The University of British Columbia

Wesley Bowley

Lorne Arthur Whitehead

Michele Ann Mossman

Namamrta Musterer

Debbie Eeltink

Laura Megan Ogilvie

Jon Scott

Michele Mossman

Lorne Whitehead

A variable thermal insulation assembly includes a plurality of sheets of film, wherein each sheet is bonded to an adjacent sheet along a plurality of longitudinally extending regions to form a plurality of longitudinally extending cavities, wherein the plurality of flexible sheets of each of the thermal cell arrays are formed of an electrically insulative material that is coated on one side with an electrically conductive material, a controller electrically coupled to the plurality of flexible sheets and configured to apply an electric potential difference between electrically conductive material of each pair of flexible sheets such that the electrically conductive coatings of the pair of flexible sheets attract each other to cause the thermal cell array to transition from an expanded state to a compressed state.

Variable thermal insulation assembly

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Victoria, Canada

Wesley Bowley