H01J 2237/0458
Movable, i.e. for changing between differently sized apertures
Official title: movable, i.e. for changing between differently sized apertures
H01J2237/0458 (Movable, i.e. for changing between differently sized apertures) appears on 118 US grants and 141 published applications in this corpus.
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