公开(公告)号：US20190146295A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-16

申请号：US16310164

申请日：2017-06-14

Applicant: View, Inc. ,  Corning Incorporated

Inventor： Ronald M. Parker ,  Anshu A. Pradhan ,  Abhishek Anant Dixit ,  Douglas Dauson

IPC: G02F1/155 ,  G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/161 ,  G02F1/1523

Abstract: Methods are provided for fabricating electrochromic devices that mitigate formation of short circuits under a top bus bar without predetermining where top bus bars will be applied on the device. Devices fabricated using such methods may be deactivated under the top bus bar, or may include active material under the top bus bar. Methods of fabricating devices with active material under a top bus bar include depositing a modified top bus bar, fabricating self-healing layers in the electrochromic device, and modifying a top transparent conductive layer of the device prior to applying bus bars.

公开(公告)号：US20190107764A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-11

申请号：US16209514

申请日：2018-12-04

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Sridhar K. Kailasam ,  Robin Friedman ,  Dane Gillaspie ,  Anshu A. Pradhan ,  Robert Rozbicki ,  Disha Mehtani

IPC: G02F1/153 ,  H01B13/00 ,  H01B5/14 ,  C23C14/34 ,  C23C14/06 ,  G02F1/15 ,  G02F1/155 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1523 ,  C23C14/08 ,  H01J37/34 ,  C23C14/02 ,  G02F1/13

Abstract: Electrochromic devices and methods may employ the addition of a defect-mitigating insulating layer which prevents electronically conducting layers and/or electrochromically active layers from contacting layers of the opposite polarity and creating a short circuit in regions where defects form. In some embodiments, an encapsulating layer is provided to encapsulate particles and prevent them from ejecting from the device stack and risking a short circuit when subsequent layers are deposited. The insulating layer may have an electronic resistivity of between about 1 and 108 Ohm-cm. In some embodiments, the insulating layer contains one or more of the following metal oxides: aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, silicon aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tungsten oxide, nickel tungsten oxide, and oxidized indium tin oxide. Carbides, nitrides, oxynitrides, and oxycarbides may also be used.

公开(公告)号：US20190025662A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

申请号：US16132226

申请日：2018-09-14

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Gordon Jack ,  Sridhar K. Kailasam ,  Stephen C. Brown ,  Anshu A. Pradhan

IPC: G02F1/163 ,  E06B9/24 ,  G02F1/01 ,  E06B3/67

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controlled in a manner that efficiently drives an optical transition over the entire surface of the electrochromic device. The drive voltage is controlled to account for differences in effective voltage experienced in regions between the bus bars and regions proximate the bus bars. Regions near the bus bars experience the highest effective voltage. In some cases, feedback may be used to monitor an optical transition. In these or other cases, a group of optically switchable devices may transition together over a particular duration to achieve approximately uniform tint states over time during the transition.

公开(公告)号：US10125419B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-13

申请号：US15668631

申请日：2017-08-03

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Martin John Neumann ,  Que Anh Song Nguyen ,  Anshu A. Pradhan ,  Robert T. Rozbicki ,  Dhairya Shrivastava ,  Jason Satern ,  Todd Martin

IPC: C23C14/34 ,  H01J37/34 ,  C01B33/113 ,  C01G9/02 ,  C01G19/02 ,  C08L23/06

Abstract: Described are methods of fabricating lithium sputter targets, lithium sputter targets, associated handling apparatus, and sputter methods including lithium targets. Various embodiments address adhesion of the lithium metal target to a support structure, avoiding and/or removing passivating coatings formed on the lithium target, uniformity of the lithium target as well as efficient cooling of lithium during sputtering. Target configurations used to compensate for non-uniformities in sputter plasma are described. Modular format lithium tiles and methods of fabrication are described. Rotary lithium sputter targets are also described.

公开(公告)号：US10001691B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-19

申请号：US14887178

申请日：2015-10-19

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Dhairya Shrivastava ,  Anshu A. Pradhan ,  Stephen C. Brown ,  David Walter Groechel ,  Robert T. Rozbicki

IPC: G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/03 ,  G02F1/15 ,  G09G3/19 ,  H04N9/16 ,  G02F1/163 ,  E06B9/24 ,  G02F1/161 ,  H04L12/28

CPC classification number: G02F1/163 ,  E06B9/24 ,  E06B2009/2464 ,  G02F1/161 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05B2219/2642 ,  H04L12/2803 ,  Y02A30/257 ,  Y02B80/50

Abstract: Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations.

公开(公告)号：US20180143502A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-24

申请号：US15875529

申请日：2018-01-19

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Anshu A. Pradhan ,  Disha Mehtani ,  Gordon Jack

IPC: G02F1/163

CPC classification number: G02F1/163 ,  G02F1/15 ,  G02F1/155 ,  G02F2001/1555

Abstract: Controllers and control methods apply a drive voltage to bus bars of a thin film optically switchable device. The applied drive voltage is provided at a level that drives a transition over the entire surface of the optically switchable device but does not damage or degrade the device. This applied voltage produces an effective voltage at all locations on the face of the device that is within a bracketed range. The upper bound of this range is associated with a voltage safely below the level at which the device may experience damage or degradation impacting its performance in the short term or the long term. At the lower boundary of this range is an effective voltage at which the transition between optical states of the device occurs relatively rapidly. The level of voltage applied between the bus bars is significantly greater than the maximum value of the effective voltage within the bracketed range.

公开(公告)号：US09904138B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-27

申请号：US15214340

申请日：2016-07-19

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Sridhar Karthik Kailasam ,  Robin Friedman ,  Anshu A. Pradhan ,  Robert T. Rozbicki

IPC: G02B26/00 ,  G02F1/03 ,  G02F1/15 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G09G3/38 ,  C03C17/34 ,  C23C10/28 ,  C23C14/08 ,  C23C14/18 ,  C23C14/56 ,  C23C14/58 ,  B05D5/06 ,  B23K20/10 ,  C23C14/02 ,  C23C14/04 ,  C23C14/14 ,  C23C14/34 ,  G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/155

CPC classification number: G02F1/1523 ,  B05D5/06 ,  B23K20/10 ,  C03C17/3417 ,  C03C2217/94 ,  C23C10/28 ,  C23C14/021 ,  C23C14/022 ,  C23C14/024 ,  C23C14/046 ,  C23C14/08 ,  C23C14/083 ,  C23C14/085 ,  C23C14/086 ,  C23C14/14 ,  C23C14/185 ,  C23C14/3407 ,  C23C14/568 ,  C23C14/58 ,  C23C14/5806 ,  C23C14/5853 ,  G02F1/15 ,  G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/1533 ,  G02F1/155

Abstract: Prior electrochromic devices frequently suffer from high levels of defectivity. The defects may be manifest as pin holes or spots where the electrochromic transition is impaired. This is unacceptable for many applications such as electrochromic architectural glass. Improved electrochromic devices with low defectivity can be fabricated by depositing certain layered components of the electrochromic device in a single integrated deposition system. While these layers are being deposited and/or treated on a substrate, for example a glass window, the substrate never leaves a controlled ambient environment, for example a low pressure controlled atmosphere having very low levels of particles. These layers may be deposited using physical vapor deposition.

公开(公告)号：US09885935B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-06

申请号：US14900037

申请日：2014-06-20

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Gordon Jack ,  Sridhar K. Kailasam ,  Stephen C. Brown ,  Anshu A. Pradhan

IPC: G02F1/03 ,  G02F1/07 ,  G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/163 ,  G09G3/19

CPC classification number: G02F1/163 ,  G09G3/19

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controlled in a manner that efficiently drives an optical transition over the entire surface of the electrochromic device. The drive voltage is controlled to account for differences in effective voltage experienced in regions between the bus bars and regions proximate the bus bars. Regions near the bus bars experience the highest effective voltage.

公开(公告)号：US09778532B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-03

申请号：US14489414

申请日：2014-09-17

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Anshu A. Pradhan

IPC: G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/163 ,  E06B9/24 ,  G09G3/19 ,  G02F1/00 ,  G02F1/15 ,  E06B3/67 ,  G02F1/01

CPC classification number: G02F1/163 ,  E06B3/6722 ,  E06B9/24 ,  E06B2009/2464 ,  G02F1/0018 ,  G02F1/0121 ,  G02F1/15 ,  G09G3/19 ,  G09G2310/066 ,  G09G2320/0686 ,  G09G2360/145

Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to methods for controlling an optical transition in an optically switchable device, and optically switchable devices configured to perform such methods. In various embodiments, non-optical (e.g., electrical) feedback is used to help control an optical transition. The feedback may be used for a number of different purposes. In many implementations, the feedback is used to control an ongoing optical transition.

公开(公告)号：US20170097553A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-06

申请号：US15286193

申请日：2016-10-05

Applicant: View, Inc.

Inventor： Gordon Jack ,  Sridhar K. Kailasam ,  Stephen C. Brown ,  Anshu A. Pradhan

IPC: G02F1/163 ,  G02F1/01

CPC classification number: G02F1/163 ,  E06B3/6722 ,  E06B9/24 ,  E06B2009/2464 ,  G02F1/0121 ,  G02F2201/58

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controlled in a manner that efficiently drives an optical transition over the entire surface of the electrochromic device. The drive voltage is controlled to account for differences in effective voltage experienced in regions between the bus bars and regions proximate the bus bars. Regions near the bus bars experience the highest effective voltage. In some cases, feedback may be used to monitor an optical transition. In these or other cases, a group of optically switchable devices may transition together over a particular duration to achieve approximately uniform tint states over time during the transition.