G02B 7/008
Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements: with means for
Official title: {with means for compensating for changes in temperature or for controlling the temperature; thermal stabilisation}
G02B7/008 (Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements: with means for) appears on 805 US grants and 932 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System for minimizing perturbation in optics due to thermal deformation6 Oct 2026US 12,754,379 B2PLX, Inc.
- Component with elastic compensating element for motor vehicle headlight15 Sep 2026US 12,736,199 B2ZKW Group GmbH
- Temperature-adjustable optical imaging lens15 Sep 2026US 12,736,801 B2Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Athermalization concepts for polymer eyepieces used in augmented reality or mixed reality devices8 Sep 2026US 12,730,325 B2Magic Leap, Inc.
- See-through computer display systems18 Aug 2026US 12,710,659 B2Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
- Securing device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211211 A1
- Projector and light modulator9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194797 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Connection element for infrared vision equipment18 Jun 2026US 2026/0168845 A1Safran Electronics & Defense
- Thermally stabilized optical system11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160972 A1
- Polymer eyepiece assemblies for augmented and mixed reality systems11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160988 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- See-through near-eye display glasses with a fast response photochromic film system for quick transition from dark to clear321US 9,129,295 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · 2015
- Light modulator assembly98US 7,126,741 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2006
- System and method for providing thermal compensation for an interferometric modulator display96US 7,161,730 B2Idc, LLC · 2007
- Mounting system that maintains stability of optics as temperature changes92US 9,491,863 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2016
- Athermalized birefringent filter apparatus and method80US 7,534,991 B2Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. · 2009