Electrowetting element
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGor MANUKYAN, Bokke Johannes FEENSTRA
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Abstract
An electrowetting element comprising: a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid; and a surface. The first and second fluids are switchable to a first configuration by application of a voltage, the first fluid adjoining a first area of the surface and the second fluid adjoining a second area of the surface in the first configuration. The electrowetting element includes at least one reconfiguration reducer for reducing a reconfiguration of the first and second fluids from the first configuration to a second configuration. The second configuration has the first fluid adjoining the second area and the second fluid adjoining the first area, there being a tendency for said reconfiguration to occur when maintaining said applied voltage.
Claims23
An electrowetting element comprising:
- a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid;
- and
- a surface,
- the first and second fluids being switchable to a first configuration by application of a voltage, the first fluid adjoining a first area of the surface and the second fluid adjoining a second area of the surface in the first configuration,
- the electrowetting element including at least one reconfiguration reducer for reducing a reconfiguration of the first and second fluids from the first configuration to a second configuration, wherein the second configuration has the first fluid adjoining the second area and the second fluid adjoining the first area, there being a tendency for said reconfiguration to occur when maintaining said applied voltage.
An electrowetting display device comprising:
- at least one electrowetting element including a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid;
- and a surface,
- the first and second fluids being switchable to a first configuration by application of a voltage, the first fluid adjoining a first area of the surface and the second fluid adjoining a second area of the surface in the first configuration, the at least one electrowetting element including at least one reconfiguration reducer for reducing a reconfiguration of the first and second fluids from the first configuration to a second configuration, wherein the second configuration has the first fluid adjoining the second area and the second fluid adjoining the first area, there being a tendency for said reconfiguration to occur when maintaining said applied voltage,
- the electrowetting display device further comprising:
- a configuration of electrodes for applying said voltage;
- and
- a voltage controller configured to control the applying of said voltage to the configuration of electrodes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.