Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrically switchable shutter
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Application No.: US16193372Application Date: 2018-11-16
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Publication No.: US11039579B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Ranjith Divigalpitiya , Lorne A. Whitehead
- Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US MN St. Paul
- Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
- Current Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US MN St. Paul
- Agent Eric E. Silverman
- Main IPC: A01G9/14
- IPC: A01G9/14 ; E04B1/80 ; E06B9/264 ; F28F13/16 ; F28F13/00 ; E06B9/262 ; E06B9/24

Abstract:
A device includes a connected array of cells formed in a stack of flexible sheets. Each pair of adjacent sheets in the stack includes a first sheet and a second sheet bonded together at multiple bond locations. Each sheet has an electrically conductive layer disposed on an electrically non-conductive layer, the conductive layer comprising an electrically conductive non-metal material. Each pair of adjacent sheets in the stack is arranged so that the non-conductive layer of each first sheet is between the conductive layers of the first and second sheets. The cells of the array reversibly transition between an open state and a closed state in response to an electric potential having a magnitude greater than a threshold value applied between the conductive layers of the first and second sheets.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190174683A1 ELECTRICALLY SWITCHABLE SHUTTER Public/Granted day:2019-06-13
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