{"id":44,"date":"2021-04-13T01:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-03-18T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T01:38:53","slug":"disney-invents-a-working-lightsaber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Disney Invents a Working Lightsaber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars fans (and possibly non-Star Wars fans) rejoice as Disney unveils a working lightsaber at an April 8, 2021 presentation.<\/p>\n

Well, what exactly does a “working” lightsaber really mean? Does it cut through metal doors and walls? No, but it does have an illuminated blade that extends and retracts with the simple push of a button.<\/p>\n

So, how does it work? The details of the lightsaber are described in\u00a0U.S. Patent No. 10,065,127<\/a>\u00a0titled “Sword Device with Retractable, Internally Illuminated Blade,” but essentially it has a string of flexible LEDs mounted onto a motorized spool inside a frame. Two outer spools of a translucent material (think of two translucent tape measures) lie flat when fully wound, but curve when extended. The two translucent spools surround the flexible LEDs forming a single beam of light when the lightsaber is extended.<\/p>\n

Below are some figures from Disney’s lightsaber patent.<\/p>\n

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You can also find more information (including animations on how the lightsaber works)\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information about our patent services, visit our patent application page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star Wars fans (and possibly non-Star Wars fans) rejoice as Disney unveils a working lightsaber at an April 8, 2021 presentation. Well, what exactly does a “working” lightsaber really mean? Does it cut through metal doors and walls? No, but it does have an illuminated blade that extends and retracts with the simple push of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-technology","category-news","category-patents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021_04_13-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021_04_13-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Benjamin M. Hanrahan","author_link":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}