G02B 6/3604
Rotary joints allowing relative rotational movement between opposing fibre or fibre bundle
Official title: {Rotary joints allowing relative rotational movement between opposing fibre or fibre bundle ends}
G02B6/3604 (Rotary joints allowing relative rotational movement between opposing fibre or fibre bundle) appears on 415 US grants and 337 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Rotatable connecting optical fibers454US 5,872,879 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1999
- Rotatably connecting optical fibers410US 5,949,929 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1999
- Fibre optic single mode rotary joint307US 5,039,193 AFocal Technologies Incorporated · 1991
- Fiber-optic rotational device, optical system and method for imaging a sample299US 7,382,949 B2The General Hospital Corporation · 2008
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