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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154787 | Electrochromic materials Green electrochromic (EC) materials based on thiophene, and a green EC material based on pyrazine are disclosed. A first thiophene derivative (2,3-Di-thiophen-2-yl-thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine), which was previously investigated as a nonlinear optical material, is here dis... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8115984 | Laminated electrochromic devices and processes for forming the same This invention discloses pre-formed electrochromic films that are used in assembly of electrochromic devices. These films are laminated to conductive substrates to form the electrochromic devices. The invention also discloses optical characteristics of the substrate... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107153 | Flexible electrochromic devices, electrodes therefor, and methods of manufacture An electrochromic fiber or fabric is disclosed. The fiber or fabric includes a flexible, electrically conductive fiber, and a layer comprising an electrochromic material disposed on and surrounding the flexible, electrically conductive fiber. In one embodiment, the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102585 | Functionalized security glazing Glazing assembly, comprising in succession: a first rigid substrate (S1), a second rigid substrate (S2), at least one active system (3) comprising at least one film and placed ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102586 | Electronic window shading system for houses, transport vehicles and the like There is disclosed an automatic electronic window shading (tinting) system for houses and transport vehicles such as automobiles, RV's, trains, boats and the like, to provide shading for people to protect them from exposure to harmful direct sunlight, by providing t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094360 | Room temperature molten salt and display element A salt molten at room temperature that does not contain any organic solvent, excelling in stability; and a display device that is improved in the durability in high-temperature environment by virtue of the use thereof. There is provided a salt molten at room tempera... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089681 | Electrochromic device based on layer by layer deposition An electrode is described. The electrode includes a substrate having a first and a second surface, a conductive layer, multilayer structure having alternating layers of at least one polymer layer and at least one electroactive chemical bound nanoparticle layer. The ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085460 | Electrochromic device An electrochromic device includes a first substrate spaced from a second substrate. A first conductive member is formed over at least a portion of the first substrate. A first electrochromic electrode comprising a tungsten oxide coating is formed over at least a por... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059325 | Display device A display device is provided. The display device comprises a substrate. A first electrode layer is disposed on the substrate. An electrochromic material single layer is disposed on the first electrode layer, wherein the electrochromic material single layer has a plu... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049948 | Process for producing electrochemical display element and electrochemical display element This invention provides a novel process for producing an electrochemical display element, which can easily form a white scattering layer between opposed electrodes, has a high level of suitability for production, and has high stability after long-term use. The produ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049949 | Multi-layer electrode for high contrast electrochromic devices An electrochromic device includes a first substrate spaced from a second substrate. A first transparent conductive electrode is formed over at least a portion of the first substrate. A polymeric anode is formed over at least a portion of the first conductive electro... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8035881 | Multi-zone mirrors A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective z... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035882 | Active device having variable energy/optical properties The invention relates to an active device having variable energy/light transmission properties (100) comprising an active system (1, 12) between a protective substrate (2) and a protective cover (3), selected from an essentially inorganic... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031389 | Reflection-controllable electrochromic device using a base metal as a transparent conductor An all-solid-state electrochromic device comprises a transparent base material, and an electrochromic multilayer-stack structure formed on the transparent base material. The electrochromic multilayer-stack structure comprises a first transparent-conductive film form... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018638 | Fabrication of cell cavities for electrooptic devices This invention discloses methods to dispense adhesives for fabricating multiple electrooptic devices. In addition the invention also discloses on how the cavities of these electrooptic devices may be filled by an injection process. The Electrooptic devices of this i... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004739 | Control device for at least one electrochromic window and method for activating the same The invention relates to a control device for at least one electrochromic window (100, 100.1, 100.2, 100′, . . . ) with means (106, 108) for generating a charging current, to bring the window from a first state into a second state, wherein the window... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7978393 | Vehicular rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating these elements The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. Area of the effective field of view of the electro-optic mirror element substantially equals to that defined by the outermost perimeter of the ele... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961375 | Multi-cell solid-state electrochromic device A multi-cell electrochromic device comprises a plurality of solid-state electrochromic cells that are arranged in an optical alignment. Each electrochromic cell is separated from an adjacent electrochromic cell in the optical alignment by a transparent conductive la... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952785 | Manufacturing of electrochromic devices A manufacturing method of electrochromic devices (10) includes the steps of providing a first and second sheet including a first (22) and second (24) plastic substrate, respectively, at least partially coated with a first (12) and second ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7940447 | Electrochromic device An electrode is described. The electrode has a substrate having a first and a second surface; a conductive layer; an electroactive layer that includes nanoparticles having an average size from 5 nm to 30 nm; at least one electroactive chemical and at least one organ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7916379 | Electrochromic elements using antioxidants to suppress self-discharging The invention relates to the use of antioxidants of different kinds and concentrations in electrochromic elements having an ion conducting component to suppress self-discharging. In comparison to electrochromic elements known from prior art, electrochromic elements ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911674 | Electrochromic devices and methods for patterning such devices Varying the optical absorption of an electrochromic device in situ allows optimal control over the depth and quality of laser patterning lines when patterning electrochromic devices. Accordingly, an electrochromic device comprises a target conductive layer, an absor... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907322 | Electrochromic device An electrochromic device includes a first substrate spaced from a second substrate. A first conductive member is formed over at least a portion of the first substrate. A first electrochromic material is formed over at least a portion of the first conductive member. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7872791 | Electrochromic device contacting An electrochromic device (50) includes at least the typical five layer stack (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) between two substrates (22, 24) and connections elements (42, 44, 66) to the electron conducting layers (12, 14). At least one of the... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7864398 | Electro-optical element including metallic films and methods for applying the same A method for manufacturing an electrochromic element comprises providing a first substrate having first and second surfaces opposite one another and a first edge surface, providing a second substrate having third and fourth surfaces opposite one another and a second... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864397 | Curable electrolyte An electrolyte composition is described. The electrolyte composition includes at least one ionic compound; at least one polar solvent; at least one polymerizable material; at least one nanoparticle based viscosity modifier; at least one chain transfer agent; and at ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864399 | Reflective mirror assembly An interior rearview mirror reflective element includes a front substrate connected with a rear substrate via a perimeter seal, whereby, when so connected, at least a portion of a circumferential outer edge of the rear substrate is inward of a circumferential outer ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859737 | Interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle An interior rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly including a reflective element having a transparent substrate and a multi-zone mirror reflector established at a surface thereof. The mirror reflector includes at least a first zone and... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7830585 | Method of making an ion-switching device without a separate lithiation step In any manufacturing sequence for making a lithium ion-switching device, lithium has to be introduced at some stage into the device. An electrode inside the device is filled and depleted with lithium through an ion conductor at every use cycle of the device. Prior-a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830582 | Electrochromic display An electrochromic display is disclosed which comprises an array-side substrate (10) in which a pixel electrode (15) and an electrochromic layer (30) are formed, a color filter-side substrate (50) in which a counter electrode (53) a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830583 | Electro-optical element including IMI coatings An electrochromic element comprises a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a second substrate in spaced-apart relationship to the first substrate and having a third surface facing the second surface and a fourth sur... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830584 | Organic-inorganic composite material and method for producing the same, and functional electrode and functional device The present invention provides an organic-inorganic composite material containing a metal oxide, and a functional organic material located on the metal oxide, wherein the functional organic material and the metal oxide are bound via a silanol bond. An aspect that th... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826123 | Vehicular interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly A vehicular interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly includes an electrochromic mirror reflective element assembly and a video display disposed behind a transflective mirror reflector of the mirror reflective element assembly. The transflective mirror reflec... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817326 | Electrochrome element driver An electrochrome element driver supplies electrical power to an electrochrome element and includes an amplifying circuit, a variable resistor element, and a capacitor. The amplifying circuit has a control input for controlling a supply current flow to the electrochr... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813024 | EC mirror assembly The present invention provides an EC mirror assembly including an EC mirror cell and a control for controlling the reflectivity of the mirror cell, the assembly also including a pair of contact elements independently displaceable relative to the mirror cell while ma... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808691 | Green electrochromic materials Green electrochromic (EC) materials based on thiophene, and a green EC material based on pyrazine are disclosed. A first thiophene derivative (2,3-Di-thiophen-2-yl-thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine), which was previously investigated as a nonlinear optical material, is here dis... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808692 | Manufacturing of curved electrochromic devices A method of manufacturing permanently curved electrochromic devices is presented. The method includes provision (210, 211) of two plane thermoplastic substrates at least partly coated by an electron conducting layer. The substrates are further at least partia... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800807 | Electrochromic mirror An electrochromic mirror includes an electrochromic film, an electrically conductive reflective film formed at one thickness direction side of the electrochromic film, an electrically conductive film provided at one thickness direction side of the electrochromic fil... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7791784 | Electrically-controllable device with variable optical and/or energy properties Electrically controllable device having variable optical/energy properties in transmission or in reflection, comprising at least one carrier substrate provided with a stack of electrochromically functional layers, including at least two electrochromic active layers,... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7782518 | Electrodeposition method light modulating device, electrodeposition method reflective display device, and method of manufacturing transparent electrode for an electrodeposition method There is provided an electrodeposition method light modulating device including: (1) a transparent electrode, to which a polymer having a metallocene at a side chain thereof is fixed by a chemical bond; (2) a transparent electrode that is disposed to face the transp... | 08/24/2010 |
