Pattern electrode structure for electro-wetting apparatus
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsKwang-Joon Han, Jai-Min Han, Byung-Kyu Cho
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Abstract
A pattern electrode structure, which is stacked between a base material and a dielectric layer of an electro-wetting apparatus, includes a plurality of branch electrodes formed in a direction perpendicular to an arbitrary plane perpendicular to a plane formed by the pattern electrode structure to be spaced from each other at regular intervals, and a plurality of sub-branch electrodes formed to extend from the plurality of branch electrodes by as much as a predetermined length in an inclined direction, whereby, self-cleaning performance may be more efficiently exhibited even for small droplets.
Claims9
A pattern electrode structure for an electro-wetting apparatus, which is stacked between a base material and a dielectric layer of the electro-wetting apparatus, the pattern electrode structure comprising:
- a plurality of branch electrodes formed in a direction perpendicular to an arbitrary plane perpendicular to a plane formed by the pattern electrode structure to be spaced from each other at regular intervals;
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- a plurality of sub-branch electrodes formed to extend from the plurality of branch electrodes by a predetermined length in an inclined direction,
- wherein, among the plurality of sub-branch electrodes, a sub-branch electrode extending from one branch electrode among the plurality of branch electrodes is formed to be spaced from a sub-branch electrode extending from an adjacent branch electrode by a predetermined distance,
- wherein the sub-branch electrode extending from the one branch electrode among the plurality of branch electrodes is placed between sub-branch electrodes extending from the adjacent branch electrode,
- wherein the inclined direction of the plurality of sub-branch electrodes extended from same side of the plurality of branch electrodes is same, and
- wherein the sub-branch electrode extending from the adjacent branch electrode is arranged between two sub-branch electrodes extending from one branch electrode among the plurality of branch electrodes and arranged vertically adjacent to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.