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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157391 | Methods of forming retroflective structures having a helical geometry Retroreflective structures and methods of forming the same comprise a body of material extending along a helical path about a longitudinal axis and a plurality of retroreflective optical elements positioned along the helical path of the body of material, and constru... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8083359 | Corner cube retroreflector mount A retroreflector adapted to be mounted to a motor including a first, second, and third petal having a mutually perpendicular first, second, and third reflective surface that form a retroreflective surface. A base is directly connected to at least one of the first, s... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8033671 | Retroreflective structures having a helical geometry Retroreflective structures and methods of forming the same comprise a body of material extending along a helical path about a longitudinal axis and a plurality of retroreflective optical elements positioned along the helical path of the body of material, and constru... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7950812 | Shutters for infra red communication at moderate bandwidths A modulating corner-cube retroreflector for remote communications is disclosed. The modulating corner-cube retroreflector includes a solid retroreflector with a front surface and three mutually perpendicular surfaces: a first surface, a second surface and a third su... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7926959 | Beam conditioning to reduce spatial coherence Methods and apparatus relating to electromagnetic beam (e.g., laser beam) conditioning are described. In an embodiment, electromagnetic beam conditioning may be performed utilizing reflectors to temporally differentiate electromagnetic beam subsections and sub-beams... | 04/19/2011 |
| RE41877 | Multidirectional retroreflectors Multidirectional retroreflectors and methods of reflecting light beams from multiple directions are provided. The multidirectional retroreflectors utilize a four-mirror retroreflector with a common virtual reflection point. ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7722196 | Plastic injection of lenses with optical elements and/or retroreflecting prisms that are separated from each other A moulding process to manufacture a moulded piece having multiple individual optical elements with the same or different dimensions. This is achieved by using a multicolour injection process as well as a multidrop injection manifold. In the first step, the optical e... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722197 | Lamina comprising cube corner elements and retroreflective sheeting The present disclosure is directed to lamina(e) comprising cube corner elements, a tool comprising an assembly of laminae and replicas thereof. The disclosure further relates to retroreflective sheeting. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7717575 | Light-reflecting triple, reflector, as well as method for recognizing an object The invention relates to a triple prism which reflects light, a reflector and to a method for recognizing an object. A reflective photoelectric barrier sends light to a reflector. The reflector does not answer with the form of the obtained light signal, but with a d... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7712904 | Structured surface articles containing geometric structures with compound faces and methods for making same A prepared substrate including an array of cube corner cavities and protrusions interspersed between the cube corner cavities is described herein. ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7708413 | Corner cube chemical-biological agent sensor A sensing system comprises a corner-cube reflector that has three reflective surfaces wherein at least one of the reflective surfaces is a surface of a bimaterial cantilever. The reflective surface of the bimaterial cantilever undergoes a change between a substantia... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7513629 | Cube corner retroreflector with limited range Retroreflective articles having cube corner elements are disclosed, with the dihedral angle errors of the cube corner elements selected to limit the visibility range of the retroreflective article. Also disclosed are methods for making the cube corner elements and t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7484857 | Light modulating mirror device and array A deformable reflector includes a plurality of MEMS devices, each having an electrode membrane having a reflective surface thereon, a flat surface, and a pulldown electrode formed in the flat substrate. The electrode membrane has substantially a same flatness of the... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7475997 | Reflective display device with high retroreflectivity A reflective display includes a retroreflective layer and a modulation layer, which is provided closer to a viewer than the retroreflective layer is and which is switchable between first and second states with mutually different optical characteristics. The retroref... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7458693 | Retroreflective elements and articles The present invention relates to retroreflective elements and retroreflective articles such as pavement markings comprising retroreflective elements, methods of making retroreflective elements, and laminates. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7429112 | Retro-reflector assembly and opacity monitor incorporating same A retro-reflector assembly (1) for incorporating in an opacity monitor, includes several small corner-cube prisms (2) of cylindrical section. The invention also includes an opacity monitor incorporating a retro-reflector assembly as defined above. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7425075 | Optical reflecting material A reflecting plate material, comprises a urethane plate having first and second opposite major surfaces. The first major surface is planar and the second major surface is formed with a plurality of cube corners each one of which has a plurality of facets. The facets... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422334 | Lamina comprising cube corner elements and retroreflective sheeting The present invention is directed to lamina(e) comprising cube corner elements, a tool comprising an assembly of laminae and replicas thereof. The invention further relates to retroreflective sheeting. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7413316 | Retroreflective elements and articles The present invention relates to retroreflective elements and retroreflective articles such as pavement markings comprising retroreflective elements, methods of making retroreflective elements, and laminates. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| RE40455 | Retroreflective articles having microcubes, and tools and methods for forming microcubes A method for tooling a pattern of retroreflective microcubes, which pattern can be subdivided into smaller increments within which there are straight line tooling paths, none of which pass through an otherwise solid part of the incremental pattern. The tooling paths... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7396579 | Fluorescent red-orange retroreflective sheeting A fluorescent red-orange retroreflective article includes a polymeric matrix and at least one fluorescent dye added in an amount that provides the article with a red-orange color under daytime lighting conditions. The article also includes cube corner elements dispo... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7387393 | Methods for producing low-visibility retroreflective visual tags A process for producing a low-visibility retroreflective visual tag, which can be used to identify and/or determine the position of an object. This process involves placing an infra-red-blocking material over a retroreflective substrate to form the low-visibility re... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384161 | Structured surface articles containing geometric structures with compound faces and methods for making same A process for making molds for retroreflective sheeting and like articles includes making a substrate having a structured surface of geometric structures such as cube corner elements. The structured surface is in one embodiment partially replicated from a previous g... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374296 | Reflective corner cube array The present invention relates to vibration detection devices. In one embodiment a corner reflective array is provided. The corner reflective array includes at least one corner cube. Each corner cube includes three mutually perpendicular reflective surfaces that inte... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374297 | Conformable retroreflective film structure The present invention includes conformable retroreflective structures. In some embodiments, the conformable retroreflective structures are also shrink resistant. The conformable retroreflective structures include a transparent plasticized polyvinyl chloride film hav... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371339 | Prismatic retroreflector having a multi-plane facet A retroreflective structure includes a retroreflective sheeting having an array of transparent prisms formed into pairs of prisms. Each prism includes a base aperture and three intersecting lateral faces meeting at an apex. Each of the lateral faces includes a base ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370981 | Cube corner retroreflector with limited range Retroreflective articles having cube corner elements are disclosed, with the dihedral angle errors of the cube corner elements selected to limit the visibility range of the retroreflective article. Also disclosed are methods for making the cube corner elements and t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369306 | Image reversion system, ancillary ophthalmoscopy module and surgical microscope The invention relates to an image reversion system (500) which enables an image reversion and beam transposition of a plurality of observation beam paths (503a, 503b, 504a and 504b) to be carried out sim... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360907 | Micro corner cube array, method of making the micro corner cube array, and display device A method of making a micro corner cube array includes the steps of: providing a substrate, at least a surface portion of which consists of cubic single crystals and which has a surface that is substantially parallel to {111} planes of the crystals; and dry-et... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347571 | Prismatic retroreflective article with fluorine- or silicon-containing prisms A prismatic retroreflective article comprising a transparent polymeric body portion having an elastic modulus less than about 13×108 pascals, and a layer of internally reflecting open air-exposed cube-corner optical elements having an elastic modulus gre... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345804 | Dynamic optical tag communicator and system using corner cube modulating retroreflector In some embodiments, a dynamic optical tag communication system is provided which includes high and low index CCR, both having a modulator, such as TCFP-MQWs on a first side of the CCR configured to modulate in a first temperature range, and a modulator on a second ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7331311 | Abrasion resistant omnidirectionally reflective rope A flexible abrasion resistant omnidirectionally reflective rope has a central braided high strength core comprising gel fiber or p-aramid fibers that is surrounded by cylindrically braided sleeve of reflective strips composed of narrow width reflective strips that c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329447 | Retroreflective sheeting with controlled cap-Y A retroreflective laminate sheeting has a viewing surface having a retroreflective layer which has a first cap-Y value of a viewing surface side thereof. A plurality of discrete pigmented indicia are disposed on the viewing surface side of the retroreflective layer.... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324733 | Frameless hollow roof mirror and method of manufacture The present invention relates to optical components for reversing and inverting images, and to methods of manufacturing them accurately, robustly and cost-effectively. The method includes optical contact bonding a first optical element and a second optical element a... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314284 | Retroreflection sheeting and film for use in retroreflection sheeting An object of the present invention is to provide a retroreflective sheeting that exhibits proper retroreflection even at a small incident angle with no or less halation, and has superior incident angularities and superior direction characteristics, as well as a film... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7303319 | Headlight lens for a motor vehicle headlight The present invention relates to a headlight lens for a vehicle headlight having a light source, in particular for a motor vehicle headlight, as well as a vehicle headlight, in particular a motor vehicle headlight, having a light source and a headlight lens. The hea... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7299991 | Reflective members for use in encoder systems Reflective members for use in encoder systems are provided. One embodiment comprises a reflective member comprising a reflective layer, at least another layer, and a reflective pattern comprising a first portion having a first reflective property and a second portio... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293884 | Corner cube reflector, method of making the reflector and reflective display device including the reflector A corner cube reflector includes a two-dimensional arrangement of unit elements. The unit elements are arranged at a pitch of 200 μm or less. As viewed in a direction from which incoming light is coming, each unit element has a peak point and a bottom point. A peak... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7278747 | Lighting and/or signalling device with light guide The invention comprises a lighting and/or signalling device in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising: at least one light source illuminating a light guide, part of whose surface has locally diffusing and/or reflective areas able to diffuse/reflect towards the i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276990 | Single-pole multi-throw switch having low parasitic reactance, and an antenna incorporating the same A switch arrangement comprises a plurality of MEMS switches arranged on a substrate about, and close to, a central point, each MEMS switch being disposed on a common imaginary circle centered on the central point. Additionally, and each MEMS switch is preferably spa... | 10/02/2007 |
