This disclosure relates to the field of optics, and in particular to an optical element, mobile phone cover plate and mold for manufacturing optical element.
At present, the consumer electronics industry is developing faster and faster, and various manufacturers are constantly seeking technological innovation and functional innovation to cater to the development trends of environmental protection, energy conservation and differentiation. The design of consumer electronics has not only been limited to the perfection of functions, many designers have turned their attention to the design of the appearance of consumer electronics. Taking a mobile phone as an example, a mobile phone cover plate not only functions to protect the parts inside the mobile phone, but also serves to beautify and decorate mobile phone. An excellent design of a mobile phone cover plate may not only increase the value of the mobile phone, but also improve user experiences. It increases a range of choice of shapes of mobile phones, and makes mobile phones more popular to users. However, the current decorative design of the mobile phone cover plates is focused on replacement of materials (such as glass, metal, plastic) or the replacement of a single color of a color layer, resulting in that visual senses are unitary and pictures are not sufficiently vivid, so that a decorative effect is not good.
The same defect also exists in design of appearance in other field, such as household appliances, furnitures, automobiles, and cosmetics packaging, etc.
Due to the above reasons, there is a need to provide an optical element, which has a relatively good visual effect.
A technical solution of this disclosure is as follows.
A optical element, including plural texture patterns, at least one type of texture patterns of plural texture patterns having concave structures or convex structures, and the at least one type of texture patterns containing at least one type of sub-texture pattern units, wherein the at least one type of texture patterns are of curved shapes.
In an embodiment, it includes one type of texture patterns, each of the texture patterns including a sub-texture pattern unit.
In an embodiment, it includes one type of texture patterns, each of the texture pattern including two or more consecutively disposed sub-texture pattern units of one type of sub-texture pattern units.
In an embodiment, it includes two or more types of texture patterns, each type of the texture patterns including one or more types of sub-texture pattern units, and each of the texture patterns including one or more sub-texture pattern units.
In an embodiment, each type of the texture patterns include two or more types of sub-texture pattern units, the two or more types of sub-texture pattern units being alternately, regularly, or randomly connected and disposed in a texture pattern.
In an embodiment, it includes two or more types of texture patterns disposed in a column, in the same column, the two or more types of texture patterns being alternately, regularly or randomly disposed.
In an embodiment, it includes two or more types of texture patterns, the two or more types of texture patterns having at least one identical sub-texture pattern unit.
In an embodiment, one of the texture patterns has two or more identical or different sub-texture pattern units, the two or more identical or different sub-texture pattern units being disposed consecutively.
In an embodiment, the sub-texture pattern unit is a curved cylindrical lens.
In an embodiment, the curved cylindrical lens is of a sinusoidal curve, a cosine curve, or an irregular curve.
In an embodiment, at least one parameter of amplitudes, curvatures, widths, angles, radians, widths, and lengths, of curves of two different types of sub-texture pattern units is different.
In an embodiment, the curved cylindrical lens includes a front end point and a rear end point at both ends of a curve, a rear end of a curved cylindrical lens of two curved cylindrical lenses of neighboring two sub-texture pattern units being smoothly connected to a front end of the other curved cylindrical lens.
In an embodiment, the sub-texture pattern unit is a plurality of small short lines arranged in curves.
In an embodiment, the small short lines are a linear cylindrical mirror or a curved cylindrical lens with a length greater than or equal to 10 μm.
In an embodiment, small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit are located on a curve, or central points of small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit are located on a curve.
In an embodiment, at least a part of the small short lines are offset from the horizontal direction, or at least a part of the small short lines are offset from their respective central points.
In an embodiment, offset angles of the small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit change in an ascending order or a descending order.
In an embodiment, at least one parameter of lengths, widths, cross-sectional shapes, reliefs, numbers, arranged curves and offset angles of small short lines in the two different types of sub-texture pattern units are different.
In an embodiment, the optical element further includes a carrier layer, an optical layer disposed at a side of the carrier layer, a substrate layer disposed at an opposite side of the carrier layer, a reflective layer covering the optical layer and a colored layer covering the reflective layer, the optical layer including the plural texture patterns.
In an embodiment, the sub-texture pattern unit is a curved cylindrical lens, a linear cylindrical mirror, or a plurality of small short lines arranged in curves, one type of texture patterns of the optical element include a curved cylindrical lens, and another type of texture patterns include a linear cylindrical mirror; or one type of texture patterns of the optical element include a plurality of small short lines arranged in curves, and another type of texture patterns include a linear cylindrical mirror; or one type of texture patterns of the optical element include a curved cylindrical lens, another type of texture patterns include a linear cylindrical mirror, and a further type of texture patterns include a plurality of small short lines arranged in curves.
This application further discloses a mobile phone cover plate, including the above-described optical element.
This application further discloses a mold for manufacturing the above-described optical element, the mold including plural texture patterns, at least one type of texture patterns of the plural texture patterns having concave structures or convex structures, the at least one type of texture patterns containing at least one type of sub-texture pattern units, wherein the at least one type of texture patterns are of curved shapes.
An advantage of this disclosure exists in that the texture patterns are of concave structures or convex structures, and the texture patterns are of curved shapes and contain at least one type of sub-texture pattern units, so that the texture patterns may produce a light shadow effect, which have a good visual effect, and when they are applied in the field of decoration, they are able to enhance a decoration effect, and make the decoration rich in visual senses and pictures vivid.
For this disclosure to be understood, this disclosure shall be fully described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Better embodiments of this disclosure are given in the accompanying drawings; however, this disclosure may be carried out in various ways, which are not limited to those described below. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that the contents disclosed in this disclosure are understood more thoroughly and completely.
All technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meanings as commonly understood by those skilled in the art to which this disclosure pertains, unless otherwise defined. The terminology used in the description of this disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments and is not intended to limit this disclosure. The term “and/or” as used herein includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
This application discloses an optical element, including plural texture patterns, at least one type of texture patterns of the plural texture patterns having concave structures or convex structures; the at least one type of texture patterns containing at least one type of sub-texture pattern units, wherein the at least one type of texture patterns are of curved shapes. The texture patterns are of concave structures or convex structures, and the texture patterns are of curved shapes and contain at least one type of sub-texture pattern units, so that the texture patterns may produce a light shadow effect, which have a good visual effect, and when they are applied in the field of decoration, they are able to enhance a decoration effect, and make the decoration rich in visual senses and pictures vivid.
Preferably, the optical element includes one type of texture patterns, each of the texture patterns including a sub-texture pattern unit, and plural texture patterns are arrange.
Preferably, the optical element includes one type of texture patterns, each of the texture pattern including two or more consecutively disposed sub-texture pattern units of one type of sub-texture pattern units. For example, the optical element includes one type of texture patterns, this type of texture patterns being multiple and being arrange in a column, each texture pattern including two sub-texture pattern units, and two sub-texture pattern units of the same texture pattern being consecutively disposed.
Preferably, the optical element includes two or more types of texture patterns, each type of the texture patterns including one or more types of sub-texture pattern units, and each of the texture patterns including one or more sub-texture pattern units. For example, the optical element includes two types of texture patterns, each type of the texture patterns including one type of sub-texture pattern units, and each of the texture patterns including one sub-texture pattern unit.
Preferably, each type of the texture patterns include two or more types of sub-texture pattern units, the two or more types of sub-texture pattern units being alternately, regularly, or randomly connected and disposed in a texture pattern. For example, one type of the texture patterns include two types of texture pattern units, the two types of texture pattern units being alternately disposed two by two.
Preferably, the optical element includes two or more types of texture patterns disposed in a column, in the same column, the two or more types of texture patterns being alternately, regularly or randomly disposed. For example, the optical element includes two types of texture patterns disposed in a column, the two types of texture patterns being alternately disposed in the same column.
Preferably, the optical element includes two or more types of texture patterns, the two or more types of texture patterns having at least one identical sub-texture pattern unit. For example, the optical element includes two types of texture patterns, one type of texture patterns including a first sub-texture pattern unit and a second sub-texture pattern unit, and another type of texture patterns including the first sub-texture pattern unit and a third sub-texture pattern unit.
Preferably, one of the texture patterns has two or more identical or different sub-texture pattern units, the two or more identical or different sub-texture pattern units being disposed consecutively.
Preferably, the sub-texture pattern unit is a curved cylindrical lens. The curved cylindrical lens is of a sinusoidal curve, a cosine curve, or other irregular curves. At least one parameter of amplitudes, curvatures, widths, angles, radians, widths, and lengths, of curves of two types of different sub-texture pattern units are different. The curved cylindrical lens is of a sinusoidal curve, or a cosine curve, hence, a sinusoidal curve or a cosine curve of 2π, 1π, ½ or ¼ may become a sub-texture pattern unit. Units of neighboring cycle are disposed consecutively. For example, the curved cylindrical lens includes a front end point and a rear end point at both ends of a curve, a rear end of a curved cylindrical lens of two curved cylindrical lenses of neighboring two sub-texture pattern units being smoothly connected to a front end of the other curved cylindrical lens of the two curved cylindrical lenses. The being smoothly connected refers that curvatures of two curves at an intersection are identical and there exists no steep curve.
Preferably, the sub-texture pattern unit is plural small short lines arranged in curves. The small short line is a linear cylindrical mirror or a curved cylindrical lens with a length greater than or equal to 10 μm and less than or equal to 300 μm. For example, a length the small short lines is 80 μm, 100 μm, or 120 etc. Small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit are located on a curve, and preferably, central points of small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit (for example, the cylindrical mirror is a linear cylindrical mirror of a convex structure, and its cross section is semi-circular, then a central point of the small short lines is an intersection of a middle point in a length direction of the linear cylindrical mirror and the center of the cross section) are located on a curve. At least a part of the small short lines are offset from the horizontal direction, and preferable, at least a part of the small short lines are offset from their respective central points (which refers to that the small short lines are rotatable around respective central points). Preferably, offset angles of the small short lines (angles by which the small short lines are rotatable counterclockwise from a horizontal position by taking the central points as centers) in the same sub-texture pattern unit change in an ascending order or a descending order. For example, the offset angles of the small short lines change from 0 degree to 180 degrees or change from 180 degrees to 0 degree. Preferably, offset angles of the small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit are identical, or differences between offset angles of neighboring small short lines in the same sub-texture pattern unit are identical. Preferably, at least one parameter of lengths (such as lengths of linear cylindrical mirrors), widths (such as widths of linear cylindrical mirrors), cross-sectional shapes (such as cross-sectional shapes of linear cylindrical mirrors, such as semi-circular shapes, and rectangular shapes, etc.), reliefs (for example, linear cylindrical mirrors are of convex structures or concave structures), numbers (such as the number of linear cylindrical mirrors in the same unit), arranged curves (curves of distribution of central points of the small short lines) and offset angles (angles by which cylindrical mirrors are rotatable around respective central points) of small short lines in different sub-texture pattern units is different.
Preferably, the sub-texture pattern unit is a curved cylindrical lens, a linear cylindrical mirror, or plural small short lines arranged in curves. One type of texture patterns of the optical element include a curved cylindrical lens, and another type of texture patterns include a linear cylindrical mirror; or one type of texture patterns of the optical element include plural small short lines arranged in curves, and another type of texture patterns include a linear cylindrical mirror; or one type of texture patterns of the optical element include a curved cylindrical lens, another type of texture patterns include a linear cylindrical mirror, and a further type of texture patterns include plural small short lines arranged in curves.
Preferably, one type of the texture patterns are disposed in a column, and the extending directions of the columns may be the same or different. Such as two type texture patterns, one type of the texture pattern is arranged in columns in the horizontal direction, and the other type of texture pattern is arranged in a vertical direction.
Preferably, the texture patterns are disposed in a column, and are disposed at intervals, alternately, regularly, or randomly.
The optical element further includes a carrier layer, an optical layer disposed at a side of the carrier layer, a substrate layer disposed at an opposite side of the carrier layer, a reflective layer covering the optical layer and a colored layer covering the reflective layer, the optical layer including the plural texture patterns.
This application further discloses a mobile phone cover plate, including the above-described optical element.
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This application further discloses a mobile phone cover plate including the above optical element, preferably, such as a mobile phone back cover, thereby increasing appearance decoration of the mobile phone, and better adapting to the market development needs.
This application further discloses a mold for manufacturing the above optical element, the mold including plural texture patterns, at least one type of texture patterns of plural texture patterns having concave structures or convex structures, the at least one type of texture patterns containing at least one type of sub-texture pattern units, wherein the at least one type of texture patterns are of curved shapes.
For the above targets, features and advantages of the present invention to be understood more easily, embodiments of the present inventions are described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the above description, many details are given so that the present invention is fully understood. However, the present invention may be carried out in other implementations than those described above. Similar modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the concept of the present invention, hence, the present invention is not limited to the above disclosure. And the technical features of the above embodiments may be arbitrarily combined. For the sake of concise description, not all possible combinations of the technical features of the above embodiments are described. However, combinations of the technical features shall be deemed as being within the protection scope of the present invention only if the combinations of these technical features are not contradictory to each other.
The above embodiments are some implementations of the present invention only. Description of these implementations are relatively particular and minute, however, it they should not be understood as limiting the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that many variants and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the concept of the present invention, and all of these are covered by the present invention. Hence, the protection scope of the present invention shall be covered by the attached claims.
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This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2018/086794, which designates the United States and was filed on May 15, 2018, published in Chinese, which claims priority to Chinese Application No. 201710343681.5, entitled “Optical Component, Mobile Phone Cover Plate, and Mold for Manufacturing Optical Component,” filed May 16, 2017. The entire teachings of the above applications are incorporated herein by reference.
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