US 11,691,364 B2
Methods of manufacturing liquid lenses
Alejandro Aguilar, Painted Post, NY (US); Tetyana Buchholz, Elmira, NY (US); Raymond Charles Cady, Horseheads, NY (US); Daniel Warren Hawtof, Corning, NY (US); Shawn Michael O'Malley, Horseheads, NY (US); and Jason Daniel Steadman, Rochester, NY (US)
Assigned to CORNING INCORPORATED, Corning, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/56,561
Filed by CORNING INCORPORATED, Corning, NY (US)
PCT Filed May 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/033426
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/226721, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/674,926, filed on May 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0206128 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. B29D 11/00 (2006.01); G02B 26/00 (2006.01)
CPC B29D 11/00009 (2013.01) [G02B 26/005 (2013.01); B29K 2995/0093 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of forming a liquid lens, comprising the steps of:
positioning a first substrate defining a hole over a second substrate, wherein a cavity is defined within the second substrate and aligned with the hole;
dispensing a second liquid into the cavity defined within the second substrate;
capping the second liquid with a first liquid dispensed through the hole, wherein the first liquid and the second liquid have different refractive indices than each other; and
translating at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate such that the hole is not aligned with the cavity.