WO1997050071A1 - Twisting-cylinder display - Google Patents
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- Patent No. 5,344,594 Sheridon, "Method for the Fabrication of Multicolored Balls for a Twisting Ball Display”
- U.S. Patent No. 5,389,945 Sheridon,
- the invention pertains to visual displays and more particularly to twisting-ball displays, such as gyricon displays and the like.
- Gyricon displays also known by other names such as electrical twisting-ball displays or rotary ball displays, were first developed over twenty years ago. See U.S. Pats. No. 4,126,854 and No. 4,143,103, incorporated by reference hereinabove.
- An exemplary gyricon display 10 is shown in side view in FIG. 1A (PRIOR ART).
- Bichromal balls 1 are disposed in an elastomer substrate 2 that is swelled by a dielectric fluid creating cavities 3 in which the balls 1 are free to rotate.
- the balls 1 are electrically dipolar in the presence of the fluid and so are subject to rotation upon application of an electric field, as by matrix-addressable electrodes 4a, 4b.
- the electrode 4a closest to upper surface 5 is preferably transparent.
- FIG. 1 B An observer at I sees an image formed by the black and white pattern of the balls 1 as rotated to expose their black or white faces (hemispheres) to the upper surface 5 of substrate 2.
- FIG. 1 B A single one of bichromal balls 1, with black and white hemispheres 1a and 1b, is shown in FIG. 1 B (PRIOR ART).
- Gyricon displays have numerous advantages over conventional electrically addressable visual displays, such as LCD and CRT displays.
- they are suitable for viewing in ambient light, retain an image indefinitely in the absence of an applied electric field, and can be made lightweight, flexible, foldable, and with many other familiar and useful characteristics of ordinary writing paper.
- they are suitable both for display applications and for so-called electric paper or interactive paper applications, in which they serve as an electrically addressable, reuseable (and thus environmentally friendly) substitute for ordinary paper.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,389,945 incorporated by reference hereinabove.
- spherical particles e.g., bichromal balls
- spherical particles e.g., bichromal balls
- Spherical bichromal balls can be readily manufactured by a number of techniques. See the '098 and '594 patents, incorporated by reference hereinabove, in this regard.
- Spheres are symmetrical in three dimensions. This means that fabrication of a gyricon display sheet from spherical particles is straightforward. It is only necessary to disperse the balls throughout an elastomer substrate, which is then swelled with dielectric fluid to form spherical cavities around the balls.
- the spherical balls can be placed anywhere within the substrate, and at any orientation with respect to each other and with respect to the substrate surface. There is no need to align the balls with one another or with the substrate surface. Once in place, a ball is free to rotate about any axis within its cavity.
- the invention provides a gyricon display having cylindrical, rather than spherical, rotating elements.
- the elements can be bichromal cylinders, preferably aligned parallel to one another and packed close together in a monolayer.
- the close-packed monolayer configuration provides excellent brightness characteristics and relative ease of manufacture as compared with certain other high-brightness gyricon displays.
- the bichromal cylinders can be fabricated by techniques that will be disclosed.
- the substrate containing the cylinders can be fabricated with the swelled-elastomer techniques known from spherical-particle gyricon displays, with a simple agitation process step being used to align the cylinders within the sheeting material.
- a gyricon display is made with a close-packed monolayer of cylinders, wherein cylinders are placed, preferably in a rectangular packing arrangement, so that the surfaces of adjacent cylinders are as close to one another as possible.
- the light reflected from the inventive gyricon display is reflected substantially entirely from the monolayer of cylinders, so that lower layers are not needed.
- the areal coverage fraction obtainable with cylinders is greater than that obtainable with a single monolayer of uniform-diameter spheres.
- the invention provides a material comprising a substrate and a plurality of nonspheroidal (e.g., substantially cylindrical) optically anisotropic particles disposed in the substrate.
- a rotatable disposition of each particle is achievable while the particle is thus disposed in the substrate; for example, the particles can already be rotatable in the substrate, or can be rendered rotatable in the substrate by a nondestructive operation performed on the substrate.
- the substrate can be 5 made up of an elastomer that is expanded by application of a fluid thereto so as to render the particles rotatable therein.
- a particle, when in its rotatable disposition, is not attached to the substrate.
- a display apparatus can be constructed from a piece of the material together with means (such as an electrode assembly) for facilitating a rotation of at least one particle rotatably l o disposed in the substrate of the piece of material.
- the invention provides a material comprising a substrate having a surface and a plurality of nonspheroidal optically anisotropic particles disposed in the substrate substantially in a single layer.
- the particles e.g., cylinders
- the particles are of a substantially uniform size characterized
- Each particle has a center point, and each pair of nearest neighboring particles in the layer is characterized by an average distance D therebetween, the distance D being measured between particle center points.
- a rotatable disposition of each particle is achievable while the particle is thus disposed in the substrate.
- Particles are sufficiently closely packed with respect to one another in the layer such that the ratio of the union of the projected areas of the particles to the area of the substrate surface exceeds the areal coverage fraction that would be obtained from a comparably situated layer of spheres of diameter d disposed
- FIG. 1A is an exemplary gyricon display of the PRIOR ART, incorporating bichromal balls;
- FIG. 1B illustrates a spherical bichromal ball of the PRIOR ART
- FIG. 2 illustrates a bichromal cylinder, showing in particular the diameter and height thereof
- FIG. 3 illustrates bichromal cylinders in cavities in an elastomer substrate
- FIG. 4 illustrates bichromal cylinders arrayed in an ideal close- packed monolayer
- FIGS. 5A-5B are, respectively, side and top views of a gyricon display of the present invention in an embodiment wherein bichromal cylinders of unit (1 :1) aspect ratio are arrayed in a monolayer configuration;
- FIG. 6 is a side view of a gyricon display of the present invention in an alternative embodiment wherein the bichromal cylinders are arrayed in a multilayer configuration, with relatively large cavity size;
- FIGS. 7-8 illustrate top views of gyricon displays of the present invention in alternative embodiments in which the cylinders are, respectively, staggered in their alignment or randomly oriented;
- FIG. 9 illustrates a top views of gyricon display of the present invention in an alternative embodiment in which the cylinder aspect ratio is greater than 1:1 ;
- FIG. 10 illustrates a side view of a spinning-disk mechanism for fabrication of bichromal balls in the PRIOR ART
- FIG. 11 illustrates a top view of a spinning-disk mechanism for fabrication of bichromal cylinders of the invention
- FIG. 12 illustrates an alternative embodiment of the gyricon display of the invention wherein there is no elastomer or other cavity-containing substrate to retain the monolayer of cylinders in place.
- bichromal cylinders are arranged in a close-packed planar monolayer, as close to one another as possible, so as to cover the plane of the monolayer.
- the advantages of a close-packed monolayer display are discussed at length in copending, coassigned U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/713,935, entitled "Monolayer Gyricon Displays"; suffice it to say here that close-packed monolayer displays exhibit superior reflectance and brightness characteristics as compared with conventional gyricon displays, and that the more of the monolayer plane that is covered by the gyricon elements, the better the reflectance and the brighter the display.
- the inventive display reflects entirely from the topmost layer of bichromal balls and, more particularly, from the white hemispherical upper surfaces of the topmost layer of balls.
- the inventive display is constructed with a single close-packed monolayer of bichromal balls.”
- Serial No. 08/713,935 would entirely cover the plane with the monolayer of gyricon elements.
- the displays disclosed in Serial No. 08/713,935 are all based on spherical balls of the prior art. Inasmuch as a planar array of spheres cannot fully cover the plane, but must necessarily contain interstices, the best that can be achieved with a single population of uniform-diameter spherical elements is about 90.7 percent areal coverage, which is obtained with a hexagonal packing geometry. A second population of smaller balls can be added to fill in the gaps somewhat, but this complicates display fabrication and results in a tradeoff between light losses due to unfilled interstices and light losses due to absorption by the black hemispheres of the smaller interstitial balls.
- the present invention provides a close-packed monolayer gyricon display in which areal coverage can approach 100 percent, without any need for interstitial particles. It does so by using cylindrical rather than spherical bichromal elements.
- a rectangular planar monolayer array of cylinders can be constructed that entirely or almost entirely covers the plane. With the white faces of the cylinders exposed to an observer, little if any light can get through the layer.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a bichromal cylinder 20 suitable for use as a rotating element of the inventive gyricon display.
- Cylinder 20 has white face 5 21 and black face 22.
- Cylinder 20 is of height (or length) h and has diameter d.
- the aspect ratio of cylinder 20 is defined herein as the ratio h/d.
- cylinder 20 is electrically dipolar, with the dipole moment preferably oriented perpendicular to the plane separating the white and black portions of the cylinder and passing perpendicularly through the l o longitudinal axis of the cylinder.
- FIG. 3 illustrates how bichromal cylinders can be arranged in an elastomer substrate for use in the inventive display.
- a portion of a gyricon display 30 is shown.
- bichromal cylinders 31 are disposed in an elastomer substrate 32 that is swelled by a dielectric fluid (not shown)
- cavities 33 are preferably not much larger in diameter than cylinders 31 , so that cylinders 31 are constrained from rotating about their medial axes.
- Cylinders 31 are electrically dipolar in the presence of the dielectric fluid, and so are subject to rotation upon application of an 0 electric field. As shown, cylinders 31 can be rotated so as to expose either their white or black faces to an observer at I.
- FIG. 4 illustrates bichromal cylinders arrayed in a close-packed monolayer.
- a portion of a gyricon display 40 includes rows of bichromal cylinders 41a and 41b of uniform diameter. Cylinders 41a, 41b are disposed 5 in a monolayer between the upper and lower surfaces 44a, 44b of display 40. Preferably there is exactly one cylinder between any given point on upper surface 44a and the corresponding point directly beneath it on lower surface 44b.
- the cylinders are aligned end-to-end within the monolayer, the circular ends of cylinders 41a being aligned with the circular ends of cylinders 41b so that the longitudinal axis of each cylinder 41a is colinear with the longitudinal axis of its respective neigboring cylinder 41b.
- the cylinders are aligned side-to-side within the monolayer, so that the circumferences of neighboring cylinders 41a touch each other, and the circumferences of neighboring cylinders 41b likewise touch each other.
- the cylinders form a rectangular array, whose structure is observable from above (as by an observer at I) through surface 44a.
- FIGS. 3-4 depict their respective gyricon displays in simplified form, with details not pertinent to the discussion omitted for clarity.
- FIGS. 5A and 5B provide, respectively, more detailed side and top views of a gyricon display 50 of the invention in a specific embodiment.
- bichromal cylinders 51 of unit (that is, 1:1) aspect ratio are arrayed in a monolayer array having a rectangular packing geometry.
- bichromal cylinders 51 are placed as close to one another as possible in the monolayer.
- Cylinders 51 are situated in elastomer substrate 52, which is swelled by a dielectric fluid (not shown) creating cavities 53 in which the cylinders 51 are free to rotate.
- the cavities 53 are made as small as possible with respect to cylinders 51 , so that the cylinders nearly fill the cavities.
- cavities 53 are placed as close to one another as possible, so that the cavity walls are as thin as possible.
- cylinders 51 are of uniform diameter and situated at a uniform distance from upper surface 55. It will be appreciated that the arrangement of cylinders 51 and cavities 53 in display 50 minimizes both the center-to-center spacing and the surface-to-surface spacing between neighboring bichromal cylinders.
- Cylinders 51 are electrically dipolar in the presence of the dielectric fluid and so are subject to rotation upon application of an electric field, as by matrix-addressable electrodes 54a, 54b.
- the electrode 54a closest to upper surface 55 is preferably transparent.
- An observer at I sees an image formed by the black and white pattern of the cylinders 51 as rotated to expose their black or white faces to the upper surface 55 of substrate 52.
- the observer sees the white faces of cylinders such as cylinder 51a and the black faces of cylinders such as cylinder 51b.
- FIG. 5A reveals the monolayer construction of display 50.
- the top view of FIG. 5B illustrates the rectangular packing geometry of cylinders 51 in the monolayer.
- the cylinders 51 appear as squares visible through transparent upper surface 55.
- the centers of cylinders 51 form a square pattern, as shown by exemplary square S.
- the projected areas of cylinders 51 in the plane of surface 55 preferably cover as much of the total area of the plane of surface 55 as possible.
- cavities 53 preferably are made as small as possible, ideally no larger than the cylinders themselves (or as close to this ideal as is consistent with proper cylinder rotation).
- the maximum areal coverage theoretically possible with spherical bichromal balls is about 90.7 percent
- the maximum for bichromal cylinders is 100 percent.
- a gyricon display made from a close-packed monolayer of cylinders according to the invention can be made brighter than a gyricon display made from a close- packed monolayer of spherical balls.
- FIG. 6 shows a side view of a gyricon display 60 of the invention in an alternative embodiment.
- bichromal cylinders 61 are in a top layer 67 and additional lower layers (here represented by second layer 68).
- Elastomer substrate 62 is swelled by a dielectric fluid (not shown) creating cavities 63 in which the cylinders 61 are free to rotate.
- Cylinders 61 are electrically dipolar in the presence of the dielectric fluid and so are subject to rotation upon application of an electric field, as by matrix-addressable electrodes 64a, 64b.
- the electrode 64a closest to upper surface 65 is preferably transparent.
- An observer at I sees an image formed by the black and white pattern of the cylinders 61 as rotated to expose their black or white faces to the upper surface 65 of substrate 62.
- the top layer 67 can be made close-packed, with packing geometry and reflectance characteristics similar to those of the close-packed monolayer of cylinders 51 in display 50.
- cavities 63 are made as small as possible with respect to cylinders 61 , and particularly with respect to cylinders in top layer 67, so that these cylinders nearly fill the cavities.
- cavities 63 are placed as close to one another as possible, so that the cavity walls are as thin as possible.
- cylinders in top layer 67 are of uniform diameter and are situated at a uniform distance from upper surface 65.
- top layer 67 is close-packed, almost all the light reflected from display 60 so as to be observable to an observer at I is reflected from the white faces of cylinders in top layer 67. At least for top layer 67, the arrangement of cylinders 61 and cavities 63 in display 60 minimizes both the center-to-center spacing and the surface-to-surface spacing between neighboring bichromal cylinders. Cylinders in the lower layers (such as layer 68) can also be close-packed in order to reduce overall display thickness.
- a monolayer display such as display 50 of FIGS. 5A- 5B
- a thicker display such as display 60 of FIG. 6.
- a thinner display can operate with a lower drive voltage, which affords concomittant advantages such as reduced power consumption, improved user safety, and the possibility of less expensive drive electronics.
- a thinner display can offer better resolution than a thicker one, due to reduced fringing fields between adjacent black and white pixels.
- a thicker display offers fringing fields a greater volume in which to develop, and bichromal cylinders caught in the fringing fields are partially but not fully rotated so that they present a mix of black and white to the observer. Consequently, the display appears gray in the fringing field regions.
- the thin display has minimal fringing fields, and so provides a sharp demarcation between adjacent black and white pixels.
- FIG. 7 illustrates a top view of gyricon display 70 of the present invention in an alternative embodiment in which neighboring rows a, b of cylinders 71 are staggered with respect to one another. That is, the cylinders in rows a are aligned end-to-end with each other, as are the cylinders in alternate rows b, but the cylinders in rows a are not aligned side-to-side with those in rows b.
- the arrangement of FIG. 7 covers the plane as completely as the arrangement of FIG. 5B; however, the arrangement of FIG. 5B can be preferable, because this arrangement produces a well-defined rectangular array of pixels for pixels as small as a single cylinder.
- FIG. 8 illustrates a top view of gyricon display 80 of the present invention in an alternative embodiments in which cylinders 81 are in random orientations with respect to one another. That is, the longitudinal axes of cylinders 81 are not parallel to one another. This arrangement of cylinders covers the plane less completely than the arrangements shown in FIG. 5B and FIG. 7, and so is less preferable from the standpoint of maximizing display reflectance.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a top views of gyricon display 90 of the present invention in an alternative embodiment in which the aspect ratio of the cylinders 91 is greater than 1:1.
- This alternative embodiment covers the plane comparably with the arrangements of FIG. 5B and FIG. 7. It can be useful, for example, in situations where different display resolutions are desired in the x- and y- dimensions (e.g., a display having a resolution of 1200 by 300 dots per inch). Cylinder Fabrication Techniques
- FIG. 10 illustrates a side view of a spinning-disk mechanism 100 for fabrication of bichromal spherical balls.
- Mechanism 100 is equivalent to the "spinning disc configuration 50" disclosed in the '098 patent incorporated by reference hereinabove; see FIG. 4 therein and the accompanying description at col. 4, line 25 to col. 5, line 7.
- the spinning disk mechanism was used in conjunction with low-viscosity hardenable liquids.
- Low viscosity was considered necessary to ensure the formation of good-quality bichromal spheres; if viscosity was too high, the ligaments streaming off the disk would freeze in place instead of fragmenting into balls as desired.
- the black and white pigmented liquids are delivered...in a heated, molten state...so that they flow freely and do not harden prematurely, i.e., long enough to prevent the ligaments from freezing."
- the spinning disk mechansm is used in conjunction with high-viscosity hardenable liquids. These liquids do, indeed, “freeze” (harden) in place, the very result not desired in the prior art.
- the frozen ligaments that are considered undesirable for making bichromal spheres can be used to make bichromal cylinders.
- FIG. 11 illustrates this.
- a spinning disk 110 shown here in a top view, is used according to the technique of the '098 patent to form bichromal ligaments, but with high-viscosity hardenable white and black liquids being used in place of the low-viscosity liquids of the prior art.
- the resulting ligaments 115 harden into fine bichromal filaments (roughly analogous to the way in which molten sugar hardens into filaments when spun in a cotton- candy machine).
- the filaments can be combed or otherwise aligned and then cut into even lengths, as with a tungsten carbide knife or a laser, to produce the desired bichromal cylinders. End-to-end and side-to-side alignment of the cut cylinders can be achieved by precise alignment of the filament ends on the working surface where the cutting takes place; for example, if the cylinders are to have aspect ratio 1 :1 and diameter 100 microns, then the filament ends can be aligned with one another to within a tolerance on the order of 5 to 10 microns.
- each bichromal cylinder is situated in a cavity.
- the cavities are preferably made as small and as close together as possible.
- a gyricon display can be constructed without elastomer and without cavities.
- the bichromal cylinders are placed directly in the dielectric fluid.
- the cylinders and the dielectric fluid are then sandwiched between two retaining members (e.g., between the addressing electrodes).
- the packing geometry can closely approach, or even achieve, the ideal close-packed monolayer geometry shown in FIG. 4.
- FIG. 12 illustrates a side view of a no-cavities gyricon display.
- a monolayer of bichromal cylinders 1201 of uniform diameter is situated in dielectric fluid 1209 between matrix-addressable electrodes 1204a, 1204b.
- cylinders 1201 of unit aspect ratio are arranged in a rectangular array, aligned end-to-end and side-to-side within the monolayer and packed as close together as is possible consistent with proper cylinder rotation.
- Cylinders 1201 are electrically dipolar in the presence of dielectric fluid 1209 and so are subject to rotation upon application of an electric field, as by electrodes 1204a, 1204b.
- the electrode 1204a closest to upper surface 1205 is preferably transparent.
- Electrodes 1204a, 1204b serve both to address cylinders 1201 and to retain cylinders 1201 and fluid 1209 in place.
- the spacing between electrodes 1204a, 1204b is as close to the diameter of cylinders 1201 as is possible consistent with proper cylinder rotation.
- Cylinders 1201 and fluid 1209 can be sealed in display 1200, for example by seals at either end of the display (not shown). The close packing of cylinders 1201 in the monolayer, together with the close spacing of the electrodes 1204a, 1204b, ensures that cylinders 1201 do not settle, migrate, or otherwise escape from their respective positions in the monolayer.
- a new gyricon display based on cylindrical elements instead of spherical elements has been described. This new display makes possible a close-packed monolayer providing nearly 100 percent areal coverage. Such a display provides superior reflectance and brightness, and requires no interstitial particles.
- the electrical anisotropy of a gyricon cylinder need not be based on zeta potential. It is sufficient that there is an electrical dipole moment associated with the cylinder, the dipole moment being oriented with respect to the long axis of the cylinder in such a way as to facilitate a useful rotation of the cylinder in the presence of an applied external electric field.
- a gyricon cylinder can have an electrical monopole moment in addition to its electrical dipole moment, as for example when the dipole moment arises from a separation of two positive charges of different magnitudes, the resulting charge distribution being equivalent to a positive electrical monopole superposed with a electrical dipole.
- the optical anisotropy of a gyricon cylinder need not be based on black and white.
- bichromal cylinders having hemispheres of two different colors, e.g. red and blue, can be used.
- cylinders that are black in one hemisphere and mirrored in the other might be used for some applications.
- various optical properties can vary as 5 different aspects of a gyricon cylinder are presented to an observer, including (but not limited to) light scattering and light reflection in one or more regions of the spectrum.
- the gyricon cylinders can be used to modulate light in a wide variety of ways.
- the incident light that encounters a gyricon display need not be restricted to visible light.
- the incident "light" can be, for example, infrared light or ultraviolet light, and such light can be modulated by the gyricon display.
- the plane of a monolayer can be defined, for example, in a locally planar neighborhood that includes the gyricon cylinder or cylinders of interest. Also, it will further be apprecated that in practice the monolayer can vary somewhat from what has been
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