A61F 2002/3493
Spherical shell significantly greater than a hemisphere
Official title: {Spherical shell significantly greater than a hemisphere, e.g. extending over more than 200 degrees}
A61F2002/3493 (Spherical shell significantly greater than a hemisphere) appears on 130 US grants and 126 published applications in this corpus.
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