G02B 6/3504
Rotating, tilting or pivoting the waveguides, or with the waveguides describing a
Official title: {Rotating, tilting or pivoting the waveguides, or with the waveguides describing a curved path (rotary joint G02B6/3628)}
G02B6/3504 (Rotating, tilting or pivoting the waveguides, or with the waveguides describing a) appears on 201 US grants and 137 published applications in this corpus.
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