IP Library Granted Patent US 8,558,137
Granted Patent B2
US 8,558,137 · App. 12/736,703 · Granted Oct 15, 2013

Structure, method of forming structure, and method of laser processing objects

Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yuasa (Yokohama, JP); Ken Takenouchi (Yokohama, JP); Hitomi Kuroda (Yokohama, JP); Nobuo Hirakawa (Yokohama, JP); Hiroko Hosono (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,558,137
App. No.
12/736,703
Granted
Oct 15, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A structural body has an inner layer formed of a resin which does not transmit light with a specific wavelength, an outer layer stacked on the inner layer and formed of a resin which transmits the light with the specific wavelength, and a fine periodic structure provided on at least part of a surface of the inner layer facing the outer layer and having a plurality of photodecomposition generated convex and concave portions. The plurality of convex and concave portions of the fine periodic structure is formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between along the surface of the inner layer facing the outer layer.

Claims (49)

1. A structural body comprising:

an inner layer formed of a resin which does not transmit light with a specific wavelength;

an outer layer stacked on the inner layer and formed of a resin which transmits the light with said specific wavelength; and

a fine periodic structure provided on at least part of a surface of said inner layer facing said outer layer and having a plurality of photodecomposition generated convex and concave portions,

wherein the plurality of convex and concave portions of the fine periodic structure is formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between along the surface of the inner layer facing the outer layer.

2. The structural body according to claim 1 , wherein the fine periodic structure has a regular arrangement which develops a structural color.

3. The structural body according to claim 1 , wherein said light which generates photodecomposition includes ultraviolet light.

4. The structural body according to claim 1 , which has a high-molecular compound which transmits laser light in at least part thereof,

wherein at least part of said high-molecular compound is irradiated with light to modify and enhance absorptivity of said laser light, and the modified high-molecular compound is used as one layer of the multilayer structural body.

5. The structural body according to claim 4 , wherein a fine periodic structure is formed in said modified part by laser light irradiation, and

the fine periodic structure comprises a plurality of convex and concave portions formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between along the surface of the high-molecular compound.

6. The structural body according to claim 1 , wherein the fine periodic structure is a modified part irradiated with ultraviolet light to increase an absorptivity of a laser light and irradiated with the laser light to form the plurality of convex and concave portions.

7. The structural body according to claim 1 , wherein at least part of the outer layer comprises a high-molecular compound transmitting a laser light, and the inner layer comprises a high-molecular compound not transmitting the laser light; and

the inner layer is irradiated with ultraviolet light to increase an absorptivity of the laser light, and is irradiated with the laser light to form the fine periodic structure having the plurality of convex and concave portions.

8. A structural body comprising:

an outer layer formed of a resin which transmits light with a specific wavelength,

a plurality of inner layers formed of different resins stacked together and disposed on the outer layer, at least one of the inner layers being formed of a resin which does not transmit light with the specific wavelength, and

a fine periodic structure formed on at least part of a surface of said at least one of the inner layers facing the outer layer and having a plurality of photodecomposition generated convex and concave portions,

wherein the plurality of convex and concave portions of the fine periodic structure is formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between along the surface of the inner layer facing the outer layer.

9. The structural body according to claim 8 , wherein the fine periodic structure has a regular arrangement which develops a structural color.

10. The structural body according to claim 8 , wherein said light which generates photodecomposition includes ultraviolet light.

11. A structural body comprising:

an inner layer formed of a resin which does not transmit light with a specific wavelength;

an outer layer stacked on both surfaces of the inner layer, and having a first outer layer formed on one surface of said inner layer and a second outer layer formed on another surface of the inner layer, at least one of the outer layers being formed of a resin which transmits the light with said specific wavelength; and

a fine periodic structure having a plurality of photodecomposition generated convex and concave portions formed on at least part of a surface opposed to the first outer layer and/or on at least part of a surface opposed to the second outer layer,

wherein the plurality of convex and concave portions of the fine periodic structure is formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between along the surface of the inner layer facing the outer layer.

12. The structural body according to claim 11 , wherein the fine periodic structure has a regular arrangement which develops a structural color.

13. The structural body according to claim 11 , wherein said light which generates photodecomposition includes ultraviolet light.

14. A structural body comprising:

a plurality of inner layers stacked together and formed of resins different from each other, at least one of the inner layers being formed of a resin which does not transmit light with a specific wavelength,

a first outer layer formed on one side of said inner layers and a second outer layer formed on another side of said inner layers, the first outer layer and/or the second outer layer being formed of a resin which transmits light with the specific wavelength,

a fine periodic structure formed on at least part of a surface of the inner layers facing the first outer layer or at least part of a surface facing the second layer, and having a plurality of photodecomposition generated convex and concave portions,

wherein the plurality of convex and concave portions of the fine periodic structure is formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between along the surface of the inner layer facing the outer layer.

15. The structural body according to claim 14 , wherein the fine periodic structure has a regular arrangement which develops a structural color.

16. The structural body according to claim 14 , wherein said light which generates photodecomposition includes ultraviolet light.

17. A method for forming a structural body, comprising:

preparing a structural body having at least an outer layer formed of a resin which transmits light with a specific wavelength, an inner layer formed of a resin which does not transmit the light with said specific wavelength,

irradiating the structural body with the light with said specific wavelength through said outer layer to said inner layer, and generating photodecomposion in at least part of a surface of said inner layer facing said outer layer to form fine periodic structure having a plurality of convex and concave portions,

wherein the plurality of convex and concave portions of the fine periodic structure is formed alternatively, and horizontally and vertically with substantially equal intervals in between thereof along the outer surface of the inner layer.

18. A method for forming a structural body according to claim 17 , wherein a laser oscillator outputs laser light with said specific wavelength, a beam splitter divides said laser light into a plurality of light fluxes, a light-condensing element forms an interference region by allowing said plurality of light fluxes to be intersected, and said structural body is arranged in said interference region, whereby said fine periodic structure is formed.

19. The method for forming a structural body according to claim 17 , wherein said laser light includes ultraviolet rays.

20. The method for forming a structural body according to claim 17 , in which

the structural body has at least part thereof made of a high-molecular compound which transmits laser light,

said at least part of said high-molecular compound is irradiated with light to modify said at least part of said high-molecular compound, and

said modified part is irradiated with said laser light to conduct a predetermined processing.

21. The method for forming a structural body according to claim 20 , wherein the light to modify said at least part of said high-molecular compound includes UV rays with a wavelength of 400 nm or less.

22. The method for forming a structural body according to claim 20 , wherein the modified part is irradiated with said laser light at a periodic intensity distribution, whereby a fine periodic structure is formed on the surface of said modified part.

23. The method for forming a structural body according to claim 20 , wherein the modified part is irradiated with said light through a shielding plate having an opening formed in the shape of a character or a figure.

24. A method for forming a structural body according to claim 17 , wherein the inner layer is irradiated with ultraviolet light to increase an absorptivity of the laser light, and is irradiated with the laser light to form the fine periodic structure having the plurality of convex and concave portions.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNEE ADDRESS CHANGE Recorded Jul 13, 2012
From: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
To: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028555/0881 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2010
From: YUASA, YOSHIYUKI; TAKENOUCHI, KEN; KURODA, HITOMI; HIRAKAWA, NOBUO; HOSONO, HIROKO
To: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
Reel/Frame 025301/0268 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2008-121561 · May 7, 2008 · national
JP 2008-163734 · Jun 23, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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