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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2020
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tianshu Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Yigit Menguc, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert Manson, Seattle, WA (US);
Shawn Reese, Renton, WA (US);
Tristan Thomas Trutna, Seattle, WA (US);
Erik Samuel Roby, Redmond, WA (US);
Katherine Healy, Redmond, WA (US);
Nicholas Colonnese, Kirkland, WA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An electrostatic zipping actuator includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlying the primary electrode, a dielectric layer located between and abutting at least a portion of the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, and a dielectric fluid disposed at least at a junction between the dielectric layer and one of the electrodes, where an average total thickness of the dielectric layer is less than approximately 10 micrometers.