SWITCHING FIBERS FOR TEXTILES
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230044551A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17973653

    申请日:2022-10-26

    Abstract: A method of forming a color-changing fiber that can be incorporated into fabrics and other woven materials. The color changing fibers include an annular wall and a conductive wire axially extending through the annular wall, a core strand surrounded by the annular wall and extending axially through a central portion of the fiber, and an encapsulated electro-optic medium disposed on a surface of the core strand.

    MULTI-COLOR ELECTRO-OPTIC MEDIA
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210356834A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-18

    申请号:US17385978

    申请日:2021-07-27

    Abstract: An electro-optic medium that may be incorporated into an electro-optic display. The medium includes a first microcapsule containing at least one of a first dispersion of colored particles and a colored fluid and an encapsulated second dispersion that may include the first microcapsule and a plurality of electrophoretic particles. The colored particles of the first dispersion may include one or more sets of differently colored electrophoretic particles. The second dispersion may be encapsulated within a second microcapsule or a microcell, for example.

    TRANSFERRABLE LIGHT-TRANSMISSIVE ELECTRODE FILMS FOR ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20210191224A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-24

    申请号:US17113339

    申请日:2020-12-07

    Abstract: An electro-optic device, and its method of manufacturing, is disclosed comprises a first substrate layer, a conductive film comprising a first adhesive layer and a first electrode layer, an electro-optic material layer, and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer, which is on contact with the electro-optic material layer, comprises a conductive material, such as conductive particles, a metallic material or a conductive polymer. The first adhesive layer has high storage modulus and does not exhibit plastic flow under the conditions of manufacturing, storage, and operation of the electro-optic device. The conductive film does not conform to the surface roughness of the first surface of the electro-optic material layer. The conductive film may be designed to be thin, flexible and transparent. The resulting electro-optic device exhibit excellent electro-optic performance even where the electro-optic material layer has imperfections in the form of gaps.

    SWITCHING FIBERS FOR TEXTILES
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200241330A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-30

    申请号:US16851175

    申请日:2020-04-17

    Abstract: A method of forming a color-changing fiber that can be incorporated into fabrics and other woven materials. The color changing fibers include an annular wall and a conductive wire axially extending through the annular wall, a core strand surrounded by the annular wall and extending axially through a central portion of the fiber, and an encapsulated electro-optic medium disposed on a surface of the core strand.

    COLOR-CHANGING ELECTROPHORETIC THREADS AND FIBERS, AND METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MAKING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240158945A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-16

    申请号:US18389335

    申请日:2023-11-14

    CPC classification number: C25D13/04 C25D13/16

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a color-changing thread is described. The method includes providing an aqueous slurry including an encapsulated electrophoretic medium and a binder. The electrophoretic medium includes a first and a second type of electrophoretic particles. The first type of electrophoretic particles have a different charge and color than the second type of electrophoretic particles. The method also includes injecting the aqueous slurry into a fluid reservoir holding an aqueous cross-linker, and forming a hydrogel matrix that entraps the encapsulated electrophoretic medium within a cross-linked binder. The apparatus includes a body housing multiple reservoirs for holding materials used to form color-changing microcapsule threads. Solutions of materials are dispensed simultaneously with a cross-linking agent through a multi-chamber needle form the threads by an ionic cross-linking reaction.

    EDIBLE ELECTRODES AND USES IN ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS

    公开(公告)号:US20210373407A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US17289326

    申请日:2019-12-12

    Abstract: Flowable electrode materials and articles constructed therefrom that can be used to make edible electrical connections. The flowable electrode material may comprise a liquid and a salt, wherein the liquid and the salt are edible. The flowable electrode material can be used to create electrodes, and those electrodes may be incorporated into an electro-optic display comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electro-optic material located between the first electrode and the second electrode. In some embodiments, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the electro-optic material can be edible.

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