G02B 7/22
Extensible connections
Official title: Extensible connections, e.g. bellows
G02B7/22 (Extensible connections) appears on 36 US grants and 35 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 36
- Published applications
- 35
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 90
- Latest grant
- 24 Mar 2026
Filings by year
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| 2011 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2017 | 3 | 6 |
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| 2020 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light-shielding member and head-mounted display24 Mar 2026US 12,585,116 B2Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Sag compensation for deformable lens17 Mar 2026US 12,578,511 B1Apple Inc.
- Protective seal13 Jan 2026US 12,523,867 B2Latelec
- Optical element driving mechanism30 Dec 2025US 12,510,728 B2TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Camera5 Mar 2024US 11,921,405 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Portable aerial image display device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227596 A1INTERMAN Corporation
- Light-shielding member and head-mounted display23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211242 A1Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Adjuster using torsionally stiff coupler and actuator system using same25 Dec 2025US 2025/0390029 A1Cymer, Inc.
- Electronic device with movable lifting component20 Mar 2025US 2025/0097332 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optical module24 Oct 2024US 2024/0353648 A1NEC Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Light intercepting device in lens barrel37US 5,033,819 AAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1991
- Apparatus, systems, and methods for magnetically detachable head-mounted-display strap interfaces30US 10,663,737 B1Facebook Technologies, LLC · 2020
- Bellows13US 4,662,734 AKabushiki Kaisha Sakai Tokushu Camera Seisakusho · 1987
- Light intercepting apparatus of lens barrel12US 5,365,373 AAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Bellows assembly for photographic cameras11US 4,547,053 AFirma Novoflex Fotogeratebau Karl Muller · 1985