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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
May. 24, 1993
Charles G Kalt, North Adams, MA (US);
Mark S Slater, Adams, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Inventive electromagnetic-wave-modulating capacitors with movable electrodes are low-cost, low-energy, reliable and fast-acting elements for employment in highly transparent, conductive fixed electrodes and are incorporated, among others, in reflective display pixels for large and small-scale video displays, including full-color displays where multiple such capacitors are aligned in a single pixel. Further embodiments, not necessarily with a transparent electrode, are assemblable into array antennas deployable in outer space; provide digitally controllable or responsive such variable capacitors; and in mechanically active applications can be constituted as accelerometers, or in microrobotics. Constructions with ultra-thin electrodes have special advantages.