Electrochromic device having an electrically conductive seal
    63.
    发明授权
    Electrochromic device having an electrically conductive seal 有权
    具有导电密封的电致变色装置

    公开(公告)号:US06665107B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-16

    申请号:US10260705

    申请日:2002-09-30

    IPC分类号: G02F1153

    摘要: An electrochromic variable reflectance mirror for a vehicle includes a front element having a rear surface with a first layer of electrically conductive material disposed thereon, and a rear element having a front surface with a second layer of electrically conductive material disposed thereon. An electrical conductor may be provided to electrically couple a portion of the first conductive layer with a portion of the second conductive layer. At least one of the first and second conductive layers may be separated into a first portion and a second portion that is electrically isolated from the first portion and is in electrical contact with an electrochromic material disposed between the elements. A seal is provided to sealably bond the elements together in a spaced-apart relationship. The seal may have at least one electrically conductive region.

    摘要翻译: 用于车辆的电致变色可变反射镜包括前元件,其具有设置在其上的第一层导电材料的后表面,以及具有设置在其上的具有第二层导电材料的前表面的后元件。 可以提供电导体以将第一导电层的一部分与第二导电层的一部分电耦合。 第一和第二导电层中的至少一个可以被分离成与第一部分电隔离并与设置在元件之间的电致变色材料电接触的第一部分和第二部分。 提供密封件以间隔开的关系将元件可密封地结合在一起。 密封件可以具有至少一个导电区域。

    Electrochromic structures
    64.
    发明授权
    Electrochromic structures 有权
    电致变色结构

    公开(公告)号:US06239898B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-05-29

    申请号:US09200625

    申请日:1998-11-30

    IPC分类号: G02F1153

    CPC分类号: G02F1/157 G02F1/155

    摘要: Electrochromic windows and panels are provided which have first and second spaced elements that are optically transparent to visible light. The first and second elements each have first and second sides, and the windows and panels define a sealed chamber disposed between the second side of the first element and the first side of the second element. The sealed chamber is filled with an electrochromic medium, and the transmission of visible light through the electrochromic medium is variable when an electrical potential is applied to electrically conductive coatings that are provided on the second side of the first element and the first side of the second element. A layer partially transmissive of visible light and partially reflective of visible light is provided on one of the sides of the first or second elements so that the application of electrical potential to the electrochromic medium causes variations in the visible light transmitted through the partially visible light transmissive and partially visible light reflective layer and through the electrochromic medium whereby privacy and changes in visible color of the electrochromic medium may be either enhanced in one embodiment of the invention or hidden in another embodiment of the invention.

    摘要翻译: 提供电致变色窗和面板,其具有对可见光进行光学透明的第一和第二间隔元件。 第一和第二元件各自具有第一和第二侧面,并且窗户和面板限定了设置在第一元件的第二侧和第二元件的第一侧之间的密封室。 密封室充满电致变色介质,并且当将电位施加到设置在第一元件的第二侧上的导电涂层和第二元件的第一面上时,透过电致变色介质的可见光透射是可变的 元件。 在第一或第二元件的一个侧面上设置部分透射可见光并且部分反射可见光的层,使得向电致变色介质施加电位导致通过部分可见光透射的透射的可见光的变化 和部分可见的光反射层并且通过电致变色介质,由此在本发明的一个实施例中可以增强电致变色介质的可见颜色的隐私和变化,或者隐藏在本发明的另一个实施例中。

    Variable transmittance electrochromic devices
    65.
    发明授权
    Variable transmittance electrochromic devices 失效
    可变透射电色变装置

    公开(公告)号:US06211994B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-03

    申请号:US09477470

    申请日:2000-01-04

    申请人: Harlan J. Byker

    发明人: Harlan J. Byker

    IPC分类号: G02F1153

    摘要: Single-compartment, self-erasing, solution-phase electrochromic devices, solutions of electrochromic compounds for use as media of variable transmittance in such devices, and electrochromic compounds for such solutions are provided. The devices of the invention are surprisingly stable to cycling between light and dark states, have continuously variable transmittance to light as a function of electrical potential applied across the solution in a device, and have transmittance that can be varied over more than a factor of 10, from clear to dark or from dark to clear, in several seconds. Thus, the devices are especially suitable as variable transmittance components of variable transmission light filters, including windows, and variable reflectance mirrors, including anti-glare rearview mirrors in automobiles. Also provided are improved variable reflectance mirrors, wherein transmittance of reflected light is varied by thermochromic, photochromic or electro-optic means and wherein the reduction in transmittance which is required to eliminate perceptible reflection of an object to the eyes of an observer is reduced by disposing the plane of the highly reflective surface of the mirror at an angle with respect to the plane of the surface through which light from the object enters the mirror.

    摘要翻译: 提供单室,自擦除,溶液相电致变色装置,用作这种装置中透射率可变的介质的电致变色化合物的溶液以及用于这种溶液的电致变色化合物。 本发明的装置对于光和暗状态之间的循环是令人惊奇的稳定的,具有连续可变的透射率,作为穿过装置中的溶液施加的电势的函数,并且透射率可以超过10倍 ,从清澈到黑暗或从黑暗到清澈,几秒钟。 因此,这些装置特别适用于包括窗口的可变透光滤光器的可变透射分量,以及包括汽车中的防眩后视镜的可变反射镜。 还提供了改进的可变反射镜,其中反射光的透射率由热致变色,光致变色或电光装置改变,并且其中通过处置以减少物体对观察者的眼睛的可察觉反射所需的透射率的降低 反射镜的高度反射表面的平面相对于表面的平面成角度,通过该平面,来自物体的光进入反射镜。

    Near infrared-absorbing electrochromic compounds and devices comprising same
    66.
    发明授权
    Near infrared-absorbing electrochromic compounds and devices comprising same 失效
    近红外吸收电致变色化合物及包含其的装置

    公开(公告)号:US06193912B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-02-27

    申请号:US09034531

    申请日:1998-03-03

    IPC分类号: G02F100

    CPC分类号: C09K9/02 G02F1/1521

    摘要: Electrochromic compounds capable of reversibly attenuating the transmittance of the near infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum are provided. These compounds exhibit an energy difference between the singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) energy and the highest doubly occupied molecular orbital (HDOMO) energy (ESOMO−EHDOMO) of less than about 3.6 eV. In addition, these compounds have a transition moment of the configuration made up of the HDOMO and SOMO that is “long axis polarized”.

    摘要翻译: 提供能够可逆地衰减电磁光谱的近红外部分的透射率的电致变色化合物。 这些化合物在单独占据的分子轨道(SOMO)能量和低于约3.6eV的最高双重占据的分子轨道(HDOMO)能量(ESOMO-EHDOMO)之间表现出能量差。 此外,这些化合物具有由“长轴极化”的HDOMO和SOMO构成的结构的转变时刻。

    Prismatic variable reflectance mirrors
    68.
    发明授权
    Prismatic variable reflectance mirrors 失效
    棱镜可变反射镜

    公开(公告)号:US5481395A

    公开(公告)日:1996-01-02

    申请号:US174209

    申请日:1993-12-28

    申请人: Harlan J. Byker

    发明人: Harlan J. Byker

    摘要: Prismatic variable reflectance mirrors are provided. In the mirrors of the invention, transmittance of reflected light is varied by thermochromic, electrochromic, photochromic or electro-optic means and the reduction in transmittance, which is required to eliminate perceptible reflection of an object to the eyes of an observer, is reduced by disposing the plane of the highly reflective surface of the mirror at an angle with respect to the plane of the surface through which light from the object enters the mirror.

    摘要翻译: 提供棱镜式可变反射镜。 在本发明的反射镜中,通过热变色,电致变色,光致变色或电光装置改变反射光的透射率,并且减少了将物体对观察者的眼睛的可察觉反射消除所需的透射率的降低, 将反射镜的高度反射表面的平面设置成相对于表面的平面成角度,通过该平面,来自物体的光进入反射镜。

    Bipyridinium salt solutions
    69.
    发明授权
    Bipyridinium salt solutions 失效
    双吡啶鎓盐溶液

    公开(公告)号:US5294376A

    公开(公告)日:1994-03-15

    申请号:US720170

    申请日:1991-06-25

    申请人: Harlan J. Byker

    发明人: Harlan J. Byker

    摘要: The present invention provides solutions of certain 4,4'-bipyridinium salts, such as salts of 1,1'- dibenzyl-2,2',6,6'-tetraalkyl-4,4'-bipyridinium cations. The solutions of the invention are employed as solutions of variable transmittance in solution-phase electrochromic devices, including such devices that are single-compartment and self-erasing. In the solutions of the invention in such devices, the bipyridinium salts are cathodic electrochromic compounds, as reduction of a cation of such a salt causes its molar extinction coefficient at at least one wavelength in the visible range to increase markedly. Electrochromic devices, in which solutions of the invention provide variable transmittance, are, in turn, components of variable transmittance in display devices, windows and other types of light filters, and variable reflectance mirrors, such as those that can be used as dimmable rearview mirrors in motor vehicles.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供某些4,4'-联吡啶鎓盐,例如1,1'-二苄基-2,2',6,6'-四烷基-4,4'-联吡啶阳离子的盐的溶液。 本发明的解决方案用作溶液相电致变色装置中可变透射率的解决方案,包括单室和自擦除装置。 在本发明的这种装置的溶液中,联吡啶鎓盐是阴极电致变色化合物,因为这种盐的阳离子的还原使其在可见光范围内的至少一个波长的摩尔消光系数显着增加。 本发明的解决方案提供可变透射率的电致变色装置又是显示装置,窗口和其他类型的滤光器中的可变透射率的组分,以及可用作可调光后视镜的可变反射镜 在机动车辆。