G02B 6/4292
The light guide being disconnectable from the opto-electronic element
Official title: {the light guide being disconnectable from the opto-electronic element, e.g. mutually self aligning arrangements}
G02B6/4292 (The light guide being disconnectable from the opto-electronic element) appears on 3,567 US grants and 3,681 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Optoelectronic component with encapsulant486US 7,208,725 B2Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC · 2007
- Optoelectronic component comprising an encapsulant486US 7,781,727 B2Nuvotronics, LLC · 2010
- Wafer-level optoelectronic device substrate484US 7,288,758 B2Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC · 2007
- Optoelectronic component with flip-chip mounted optoelectronic device484US 8,049,161 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2011
- Coupling bushing for various types of optical fiber connectors342US 5,073,042 AAMP Incorporated · 1991