Method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror and an electrochromic mirror

• US 6,421,162 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2000
• Issued: 07/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock
• Original Assignee: Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation (ENEOS Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Masaaki, Ikai, Keizo, Asano, Tsuyoshi, Nishikitani, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Epps, Georgia
• Assistant Examiner(s): O'NEILL, GARY WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US09/747,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20010005275A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 359/265, 359/267, 359/270, 359/272, 359/273, 359/274, 359/275, 359/266, 359/269, 359/271, 429/303, 429/309, 429/317, 429/331, 429/332, 438/62, 252/518.1, 333/204
• US Class Current: 359/266
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/153 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1533 structural features not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/161 Gaskets; Spacers; Sealing of cells; Filling or closing of cells

Abstract

A method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror by laminating two electrically conductive substrates which comprises the step of placing at least two plates each having at least one linear portion and provided with in a predetermined position with a punched-out portion having a shape corresponding to that of said substrate, such that each of said linear portions is located on the same line or on each of two lines offset from each other, in a juxtaposed relationship at a predetermined interval; the step of positioning said two substrates by inserting them into each of said punched-out portions; the step of shifting one of said plates holding said substrates therein over the other plate such that the substrates are located in a superposed relationship to each other; and the step of laminating said substrates.

Claims

1. A method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror by laminating two electrically conductive substrates which comprises:

a step of placing at least two plates each having at least one linear portion and provided in a predetermined position with a punched-out portion having a shape corresponding to that of said substrate, in a juxtaposed relationship to each other at a predetermined interval, such that said linear portions are registered with the same line or two lines offset from each other, respectively;

a step of inserting said two substrates into each of said punched-out portions;

a step of shifting one of said plates holding the substrate therein over the other plate so as to locate said substrates in a superposed relationship to each other; and

a step of laminating said substrates.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein at least two said plates are arranged on a slidable carrier.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said plates each have a rectangular shape.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein a plurality of said punched-out portions are provided in said plate.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein said two substrates have the same shape.

7. The method according claim 1 wherein each of said two substrates has a rectangular shape.

8. An electrochromic mirror wherein it is obtained by injecting an electrolyte in the cell produced by a method according to claim 1.

5. A method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror by laminating two electrically conductive substrates which comprises:

a step of inserting one of said substrates into the punched-out portion having a shape corresponding thereto of a lower plate of a positioning device which further comprises an upper plate provided with a punched-out portion having the same shape as that of the punched-out portion of the lower plate, arranged in a superposed relationship to the lower plate so as to register said punched-out portions with each other or an upper plate provided with a punched-out portion which is larger by a predetermined offsetting width than said lower punched-out portion, arranged in a superposed relationship to the lower plate so as to register at least one side of one of the punched-out portions with that of the other plate; and

a step of inserting the other substrate into the punched-out portion of the upper plate so as to be superposed on said lower substrates or a step of inserting the other substrate into the punched-out portion of the upper plate with one side of the other substrate abutting the offset side of the upper punched-out portion so as to be superposed on the lower substrate, offsetting therefrom at a predetermined width.