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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5838506 | Method for producing replica mirror for image recording apparatus A method for producing a replica mirror for use in an image-forming apparatus is described. The process includes a step where a mirror base plate including a mirror surface inclined with respect to the scanning axis in the image-forming apparatus is prepa... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5825565 | Reflector In order to produce lightweight mirror structures or other reflecting components, preformed silicon elements of sufficient wall thickness are applied to a CFC or CMC substrate structure with the dimensions of the component to be produced, at a temperature... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5796532 | Back mirror and method for manufacturing the same A back mirror has plural mirror surface areas of different curvatures disposed side by side or plural mirror surface areas disposed side by side to form discontinuous planes. The back mirror includes a dividing line having a light diffusion effect formed ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5784212 | Method of making a support post for a micromechanical device A support pillar 426 for use with a micromechanical device, particularly a digital micromirror device, comprising a pillar material 422 supported by a substrate 400 and covered with a metal layer 406. The support pillar 426 is fabricated by depositing a l... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5777810 | Reinforced signal mirror A signal mirror assembly has a laminated sandwich construction and includes a transparent center sighting disk. The disk interconnects a relatively thick plastic front sheet with a thin rear plastic sheet to provide enhanced structural integrity and to el... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5764415 | Coatings on glass A method of producing front surface mirrors comprising depositing onto a hot ribbon of low transmissivity glass during the production process a low transmissivity reflecting coating whereby the mirrors have a transmissivity through the coated glass of up ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5760981 | Aluminum reflector with a composite reflectivity-enhancing surface layer Reflector having a composite reflectivity enhancing layer as reflecting surface layer on a reflector body where the said composite has a sandwich structure with an aluminum layer facing the reflector body, an outer layer, the HI-layer, with a refractive i... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5757564 | Coatings on glass A mirror assembly comprising a glass substrate, a low transmissivity reflecting coating on the substrate and an opacifying member which is assembled adjacent to the glass substrate for a front surface mirror or the reflecting coating for a back surface mi... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5751474 | High-reflection silver mirror An environmentally stable silver mirror having very high reflection values over a large spectral range comprises a silver layer disposed on a substrate, which is covered by a zinc sulfide layer. So that the sulphur being set free during the application or... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5751503 | Light-weight reflector facet A light weight arcuate reflector facet, for a solar concentrator comprises a thin mirrored glass sheet such as a microsheet, and a backing sheet or substrate, the glass sheet being bonded to the backing sheet, with the backing sheet providing a smooth sur... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5751489 | Elemental semiconductor mirror for vehicles A elemental mirror for vehicles having a luminous reflectance of at least about 30% includes a substrate coated with a thin layer of elemental semiconductor having an index of refraction of at least 3 and an optical thickness of at least about 275 angstro... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5717532 | Reflection-type compound optical elements Reflection-type compound optical elements include a substrate, an aspherical resin layer and a high reflectance layer. The substrate, the aspherical layer and the high reflectance layer are laminated in an optional order to form a laminate structure.... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5703728 | Support post architecture for micromechanical devices A support pillar 426 for use with a micromechanical device, particularly a digital micromirror device, comprising a pillar material 422 supported by a substrate 400 and covered with a metal layer 406. The support pillar 426 is fabricated by depositing a l... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5687263 | Optical RF bandpass filter and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing an optical RF bandpass filter comprises the st of: (1) mounting an optical fiber having first and second ends in a fiber support structure having first and second surfaces so that the first end is exposed at the first surface a... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5671097 | Graffiti resistant mirror A mirror installation suitable for mounting on a wall, and having a wall mounting plate including a reflector surface, a transparent reflector surface protection sheet, positioning units carried on the wall plate for positioning the transparent sheet over... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5650881 | Support post architecture for micromechanical devices A support pillar 426 for use with a micromechanical device, particularly a digital micromirror device, comprising a pillar material 422 supported by a substrate 400 and covered with a metal layer 406. The support pillar 426 is fabricated by depositing a l... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5646792 | Long-life self-renewing solar reflector stack A long-life solar reflector includes a solar collector substrate and a base layer bonded to a solar collector substrate. The first layer includes a first reflective layer and a first acrylic or transparent polymer layer covering the first reflective layer... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5640282 | Base body of reflecting mirror and method for preparing the same A light-weight base body of a reflecting mirror, such as those used in reflecting astronomical telescopes, is proposed which is made from fused silica glass or high-silica glass and is advantageous in respect of the excellent thermal and mechanical stabil... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5623375 | International dielectric mirror and production process for such a mirror The present invention relates to an interferential or interference dielectric mirror and to its production process. The mirror includes a ground, planar substrate, whose surface has been replicated with a thermal plastic resin, the substrate being covered... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5617262 | Base body of reflecting mirror and method for preparing the same A light-weight base body of a reflecting mirror, such as those used in reflecting astronomical telescopes, is proposed which is made from fused silica glass or high-silica glass and is advantageous in respect of the excellent thermal and mechanical stabil... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5600453 | Composite framed mirror and apparatus and method for making same Apparatus for making a framed mirror includes a conveyor for moving a frame with the mirror seated therein to a film application and laminating station and a stop downstream of the laminating station. A cutter station serves the film applied from a roll s... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5592338 | Grazing incidence co-axial and confocal Grazing incidence co-axial and confocal mirrors, used in particular for X-ray telescopes for astronomic observations, having a parabola/hyperbola double-cone truncated-cone structure, with polynomial sections or other geometric configurations, and consist... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5583704 | Surface reflecting mirror having a surface reflecting multilayer film A high-reflectivity surface reflecting mirror is provided by sequentially forming, on a resin substrate, a silicon dioxide first under layer, a chromium sulfide second under layer, a silver reflecting layer and protective layers. According to a second asp... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5576884 | Base body of reflecting mirror and method for preparing the same A light-weight base body of a reflecting mirror, such as those used in reflecting astronomical telescopes, is proposed which is made from fused silica glass or high-silica glass and is advantageous in respect of the excellent thermal and mechanical stabil... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5566031 | Vehicle rear view mirror with silicone gel as an adhesive A vehicle rear view mirror comprising a mirror plate which is provided with a reflection layer and, on the surface facing the viewer of the mirror, is provided with a scratch-resistant protective layer. An adhesive layer which is essentially made of a sil... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5535056 | Method for making elemental semiconductor mirror for vehicles A elemental mirror for vehicles having a luminous reflectance of at least about 30% includes a substrate coated with a thin layer of elemental semiconductor having an index of refraction of at least 3 and an optical thickness of at least about 275 angstro... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5519542 | Coating composition for preparing back coating film of mirror The invention relates to a coating composition for preparing a back coating film of a mirror. The mirror has a glass substrate, a silver mirror film formed on a back surface of the glass substrate, a metallic protective film formed on the silver mirror fi... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5483386 | Composite framed mirror and method for making same A framed mirror includes a frame with a peripheral portion having front and rear faces and defining an opening extending therethrough. The peripheral portion of the frame has a recess in the rear surface thereof providing a shoulder extending about the op... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5464693 | Structure for installing mirror base on glass plate and method for installing mirror base on glass plate This invention relates to a mirror base-installing structure for installing a mirror base on the surface of a glass plate, characterized in that said mirror base is bonded to the surface of said glass plate with a film-like or sheet-like heat-curable adhe... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5452139 | Security mirror construction with readily replaceable mirror panels A security mirror construction with a mirror panel which can only be replaced by one having generally authorized access to the mirror construction and where the mirror panel itself is generally isolated so that damage to the mirror panel by vandalism or o... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5448418 | Mirror for SOR A mirror for SOR includes a base (1) made of a heat resistant ceramic material having a surface, a first SiC coating (2, 3) formed on the surface of the base (1), which has a first smoothed surface, and a second SiC coating (4, 5) formed on the first smoo... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5428483 | Reflecting mirror This invention is to provide a lightweight, inexpensive reflecting mirror. A reflecting layer is formed on the front surface of a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic substrate. An reflecting mirror includes a first substrate consisting of a carbon fiber-reinf... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5424876 | Surface reflecting mirror having a silicon dioxide under layer A high-reflectivity surface reflecting mirror is provided by sequentially forming, on a resin substrate, a silicon dioxide first under layer, a chromium sulfide second under layer, a silver reflecting layer and protective layers. According to a second asp... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5375015 | Heat resisting reflection mirror The reflection mirror of this invention is considered an improvement over the conventional art in that it has a plating means that smoothes the inner surface of the reflection mirror body and a means for intercepting the heat of the light and that the mir... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5361172 | Durable metallized polymer mirror A metallized polymer mirror construction having improved durability against delamination and tunneling, comprising: an outer layer of polymeric material; a metal oxide layer underlying the outer layer of polymeric material; a silver reflective layer under... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5355244 | Optical scanner for reducing shading In an optical scanner for reducing shading, a semiconductor laser or a semiconductor laser array is set to a light source and a laser beam from the light source is deflected by a light deflector having a deflecting reflecting face and is converged by a le... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5300487 | Nonspecular reflector with diffusely reflecting superconductor and protection coating A reflector has a body of a ceramic oxide superconductive material whose surface is treated to be diffusively reflective and is coated with diamond-like carbon or magnesium fluoride.... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5262894 | Multicomponent, multilayer polymeric reflective bodies A multicomponent, multilayered, highly reflective polymeric body which is thermoformable and capable of being fabricated into films, sheets and a variety of parts while maintaining a uniform reflective appearance is provided. The reflective polymeric body... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5247395 | Thin film mirror A thin plastic sheet having a reflective material on one surface. Sandwiching the reflective layer is an environmental protective coating of plastic resin. In the preferred embodiment, this protective coating also functions as an adhesive for face bonding... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5227921 | Light-weighted optical assembly A light-weighted optical assembly is provided. The light-weighted optical assembly of the invention is comprised of two members. Each member is constructed of a section and a plurality of ribs extending from the section and comprises one-half of the total... | 07/13/1993 |
