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5419854 Organic solid electrolyte and coloring-discoloring device using the same  
An organic solid electrolyte and an electrochromic device using the electrolyte are disclosed. The organic solid electrolyte comprises in combination a monosaccharide represented by the general...
5418640 Spatially graded optical switch  
A spatially graded optical switch is described which comprises a transparent substrate, a layer of optically switchable material deposited on the substrate and having optical thickness which is a...
5416617 Image projection display screen employing polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer and electrochromic layer  
A diffusing display screen resulting from the combination of a cell comprising a polymer dispersed liquid crystal material which can be made diffusing, and of a cell comprising an electrochromic...
5413739 Electrochromic materials and displays  
Dispersions of electrically conductive particles useful for preparing electrically conductive, essentially ionically isolative composite layers having electrically conductive particles dispersed in...
5410426 Electrochromic system  
An electrochromic system comprising a layer of anode electrochromic material with all iridium oxide bass formatted by intensiostatic cycling in a liquid medium comprising a salt of a cation,...
5404244 Electrochromic structures and methods  
The invention provides for the simplified production of chromogenic devices, including relatively large scale devices in panel form. One or more of the layers of the invention are formed from...
5403680 Photolithographic and electron beam lithographic fabrication of micron and submicron three-dimensional arrays of electronically conductive polymers  
The present invention relates to a method to produce a thin film three dimensional microelectrode of an electrically conductive polymer having an organized array of identical microprotrusions,...
5402144 Electrical supply for an electrochromic cell  
An electrochromic cell, connected to an electrical reference element equivalent to an element of the electrochromic cell of zero surface dimensions and zero electrolyte thickness, connected in...
5390045 Adjustable window tinting system  
A selectively variable window tinting system for limiting a passage of both visible light and radiative heat through an automobile window. Embodiments of the system include window glass assemblies...
5384653 Stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) powered electrochromic window  
A variable transmittance double pane window includes an electrochromic material that has been deposited on one pane of the window in conjunction with an array of photovoltaic cells deposited along...
5379146 Electrochromic pane  
The present invention has as its subject an electrochromic pane including two glass sheets (1, 2), each coated with a transparent electrically conducting film (3, 4) and separated by an electrode...
5377039 Polymeric electrochromic electrodes  
An improved multilayer electrochromic device, the improvement being to the electrochromic layer which necessarily must include an anion exchanging polymer having a polyoxometallate electrochromic...
5377037 Electrochromic-photovoltaic film for light-sensitive control of optical transmittance  
A variable transmittance optical component includes an electrochromic material and a photovoltaic device-type thin film solar cell deposited in a tandem type, monolithic single coating over the...
5370775 Formation of chemically reduced electrode layers  
Processes for forming stable electrodes for use in electrochromic devices are disclosed including a stable electrode, a second electrode, and an ion-conducting layer therebetween, the processes...
5365365 Electrochromic system with measurement of charge to be transferred  
An electrochromic system for controlling the color state of an electrochromic pane. The charge needed to obtain the desired color is determined from the discharge potential of the system and the...
5353148 Electrochromic device  
This invention relates to an electrochromic device comprising a layer (2') of an electrochromic product held between two conducting layers (5',6') each formed on one face of a transparent plate...
5352504 Electrochromic glazing  
The invention relates to an electrochromic glazing successively comprising a glass sheet, a first electrode constituted by a transparent electroconductive layer, whose square resistance is below 5...
5344594 Method for the fabrication of multicolored balls for a twisting ball display  
A method of forming hemispheric bichromal balls, including the steps bringing together two streams of differently colored hardenable liquids for forming a single side-by-side bichromal stream,...
5340503 High performance electrochemichromic solutions and devices thereof  
The specification discloses electrochemichromic solutions and devices based on the use of solvents comprising at least about 25% 3-hydroxypropionitrile, 3,3'-oxydipropionitrile,...
5336448 Electrochromic devices with bipyridinium salt solutions  
The present invention provides solution-phase electrochromic devices, including such devices that are single-compartment and self-erasing, in which the media of variable transmittance are solutions...
5332530 Solid gel electrolytic material for modulating light  
This invention concerns an electrolytic material in the form of a solid gel for the modulation of light comprising a homogeneous mixture of: (A) at least one organic solvent; (B) at least one...
5327281 Solid polymeric electrolytes for electrochromic devices having reduced acidity and high anodic stability  
Polymer electrolytes comprising co-polymers of vinylic, protonic acids and N,N' dialkyl substituted acrylamides and methacrylamides with high anodic stability, reduced acidity and high mechanical...
5321544 Electrochromic structures and methods  
A chromogenic device with a chromogenic material facing a conductive layer, in which the transmission of incident radiation through the conductive layer and the chromogenic material is enhanced....
5311350 Optical device and apparatus using the optical device  
The present invention provides an optical device according to this invention comprising a light transmitting optical member of a high molecular material containing mobile ions, and a pair of...
5307201 Electrode of nickel oxide intercalated with lithium ions and electrochromic devices which incorporate such an electrode  
An electrode of nickel oxide intercalated with lithium ions, is obtained by: thermally evaporating, under vacuum, nickel oxide (Ni 2 O 3 ) and depositing on a conductive glass substrate a film...
5294376 Bipyridinium salt solutions  
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...
5282077 Variable reflectance mirror  
The present invention provides variable reflectance mirrors wherein the component of variable transmittance is a single-compartment, self-erasing, solution-phase electrochromic device.
5280381 Process for preparing a solid polymeric fast ion conducting layer for an electrochromic device  
A solid polymeric fast ion conducting layer for an electrochromic device is prepared by forming a plurality of partially cured fast ion conducting polymer spacers, inserting the spacers and...
5280380 UV-stabilized compositions and methods  
The present invention concerns compositions, which comprise a solvent, which is suitable for a medium of variable transmittance in a solution-phase electrochromic device, and a UV-stabilizer, which...
5278693 Tinted solution-phase electrochromic devices  
The invention provides improved solution-phase electrochromic devices, wherein the solution of reversibly variable transmittance is tinted with a tint-providing compound, and solutions of...
5276547 Electrochromic element, materials for use in such element, processes for making such element and such materials and use of such element in an electrochromic glass device  
An electrochromic element useful in an electrochromic glass or mirror device and a process for making such element. The element is a five-layered structure including an electrolyte ion conducting...
5274493 Electrochromic element, materials for use in such element, processes for making such element and such materials and use of such element in an electrochromic glass device  
An electrochromic element useful in an electrochromic glass or mirror device and a process for making such element. The element is a five-layered structure including an electrolyte ion conducting...
5241411 Electrochromic variable transmission glazing  
An electrochromic variable transmission glazing comprising first and second glass sheets substrates which are joined by an organic polymer whose proton conductivity is greater than or equal to 10...
5240762 Organic thin film element  
An organic thin film element is disclosed which has an organic thin film consisting of a mixed stacked charge-transfer complex of donor and acceptor molecules, wherein the organic thin film is made...
5240646 Electrochromic materials  
The invention relates to novel electrochromic materials useful as electrochromic electrodes in eletrochromic cells and to their preparation process. These materials are constituted by at least one...
5239405 Electrochemichromic solutions, processes for preparing and using the same, and devices manufactured with the same  
The present invention relates to electrochromic solutions and devices manufactured therefrom. More precisely, the invention relates to electrochemichromic solutions, and those devices manufactured...
5233461 Methods for sealing electrochromic devices and devices manufactured thereby  
The method for sealing electrochromic devices disclosed in the present invention allows the cell cavity of a device to be established and filled with media at substantially the same time, without...
5231531 Electrochromatic glazings  
An electrochromatic glazing system is provided. The system comprises a first glass sheet covered with a first transparent electrically conductive film and a second glass sheet covered with a second...
5216536 Encapsulated electrochromic device and method for making same  
The performance and operating characteristics of electrochromic devices may be improved by the incorporation of a moisture control layer comprised of either water reservoir material or water...
5215684 Electrolyte for electrochromic elements  
An electrolyte for electrochromic elements which comprises an electrolytic base material to conduct ions and charge-controlling substances contained in the electrolytic base material. The...
5210638 Electrolyte material and light modulation devices using the same  
This invention is directed to an electrolytic material for use in light modulation devices. The material consists essentially of four components: (1) at least one organic solvent; (2) at...
5206756 Solid state electrochromic devices  
An electrochromic device which comprises two conductive electrodes separated by a solid electrolyte and an electrochromic material capable of reversible electrochromic interaction with activating...
5202788 Electrochromic device with ionically or mixed ionically-electronically conductive electrolyte  
The present invention provides an electrochromic device which is especially suitable as a window, mirror or display element, characterized by a multi-layer construction with at least one layer,...
5202201 Composite element having a titanium chalcogenide or oxychalcogenide layer, more particularly usable as the positive electrode in a thin film electrochemical cell  
The invention relates to a composite element usable in an electrochemical generator. The element comprises a substrate (1) covered by cathodic sputtering with a layer (5) of amorphous material TiO...
5193029 Single sensor adaptive drive circuit for rearview mirror system  
An automatic rearview mirror system having a reflective element that is actuatable between at least two different reflective conditions by a control that discriminates between glare-causing and...
5187608 Substituted 3,4-polymethylenedioxythiophenes, and polymers and electro responsive devices made therefrom  
Substituted 3,4-dimethylenedioxythiophenes are provided. The substituted 3,4-dimethylenedioxythiophenes can be polymerized by chemical or electro-chemical means to produce polymers which are useful...
5164465 Sulfonated polyaniline salt compositions, processes for their preparation and uses thereof  
Sulfonic acid-substituted polyaniline salt compositions, processes for their preparation and uses therefor are disclosed. The sulfonated polyaniline salt compositions have fast electronic and...
5159031 Sulfonated polyaniline salt compositions and uses thereof  
Sulfonic acid-substituted polyaniline salt compositions and uses therefor are disclosed. The sulfonated polyaniline salt compositions have fast electronic and optical responses to electrochemical...
5151816 Method for reducing current leakage and enhancing UV stability in electrochemichromic solutions and devices  
The specification discloses a method for reducing current leakage and enhancing UV stability by using electrochemichromic solutions whose solvents include, either solely or in combination with...
5145609 Linear polyether-containing electrochemichromic solutions and related devices  
The specification discloses electrochemichromic solutions and devices based on the use of from about 0.5 percent by volume of at least one linear polyether which is soluble in the...