Granted Patent
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US 12,243,498 · App. 17/212,558 · Granted Mar 4, 2025
Colored electrophoretic displays using same polarity reversing address pulse
Inventors:
Stephen J. Telfer (Arlington, MA); Stephen Bull (Windham, NH); Alain Bouchard (Boston, MA); Craig A. Herb (Medford, MA); Kosta Ladavac (Somerville, MA); Ana L. Lattes (Newton, MA); Jennifer M. Morrison (Watertown, MA); Richard J. Paolini, Jr. (Framingham, MA); Michael Thomas Regan (Troutman, NC); Luke M. Slominski (Sharon, MA); Lee Yezek (Watertown, MA); Kenneth R. Crounse (Somerville, MA); J. Ryan Kruse (Wayland, MA); Christopher L. Hoogeboom (Burlington, MA); Jason D. Feick (Auburndale, MA); David D. Miller (Wakefield, MA)
Assignee:
E Ink Corporation
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Abstract
An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.
Claims (13)
1. An electrophoretic medium comprising a fluid and first and second types of particles disposed in the fluid;
wherein the first type of particles bear charge of opposite polarity from that of the second type of particles; and
wherein the second type of particles bear a polymeric surface treatment, and wherein the second type of particles is formed from the reaction of pigment particles with a vinylbenzyl chloride to form a vinyl-functionalized pigment particles, followed by the polymerization reaction of an alkyl acrylate or an alkyl methacrylate in the presence of the vinyl-functionalized pigment particles.
2. The electrophoretic medium of claim 1 , wherein the second type of particles is formed using quinacridone or dimethylquinacridone pigment particles.
3. The electrophoretic medium of claim 2 , wherein the vinylbenzyl chloride is 4-vinylbenzyl chloride.
4. The electrophoretic medium of claim 2 , wherein the alkyl acrylate or the alkyl methacrylate is lauryl methacrylate.
5. The electrophoretic medium of claim 2 , wherein the vinylbenzyl chloride is 4-vinylbenzyl chloride, and wherein the alkyl acrylate or the alkyl methacrylate is lauryl methacrylate.
6. The electrophoretic medium of claim 1 , wherein the second type of particles has magenta color.
7. The electrophoretic medium of claim 6 further comprising a third type of particles, wherein the third type of particles bears charge of the same polarity as the polarity of the second type particles.
8. The electrophoretic medium of claim 7 , wherein the first type of particles, the second type of particles, and the third type of particles have different colors from each other.
9. The electrophoretic medium of claim 8 , wherein the first type of particles have yellow color, the second type of particles have magenta color, and the third type have white color.
10. The electrophoretic medium of claim 7 , wherein the third type of particles bear either no polymeric surface treatment or a polymeric surface treatment having a lower mass coverage per unit area of the particle surface than the polymeric surface treatment of the second type of particles.
11. The electrophoretic medium of claim 7 , wherein the characteristics of the first, second, and third types of particles are such that the particle-particle interactions are less between the particles of the first type and the particles of the second type than the particle-particle interactions between particles of the first type and the particles of the third type, such that when a first addressing impulse is applied to the electrophoretic medium, the first and third types of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field and the second type of particles move in the opposite direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but of the same polarity is applied to the electrophoretic medium, the first type of particles move in said one direction relative to the electric field, while the second and third types of particles move in said opposed direction relative to the electric field.
Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST
Recorded Apr 6, 2021
From: TELFER, STEPHEN J.; BULL, STEPHEN; BOUCHARD, ALAIN; HERB, CRAIG A.; LADAVAC, KOSTA; LATTES, ANA L.; MORRISON, JENNIFER M.; PAOLINI, RICHARD J., JR.; REGAN, MICHAEL THOMAS; SLOMINSKI, LUKE M.; YEZEK, LEE; CROUNSE, KENNETH R.; KRUSE, J. RYAN; HOOGEBOOM, CHRISTOPHER L.; FEICK, JASON D.; MILLER, DAVID D.
To: E INK CORPORATION
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Continuity (6)
Provisional Application
61823031
· May 14, 2013
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