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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2009
Ikuo Mimura, Uozu, JP;
Keiji Amemiya, Namerikawa, JP;
Chihiro Hayashi, Toyama, JP;
Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A retroreflective article having excellent retroreflective efficiency, entrance angle characteristic, observation angle characteristic, and rotation angle characteristic is provided. In a retroreflective article including a number of cube corner retroreflective elements formed in a closely packed manner on a common plane (plane Sc), each of the cube corner retroreflective elements having three reflective lateral surfaces (surface a, surface b and surface c) that have three edge lines (HD, HE and HF) and one apex (H) in common and an optical axis that passes through the apex (H) and is at equal distance from the three reflective lateral surfaces (surface a, surface b and surface c), the retroreflective article includes at least two or more types of cube corner retroreflective elements having optical axes tilted with respect to each other within a plane (plane Sv) that is perpendicular to a reflective lateral surface (surface c) and includes a common edge line (HF) of the other reflective lateral surfaces (surface a and surface b) and a perpendicular line from the apex (H) to the common plane (plane Sc).