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Optical filter for protective welding lens assemblies

US4728173A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 22, 1985
Grant dateMar 1, 1988
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 22, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/13475
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical filter for welding protective lens assemblies has two parallel electro-optical cells, at least one of the cells being of the nematic type with admixture of dye molecules with anisotropic light absorption. The filter comprises a filter sheet disposed in the ray path of the cells and allowing transmission within a wave range which is offset with respect to the wave range within which said one cell is transmitting residual light in its absorbing state.

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