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Weapon aiming device

US5353134A · kind A · utility

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5Claims
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Filing dateNov 19, 1992
Grant dateOct 4, 1994
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Expiry dateNov 19, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B2027/0198
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Material made up of a thin layer between two surfaces, a first and a second, to be used as the third layer of a transparent goggles face, the first layer being a screen and the second layer being a thickness layer, remarkable in that the material consists of a formable transparent polymer matrix having a refractive index and containing micro-cavities in the form of lenses, the micro-cavities being made from a transparent material different from that of the matrix, the refractive index of the material of the micro-cavities changing under the influence of an electric field applied across it, for a first field value the refractive index being equal to that of the matrix, and for a second field value being greater than that of the matrix, a pair of electrodes being associated with each micro-cavity.

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