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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2005
Ikuo Mimura, Toyama, JP;
Ikuo Mimura, Toyama, JP;
Nippon Carbide Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Adoption of composite cube-corner retroreflective elements in which groups of each at least two sub-retroreflective elements which are each defined by three lateral faces mutually crossing at approximately right angles, as being configured by three-directional V-shaped parallel groove groups having substantially symmetrical sections and intersecting with each other, and which are arrayed in the closest-packed state, projecting on one side of their common sub-plane (SH-SH), each of said groups of sub-reflective elements being disposed on one main retroreflective element which is defined by three lateral faces mutually crossing at approximately right angles, as being configured by three-directional V-shaped parallel groove groups having substantially symmetrical sections and intersecting with each other, and which is disposed on the main plane (S-S).