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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2012
Kenn S. Bates, Lakewood, CA (US);
Robert L. Peirce, Torrance, CA (US);
Kenn S. Bates, Lakewood, CA (US);
Robert L. Peirce, Torrance, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An infrared camouflage textile, including an emissivity layer on one side of the textile and adapted to provide at least two different infrared emissivities in a pattern; a heating layer between the emissivity and insulating layers; and a power source to the heating layer. The emissivity layer may include a display module including pixel elements displaying the pattern, each pixel element including a display segment; a plurality of first charged pigments in the display segment each having a first charge; a plurality of second charged pigments in the display segment each having a charge opposite the first charge; an electrical contact coupled to the display segment to receive signals creating an electric field in the display segment; at least one computer-readable storage medium including code to transmit signals to the display module that create an electric field in a pixel element form the pattern in the emissivity layer.