G02B 6/3648
Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures
Official title: {Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures (microstructured devices per se B81B)}
G02B6/3648 (Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures) appears on 1,113 US grants and 963 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 16 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G02B 6/3652The additional structures being prepositioning mounting areas, allowing only movement in one1,020
- G02B 6/3656The additional structures being micropositioning, with microactuating elements for fine adjustment, or63
- G02B 6/366The additional structures allowing for adjustment or alignment in all dimensions, i.e.35
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