Patent ID: 9581737
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B29D,G02B

Claim:
1. A transparent optical device element comprising: at least one deformable lens body; a bendable transparent cover member attached to a surface of said at least one deformable lens body thereby providing mechanical stability to said at least one deformable lens body; actuators for shaping said bendable transparent cover member into a desired shape, said actuators located on a top surface of said bendable transparent cover member, said desired shape defined by a disposition pattern of said actuators and by a magnitude of respective applied voltages onto said disposition pattern of actuators, wherein said at least one deformable lens body comprises: (a) an elastic modulus larger than 300 Pa, thereby avoiding deformation due to gravitational forces in normal operation of said transparent optical device element; (b) a refractive index is above 1.35; (c) an absorbance in the visible range that is less than 10% per millimeter thickness of said deformable lens body; and said deformable lens body comprises a polymer network of cross-linked or partly cross-linked polymers; and further comprises a miscible oil or combination of oils, thereby increasing the refractive index of said polymer network of cross-linked or partly cross-linked polymers.