Optical: systems and elements – Mirror – Plural mirrors or reflecting surfaces
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-28
2001-11-27
Shafer, Ricky D. (Department: 2872)
Optical: systems and elements
Mirror
Plural mirrors or reflecting surfaces
C359S857000, C359S862000, C359S872000, C359S900000, C359S903000, C248S467000, C248S469000, C248S472000, C248S474000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06322222
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a pair of mirrors wherein two surface mirrors arranged orthogonally at right angles and wherein two surface mirrors dually reflect light that is incident from a viewer and present reversed mirror images in which the right and the left sides are correctly positioned as if the viewer were facing himself, and more particularly, to a pair of mirrors equipped with mechanisms enabling unfolding and folding of the mirrors through changes in the intersection angle thereof.
Prior orthogonal mirrors were disclosed in Japan Patent Application Nos. Tokuganhei 7-217034 and Tokuganhei 9-209536, filed by the inventor. The former prior art was a glass mirror system for industrial use, and especially, for electronic image acquiring systems. The latter prior art was a pair of foldaway orthogonal mirrors made of glass mirrors and holders.
Those prior arts used glass mirrors. Therefore, the exposed edges were possibly injurious in environments of consumer use and, especially, the latter complicated structures were costly.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTIONS
An object of the present invention is to provide a pair of holdaway orthogonal mirrors with low cost and high safety, designed especially for consumer use, wherein the dually-reflected lights visualize reversed mirror images of a viewer's face or portrait in which the right and the left sides are correctly positioned.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a pair of orthogonal mirrors which have so simple a structure that they can be fabricated even by molding.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a pair of orthogonal mirrors with safe mirror edges.
Another, more particular, object of the present invention is to provide a pair of orthogonal mirrors held with a stand or a frame.
A further particular object of the present invention is to provide a pair of holdaway orthogonal mirrors which work as a planar mirror as well.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with a feature of the present invention, a pair of mirrors comprises two plates equipped with respectively silverized mirror surfaces, and also with plate connectors, which movably join both plates, enabling transition from an unfolded pose, where the mirror surfaces are arranged orthogonally, to a folded pose where the mirror surfaces face one another.
In accordance with another feature of the present invention, a pair of holdaway orthogonal mirrors comprises a frame; a first plate having a silverized surface and an external edge rotatably held with the frame; a second, wider plate having a silverized surface; and plate connectors, attached to respective mirror sides of both plates, which movably connect both plates, enabling transition from an unfolded pose where the mirror surfaces are arranged orthogonally, to a folded pose where the mirror surfaces face one another.
In accordance with another feature of the present invention, a fabrication method for fabricating a pair of orthogonal mirrors includes procedures wherein each of two orthogonally arranged planes of a solid is silverized to constitute a pair of orthogonal mirrors, wherein incident light is dual reflected and then emitted to present reversed mirror images of a viewer.
In accordance with yet another feature of the present invention, a fabrication method for fabricating a pair of orthogonal mirrors includes procedures wherein two silverized plates are arranged orthogonally with respect to one another so as to form a pair of orthogonal mirrors, wherein incident light is dually reflected and then emitted to present reversed mirror images of a viewer.
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Shafer Ricky D.
Smith , Gambrell & Russell, LLP
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