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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1994
Claude Michel, Asnieres, FR;
Jean-Pierre Le Pesant, Gif S/Yvette, FR;
Thomson-CSF, Puteaux, FR;
Abstract
Material made up of a thin layer between two surfaces, a first and a second, to be used as the third layer of a transparent goggles face, the first layer being a screen and the second layer being a thickness layer, remarkable in that the material consists of a formable transparent polymer matrix having a refractive index and containing micro-cavities in the form of lenses, the micro-cavities being made from a transparent material different from that of the matrix, the refractive index of the material of the micro-cavities changing under the influence of an electric field applied across it, for a first field value the refractive index being equal to that of the matrix, and for a second field value being greater than that of the matrix, a pair of electrodes being associated with each micro-cavity.