G02B 17/0836
Using more than three curved mirrors
Official title: {using more than three curved mirrors (G02B17/0864, G02B17/0896 take precedence)}
G02B17/0836 (Using more than three curved mirrors) appears on 313 US grants and 240 published applications in this corpus.
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- 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-forming optical system113US 6,671,099 B2Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2003
- Viewing optical system and image display apparatus using the same108US 6,396,639 B1Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2002