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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2016
Vg Smartglass, Llc, Chicago, IL (US);
Ryan Tatzel, Syosset, NY (US);
Michael Stacey, Chicago, IL (US);
Abhiroop Chattopadhyay, Chicago, IL (US);
VG SMARTGLASS, LLC, Jupiter, FL (US);
Abstract
A variable transmission window includes a patterned first polarizer and an opposing patterned second polarizer. The first polarizer includes an optically transmissive first substrate; alternating first and second domains attached to the first substrate, the first domains having a polarization axis that is perpendicular to a polarization axis of the second domains; and blackout bars configured to block visible light, each blackout bar overlapping opposing edge regions of adjacent corresponding first and second domains. The second polarizer includes an optically transmissive second substrate; and alternating third and fourth domains attached to the second substrate, the third domains having a polarization axis that is perpendicular to a polarization axis of the fourth domains. The second polarizer may also include blackout bars overlapping opposing edge regions of adjacent corresponding third and fourth domains.