casing as claimed in claim 7, wherein said materials are each disposed in a plurality of alternate layers, thus forming a multi layer capacitor.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
41 words
The casing as claimed in claim 7, wherein said side part is made from a material with a high charge number and comprises a layer disposed on its internal face whose charge number is low with respect to the preceding one.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
40 words
The casing as claimed in claim 7, wherein said base is formed from a material whose charge number is low and comprises a layer, disposed on its external face, whose charge number is high with respect to the preceding one.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
43 words
The casing as claimed in claim 10, wherein said base comprises, formed in said material with a low charge number, inclusions on its internal and external faces, said inclusions being made from a material having good thermal conductivity and a high charge number.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
25 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said element comprises a first further layer, disposed on its internal face, whose charge number is low.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
34 words
The casing as claimed in claim 12, wherein said element comprises a second further layer, disposed on its external face, made from a material having the same thermal characteristics as said first further layer.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
24 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said element comprises a further layer, disposed on its external face, whose charge number is high.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
32 words
The casing as claimed in claim 14, wherein said base further comprises a metal layer with low charge number, disposed on its internal face, said component being fixed to said metal layer.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
23 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transition between materials with differents charge numbers is realized by means of intermediate materials.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
25 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said material with a low charge number has a number of charges at most equal to twenty.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
25 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the material with low charge number is chosen from the following group: carbon, aluminum, silicon, alumina, silica.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
25 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said material with a high charge number has a number of charges at least equal to 35.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
37 words
The casing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said material with a high charge number is a dielectric ceramic chosen from the titanate family, from the oxide family or from the family of complex lead based ceramics.
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