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US 8,564,503 · App. 12/744,130 · Granted Oct 22, 2013

Protective screen

Inventors: Aronne Righi (Bologna, IT); Francesco Rambaldi (Bologna, IT)
Assignee: Francesco Rambaldi
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Patent No.
US 8,564,503
App. No.
12/744,130
Granted
Oct 22, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention generally relates to a screen 1 of the type including a visor 2 whit variable transparency as a function of the extent of the electrical values measurable at its power supply clips 3 . The visor 2 is power supplied by a respective electric source with the possible interposition of appropriate devices 4 for the control and management of the electrical values of the power supplied. The liquid crystal visor 2 is flexible to be adapted to the surfaces of installation and the electrical power source includes at least a photovoltaic cell 5.

Claims (7)

1. Protective re-usable and flexible material built screen of the type including a visor 2 containing a cell of a known liquid crystal or electro-chromic technologies, with variable transparency as a function of the electrical values measurable at its power supply clips 3 , like but not exclusively ferro-electric, supper twisted nematics, dichroic dye gust-host where:

the liquid crystal visor 2 is characterized by the fact of being independent, autonomous and built with flexible materials that can be manually bended along several different axis in standard environmental conditions without significant loss of optical quality to match the surfaces of installation of a variety of existing see-trough screens, like but not exclusively “insert”, “coating film” for existing face-shields, car glasses or goggles lenses, with the scope of enhance the hosting device comfort in the protection from the incident light;

the visor 2 , in his preferred embodies, is characterized by the fact to be automatically controlled being activated in case of light, deactivated in case of darkness and fully supplied at the same time by one or more photovoltaic cell 5 connected in a serial or parallel circuit;

The visor 2 is power supplied by this photo-electric source with the possible interposition of a control circuit made of appropriate known electronic components 4 introduced with the sole purpose to better manage the electrical values of the power supplied.

2. The screen, as claimed in claim 1 , is characterized in that its visor 2 comprises at least one layer of transparent and flexible material coupled with a liquid crystal or electro-chromic unit that could be bent without significant optical quality loss.

3. The screen, as claimed in claim 1 , is characterized by the fact that the mentioned visor 2 comprises a couple of layers of bendable and transparent material with an interposed liquid crystal unit.

4. The screen, as claimed in claim 1 , is characterized in that an additional high resistance resistor is putted in a parallel circuit with the power supply clips of the liquid crystal visor 2 in order to rapidly dissipate the energy accumulated by the mentioned visor 2 itself, restoring the initial conditions when the electric supply is missing.

Priority Claims (1)
IT BO2007A0792 · Nov 30, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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