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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2011
Dirk DE Bruyker, San Jose, CA (US);
David Eric Schwartz, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ricardo Santos Roque, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sean Roark Garner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew D. Eisaman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Joseph Robert Johnson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dirk De Bruyker, San Jose, CA (US);
David Eric Schwartz, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ricardo Santos Roque, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sean Roark Garner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew D. Eisaman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Joseph Robert Johnson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A thermal switch has a first substrate, a thermally conductive region on the first substrate, a thermally insulative region on the first substrate adjacent the thermally conductive region, a second substrate arranged adjacent the first substrate, a droplet of thermally conductive liquid between the first and second substrate adjacent the thermally conductive region and the thermally insulative region, and an actuator arranged on one of the first or second substrates to cause the droplet to move between the thermally conductive region and the thermally insulative region on the first substrate.