G02B 6/3582
Housing means or package or arranging details of the switching elements
Official title: {Housing means or package or arranging details of the switching elements, e.g. for thermal isolation}
G02B6/3582 (Housing means or package or arranging details of the switching elements) appears on 479 US grants and 360 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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