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Optical element

US4900135A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 10, 1986
Grant dateFeb 13, 1990
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Expiry dateApr 10, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K15/1252
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An optical element comprised a pair of plates between which an optical modulation liquid layer is sandwiched, the optical modulation liquid layer exhibiting a light scattering property caused by suspension of fine particle polymer when not heated and exhibiting transparency caused by dissolution of fine particle polymer when heated, the change of such light scattering property to transparency being reversible.

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