G02B 26/121
Mechanical drive devices for polygonal mirrors
Official title: {Mechanical drive devices for polygonal mirrors}
G02B26/121 (Mechanical drive devices for polygonal mirrors) appears on 544 US grants and 395 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
- Casing for optical scanning device, including positioning mechanism that positions main body on upper side with respect to main body on lower side, in horizontal and height directions, and optical scanning device having such casing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,559 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,362 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical scanner noise reduction with improved air flow16 Jun 2026US 12,656,600 B2Seyond, Inc.
- Lidar system with dynamic scan speed2 Jun 2026US 12,644,968 B2Microvision, Inc.
- Hybrid two-dimensional steering LIDAR26 May 2026US 12,638,558 B2Voyant Photonics, Inc.
- Kaleidoscopic geometric vision platform1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299284 A1Summer Robotics, Inc.
- Hybrid two-dimensional steering lidar17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276793 A1Voyant Photonics, Inc.
- LIDAR systems and methods6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227493 A1Innoviz Technologies Ltd.
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including the same23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208498 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including the same16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202662 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and device for scanning light166US 9,304,316 B2Apple Inc. · 2016
- Electro-optical scanning system with gyrating scan head151US 5,371,347 AGAP Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- Light beam scanning pen, scan module for the device and method of utilization133US 5,932,860 AGEO Labs, Inc. · 1999
- Laser beam display87US 6,175,440 B1Advanced Laser Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Light beam scanning pen, scan module for the device and method of utilization83US 5,506,394 AGAP Technologies, Inc. · 1996