G02B 17/0642
Off-axis or unobscured systems in which not all of the mirrors share
Official title: {off-axis or unobscured systems in which not all of the mirrors share a common axis of rotational symmetry, e.g. at least one of the mirrors is warped, tilted or decentered with respect to the other elements}
G02B17/0642 (Off-axis or unobscured systems in which not all of the mirrors share) appears on 98 US grants and 94 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 98
- Published applications
- 94
- Assignees
- 59
- Inventors
- 128
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Dual beam path optical arrangements14 Jul 2026US 12,681,280 B1Eagle Technology, LLC
- Head up display device that utilizes a backlight toroidal mirror to adjust an eye box10 Feb 2026US 12,546,997 B2
- Panel inspection device having first, second and third mirrors, and method for inspecting a panel6 Jan 2026US 12,517,337 B2Excelitas Deutschland GmbH
- Aerial image display device5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036827 A1KYOCERA Corporation
- Hybrid reflective/refractive head mounted display1 Jan 2026US 2026/0003189 A1Optique Debt Investment, LLC
- Beam expander for a replication apparatus20 Nov 2025US 2025/0355267 A1Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
- Aerial image display device13 Nov 2025US 2025/0347926 A1KYOCERA Corporation
- Display device and aerial image display device30 Oct 2025US 2025/0336320 A1KYOCERA Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Three mirror anastigmatic optical system78US 4,265,510 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1981
- Reflective optical triplet having a real entrance pupil41US 4,733,955 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1988
- Catoptric optical system including concave and convex reflectors38US 5,309,276 AOptical Research Associates · 1994
- Off-axis three-mirror anastignat having corrector mirror29US 5,550,672 AHughes Electronics Corporation · 1996
- Off-axis three-mirror anastigmat having corrector mirror25US 6,016,220 ARaytheon Company · 2000