C03B 37/01486
Means for supporting, rotating or translating the preforms being formed
Official title: {Means for supporting, rotating or translating the preforms being formed, e.g. lathes (C03B37/01884 takes precedence)}
C03B37/01486 (Means for supporting, rotating or translating the preforms being formed) appears on 189 US grants and 165 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Large-sized hollow porous quartz glass preform and method of manufacturing the same28 Jul 2026US 12,692,184 B2Shin-Etsu Quartz Products Co., Ltd.
- Optical fiber glass preform and method for manufacturing optical fiber glass preform7 Apr 2026US 12,595,203 B2Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- System and method for manufacturing all-fiber side-pump combiners with plurality of pumps17 Mar 2026US 12,580,361 B2Lightel Technologies, Inc.
- Synthetic quartz glass manufacturing method through OVD process with improved deposition efficiency16 Sep 2025US 12,415,743 B2BCnC Co., Ltd.
- Method for manufacturing optical fiber preform8 Apr 2025US 12,269,767 B2Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Method of manufacturing a hollow core optical fiber5 Feb 2026US 2026/0035282 A1Corning Incorporated
- Method and intermediate product for producing a multi-core fibre with a marker1 May 2025US 2025/0138239 A1Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co.KG
- Tubular composite body of quartz glass and method for producing and using the same13 Feb 2025US 2025/0051211 A1Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co.KG
- Tubular composite body made of quartz glass and method for producing and using the same13 Feb 2025US 2025/0051222 A1Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co.KG
- Device for holding a tubular sio2 blank in an external deposition process and method for manufacturing a tubular sio2 blank13 Feb 2025US 2025/0051223 A1Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co.KG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of producing elliptic core type polarization-maintaining optical fiber241US 5,482,525 AHitachi Cable, Ltd. · 1996
- Display for mosaic pattern of pixel information with optical pixel shift for high resolution154US 5,689,283 ASony Corporation · 1997
- Flat surfaced optical fibers and diode laser medical delivery devices132US 5,566,267 ACeram Optec Industries, Inc. · 1996
- Method of making glass optical waveguide60US 3,932,162 ACorning Glass Works · 1976
- Method for making optical fibers with variations in core diameter54US 4,049,413 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1977