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Tri-level cube corner ruling
 
   
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US Patent 7334904
Issued Date
February 26, 2008
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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.
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February 26, 2008
Application Number
10/935,276
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September 8, 2004
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359/530   425/470
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G02B   5/124   (20060101)   A01J   21/00   (20060101)  
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This application is Divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/320,738 filed Dec. 17, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,902,280.
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359/529   359/530   359/834   359/835   359/836   425/470   425/383   425/195   264/1.6   264/1.9   428/156   428/163   428/167  
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