IP Library Granted Patent US 7,334,904
Granted Patent B2
US 7,334,904 · App. 10/935,276 · Granted Feb 26, 2008

Tri-level cube corner ruling

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Patent No.
US 7,334,904
App. No.
10/935,276
Granted
Feb 26, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A rulable array of cube corners defined by three sets of parallel, equidistant, symmetrical vee-grooves is provided. The directions of the three vee-groove sets make three angles, no two of which are equal. When the array in viewed in plan, lines along the roots of the grooves determine a pattern of triangles in which the apices of the cube corners lie at distances from their respective triangle's centroid that are substantially less than the distance between the triangle's orthocenter and its centroid. In an unmetallized prismatic retroreflective sheeting, the array of quasi-triangular cube corners has the entrance angularity advantages of compound cant with nearly the efficiency of uncanted triangular cube corners at small entrance angles.

Claims (4)

1. A tool comprising a rulable array of cube corners wherein, for each cube corner, the longest edges of each of its faces are mutually skew.

2. The tool defined in claim 1 , wherein said cube corners have compound cant.

3. The tool defined in claim 1 , wherein the axis of each of said cube corners is skew to the axes of its three opposing neighbors.

4. The tool defined in claim 1 , wherein said cube corners are geometrically congruent.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF CORPORATE ADDRESS Recorded Jul 22, 2022
From: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
To: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060814/0274 →
CHANGE OF CORPORATE ADDRESS Recorded Apr 29, 2022
From: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
To: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059822/0614 →