Patent 4427609 Issued on January 24, 1984. Estimated Expiration Date: September 16, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
The invention relates to piezoelectric polymer films.The invention relates to a production process consisting of stretching a polymer material blank by rolling under an electrical field between two oppositely rotating rollers.The invention is more particularly applicable to the production of electromechanical transducers, whose active elements are constituted by piezoelectric polymer films provided with electrodes.
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