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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
May. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Milford B Kime, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 641 ; 428 642 ; 428 644 ; 428913 ; 264-11 ; 264-133 ; 264101 ; 4302701 ; 430945 ;
Abstract
Various configurations of a directed energy assisted micro embossing machine/station in a vacuum chamber utilized in a continuous manufacturing process and the web structure products made by that process (optical disks, cards, tapes, holographic reflectors, diffusers, binary optical elements, etc.) are disclosed. The configurations can include a single machine roll to roll system for embossing optical features on the surface of a single substrate and applying appropriate metallic, dielectric, semiconductor, polymer and other coatings all in a vacuum chamber.