G02B 17/0816
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}
G02B17/0816 (Off-axis or unobscured systems in which not all of the mirrors share) appears on 183 US grants and 154 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 183
- Published applications
- 154
- Assignees
- 68
- Inventors
- 238
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical system, and image observing apparatus and image pickup apparatus using it178US 5,706,136 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1998
- Head or face mounted image display apparatus175US 5,701,202 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1997
- Optical apparatus166US 6,437,925 B1Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2002
- Variable mirror, optical apparatus and decentered optical system which include variable mirror, variable-optical characteristic optical element or combination thereof162US 6,464,363 B1Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2002
- Image display apparatus115US 6,124,977 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2000