Electrochromic element

• US 4,135,790 A
• Filed: 04/25/1977
• Issued: 01/23/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nippon Kotsu Kabushiki Kaisha (Nikon Corporation)
• Inventors: Akasaka, Hideki, Takahashi, Youske
• Primary Examiner(s): Zazworsky, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Davie, James W.
• Application Number:
  US05/790,486
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 350/357, 350/353, 350/363
• US Class Current: 359/275
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/153 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/155 Electrodes

Abstract

An electrochromic element comprising a composite cell composed of a lamination of a plurality of unit cells, at least in partial registry with one another; each of said unit cells having a pair of transparent flat electrodes at least in partial registry with one another and an electrochromic material filling a space between said transparent electrodes, and a transparent substrate for supporting said composite cell.

Claims

1. An electrochromic element comprising a composite cell composed of a lamination of a plurality of unit cells at least in partial registry with one another, each of said unit cells having a pair of transparent electrodes at least in partial registry with one another and an electrochromic material filling a space between said transparent electrodes, and a transparent substrate for supporting said composite cell.

2. An electrochromic element as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transparent electrodes of adjacent ones of said unit cells, which are in facing relation to each other, are made integral to form a common transparent electrode.

3. An electrochromic element as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said unit cells has a different electrochromic material from those of the remaining unit cells, said different electrochromic material having an optical absorption band different from those of the electrochromic material of said remaining unit cells.

4. An electrochromic element as claimed in claim 3, wherein at least one of said transparent electrodes of said composite cell is divided into a plurality of sections insulated electrically from each other.

5. An electrochromic element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the total thickness of said electrochromic materials of said composite cell is from about 0.5μ

to about 1.0μ

.