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Light valve containing improved light valve suspension

US4247175A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 31, 1978
Grant dateJan 27, 1981
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Expiry dateOct 31, 1998

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/172
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a light valve comprising a liquid suspension of small particles selected from the group consisting of halogenated alkaloid acid salts and metal halides in a liquid suspending medium, the improvement in which said liquid suspending medium comprises a liquid, saturated, aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbon having a ratio of halogen atoms to all other atoms therein of greater than 1:1, the halogen atoms of said particles being iodine and/or bromine and the halogen atoms of said halogenated hydrocarbon being of lower atomic weight than the halogen atoms of said particles, and at least 50% the halogen atoms of said halogenated hydrocarbon being selected from the group consisting of fluorine and chlorine.

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