CONTROLLING TRANSITIONS IN OPTICALLY SWITCHABLE DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20230251542A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-10

    申请号:US18137917

    申请日:2023-04-21

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02F1/163 E06B9/24 G09G3/19 G02F1/0018

    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to methods for controlling an optical transition in an optically switchable device, and optically switchable devices configured to perform such methods. In various embodiments, non-optical (e.g., electrical) feedback is used to help control an optical transition. The feedback may be used for a number of different purposes. In many implementations, the feedback is used to control an ongoing optical transition.

    DRIVING THIN FILM SWITCHABLE OPTICAL DEVICES
    32.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230152655A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-18

    申请号:US18154396

    申请日:2023-01-13

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02F1/163 G02F1/15 G02F1/155 G02F2001/1555

    Abstract: Controllers and control methods apply a drive voltage to bus bars of a thin film optically switchable device. The applied drive voltage is provided at a level that drives a transition over the entire surface of the optically switchable device but does not damage or degrade the device. This applied voltage produces an effective voltage at all locations on the face of the device that is within a bracketed range. The upper bound of this range is associated with a voltage safely below the level at which the device may experience damage or degradation impacting its performance in the short term or the long term. At the lower boundary of this range is an effective voltage at which the transition between optical states of the device occurs relatively rapidly. The level of voltage applied between the bus bars is significantly greater than the maximum value of the effective voltage within the bracketed range.

    Fabrication of electrochromic devices

    公开(公告)号:US11599003B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-07

    申请号:US16836420

    申请日:2020-03-31

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    Abstract: Electrochromic devices and methods may employ the addition of a defect-mitigating insulating layer which prevents electronically conducting layers and/or electrochromically active layers from contacting layers of the opposite polarity and creating a short circuit in regions where defects form. In some embodiments, an encapsulating layer is provided to encapsulate particles and prevent them from ejecting from the device stack and risking a short circuit when subsequent layers are deposited. The insulating layer may have an electronic resistivity of between about 1 and 108 Ohm-cm. In some embodiments, the insulating layer contains one or more of the following metal oxides: aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, silicon aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tungsten oxide, nickel tungsten oxide, and oxidized indium tin oxide. Carbides, nitrides, oxynitrides, and oxycarbides may also be used.

    Electrochromic devices
    36.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11592722B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US16782543

    申请日:2020-02-05

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    Abstract: Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices. In various embodiments, a counter electrode is fabricated to include a base anodically coloring material and one or more additives.

    ACCESS AND MESSAGING IN A MULTI CLIENT NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230041490A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17940951

    申请日:2022-09-08

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    Abstract: A messaging system for exchanging messages between nodes in a network via a broker that uses a publish-subscribe message protocol, which nodes have object identifications (IDs). Messages between the nodes are routed using the object IDs of the nodes. Secure communication is provided using authentication according to digital certificates being used as first and second tiers by a commissioning broker and a data broker, respectively, in which the second tier certificate used by the data broker has a shorter lived expiration time.

    CALIBRATION OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS IN OPTICALLY SWITCHABLE WINDOWS

    公开(公告)号:US20230019843A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17946692

    申请日:2022-09-16

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to methods for controlling an optical transition and the ending tint state of an optically switchable device, and optically switchable devices configured to perform such methods. In various embodiments, non-optical (e.g., electrical) feedback is used to help control an optical transition. The feedback may be used for a number of different purposes. In many implementations, the feedback is used to control an ongoing optical transition. In some embodiments a transfer function is used calibrate optical drive parameters to control the tinting state of optically switching devices.

    Seals for electrochromic windows
    39.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11555346B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US17249821

    申请日:2021-03-15

    Applicant: View, Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for preventing and mitigating the ingress of moisture into an interior region of an IGU. Various techniques are disclosed including, for example, the use of a strain relief structure around wires passing through a secondary seal, improved materials for coating the wires, and additional/improved layers for bonding the secondary seal to tape provided around a spacer.

    MULTI-PIECE LOCKING FASTENER ASSEMBLY SUCH AS FOR SECURING A WHEEL RIM TO A VEHICLE HUB

    公开(公告)号:US20230012354A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17953062

    申请日:2022-09-26

    Abstract: A multi-piece locking fastener having an intermediate component exhibiting a plurality of interior threads arrayed in a first direction. A first fastener has a first enlarged head and a first stem exteriorly threaded in the first direction. A hollowed interior is formed in an end of the stem and exhibits a further plurality of interior threads extending in a second direction opposite the first direction. A second fastener has a second enlarged head and a second stem, upon which is configured a second exterior thread pattern extending in the second direction. The first fastener is installed through the intermediate component from a first direction, with the second fastener rotationally inter-engaging the exposed interior threads of the first fastener in the second direction until the second enlarged heads contact the intermediate component, with loosening of either of the first and second fasteners being prevented.

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