INVENTION DISCLOSURE
Kent
Displays, Inc.
343
Portage Blvd.,
Kent
OH 44240
Date: May 8, 2008
1. Title
of Invention:
Electronic Writing Tablet for
Automobile and Truck Sun Visors
2. Names
of Inventor:
William Manning of Manning Ventures (document
prepared by Bill Doane)
3. Background
of Invention:
The cell phone is often used when
in the automobile and truck. It is used
to conduct business as well as pleasure.
However, there are many instances where the cell phone user needs to
record information such as a phone number, address, name or other simple piece
of information. While in an automobile
it is not convenient have available paper and pen to write down the
information. More significantly, one
often does not have two have two hands available to do so. Either the cell phone occupies one hand or,
in the case of hands-free cell phones, while the automobile is in operation one
hand is required for the steering wheel.
4. Description
of Invention:
Kent Displays, Inc. has developed an electronic tablet technology, the
eTablet, on which images can be written with a pointed stylus such as a finger
nail or any pointed stylus. In fact the
tablet can be designed so that one can write with a finger tip. The technology makes use of bistable
cholesteric materials where by the written image is retained on the eTablet
indefinitely until eras...
