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Passive electro-optic display device

US4068230A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 21, 1976
Grant dateJan 10, 1978
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Expiry dateOct 21, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/133504
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An electro-optic display device having an activable surface. The surface including several separately activable zones, each zone having at least two sets of parallel discrete elements imbricated one in another and each set also separately activable. By simultaneously activating several different sets of elements, at least two separate imbricated patterns or data may be displayed simultaneously. The separate patterns may be observed independently through a reticulated transparent screen which may be movable to display one pattern, then the other.

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