G02B 6/0066
Characterised by the light source being coupled to the light guide
Official title: {characterised by the light source being coupled to the light guide}
G02B6/0066 (Characterised by the light source being coupled to the light guide) appears on 5,304 US grants and 6,362 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 5,304
- Published applications
- 6,362
- Assignees
- 1,341
- Inventors
- 8,969
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 11 | 0 |
| 1991 | 11 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 19 | 0 |
| 1996 | 13 | 0 |
| 1997 | 26 | 0 |
| 1998 | 23 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 26 | 0 |
| 2001 | 37 | 27 |
| 2002 | 40 | 72 |
| 2003 | 57 | 122 |
| 2004 | 84 | 118 |
| 2005 | 86 | 126 |
| 2006 | 80 | 196 |
| 2007 | 96 | 224 |
| 2008 | 105 | 241 |
| 2009 | 132 | 257 |
| 2010 | 163 | 258 |
| 2011 | 173 | 271 |
| 2012 | 196 | 324 |
| 2013 | 233 | 301 |
| 2014 | 261 | 273 |
| 2015 | 253 | 406 |
| 2016 | 260 | 437 |
| 2017 | 333 | 405 |
| 2018 | 345 | 356 |
| 2019 | 421 | 408 |
| 2020 | 396 | 311 |
| 2021 | 335 | 299 |
| 2022 | 280 | 216 |
| 2023 | 227 | 229 |
| 2024 | 237 | 229 |
| 2025 | 184 | 163 |
| 2026 | 97 | 93 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Glass assembly, vehicle window glass and vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,607 B2Saint-Gobain Sekurit France
- Interior equipment for a motor vehicle having a lighting module with a flexible guide sheet6 Oct 2026US 12,752,700 B2Valeo Vision
- Backlight module, viewing mode switching method thereof, and display device including the backlight module6 Oct 2026US 12,754,362 B2Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
- Electronic device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,363 B2Innolux Corporation
- Ultra-thin frontlight having an optical coupling element29 Sep 2026US 12,748,250 B2reMarkable AS
- Light-emitting structure, display apparatus, and control method therefor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309906 A1Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.
- Single pupil rgb light source8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309995 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Illumination device and steering device using the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296306 A1Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
- Display device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299186 A1LG Display Co., Ltd.
- Display device and electronic mirror1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299344 A1Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Light guide and lateral illuminator1,026US 6,836,611 B2J. W. Speaker Corporation · 2004
- Light emitting device having a nitride compound semiconductor and a phosphor containing a garnet fluorescent material1,017US 5,998,925 ANichia Kagaku Kogyo K. K. · 1999
- Light emitting device and system providing white light with various color temperatures564US 8,459,832 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2013
- High-density illumination system467US 6,871,982 B2Digital Optics International Corporation · 2005
- Vehicle rearview mirror assembly386US 4,948,242 ADonnelly Mirrors, Inc. · 1990