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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2020
Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kenneth Diest, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew John Ouderkirk, Redmond, MA (US);
Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Seattle, WA (US);
Katherine Marie Smyth, Seattle, WA (US);
Spencer Allan Wells, Seattle, WA (US);
Tingling Rao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sheng Ye, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Schmitt, Needham, MA (US);
Nagi Elabbasi, Framingham, MA (US);
Bachir Ahmed Abeid, Brighton, MA (US);
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An actuator assembly includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, and an electroactive polymer layer disposed between the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, where the electroactive polymer layer includes a non-vertical (e.g., sloped) sidewall with respect to a major surface of at least one of the electrodes. The electroactive polymer layer may be characterized by a non-axisymmetric shape with respect to an axis that is oriented orthogonal to an electrode major surface.