FR2851496A1 - Object e.g. jewel, decorating method, involves obtaining graphic art by photolithographic, where art is to be read by enlarging device, and arranging graphic arts on transparent substrate - Google Patents

Abstract

The method involves obtaining graphic art (1) by a photolithographic process, where art is to be read by an enlarging device. The graphic arts is arranged on a transparent substrate that undergoes a rotation on 180 degree, where the substrate is placed on a support core of an object e.g. jewel. The object is connected to an electronic device of a geographic orientation. An independent claim is also included for a decorated object e.g. jewel.

Description

1 The present invention is characterized in that it describes a

solution

advantageous for several reasons.

  - Economically: lower manufacturing costs.

  - In terms of reliability by providing absolute durability to the object of use thus obtained. as such or associated with such an object as an element of ornamentation and enhancement or identification.

  It relates to a process allowing the permanent recording on objects of use, of texts or symbols which can be displayed on the use of integrated or non-integrated magnification means, numerous objects of use which can serve as a support as it is said. , thus jewelry, watches, paintings, works of art, etc. We know the jewelry worn by people in various forms sometimes symbolic. star, cross, etc. The materials used as constituent basic elements are most often more or less precious materials supporting or not inclusions of 1 5 substances appreciated for their characteristics in terms of jewelry: diamonds.

  ruby, * As an example of jewelry combining a metal and one or more precious, mineral or synthetic stones: - The pendant called CAMEE.

  - Rings-including-inclusions, ex: MARQU-S.

  * As an ornamental object: art object, painting, souvenir photo frame * As everyday objects: - any object to be identified - watch via its protective glass mechanism included.

  - equipment comprising at least one window, or mechanical protection device, a transparent element of which allows the visualization of data, for example mobile telephone sets and its window. In consideration of the enhancement - which can be made - to the decorated object, when the objective is to give real, notably aesthetic, value to the whole. As a variant, in addition to contributing to the objective, it is possible to add an electronic device allowing the object holder to locate it in relation to a fixed point on the globe.

  The technique of reproduction of the text or graphics used, known in itself through many uses, bears the name of photolithography.

  Given the size of such an object, or due to a desire to conceal (identification), the reproduction of the graphic symbol or of a text implies: - either a choice of patterns that can be expressed in a small dimension while by presenting attractive visual characteristics giving the observer the ability to perceive with the naked eye the desired effect such as an engraving made using a conventional means, for example: pantograph.

  - or a different presentation choice through extreme miniaturization when the resulting size of the number of elements to be reproduced is such that it is then necessary to use for visualization purposes appropriate optical means in order to clearly distinguish them.

  One of the constituent elements of the present invention will consist in implementing an optical device facilitating the visual perception of the transferred graphics, thus the latter can advantageously receive in exact overlap a blade preferably of glass or transparent materials, for example plastic as constituted by a succession of lenses adjacent to each other or, alternatively, a single lens producing a magnifying effect, each one (s) facing an entire graphic element taken within the meaning of the claimed invention, example: entire page d '' a book reproduced in succession of adjacent pages.

  It will be understood that the part supporting the etching on one of its main faces, which is then transparent, may have on the other main face opposite one of the other the magnification lens (s). One of the characteristics of the invention (figure no. 1, rotation 1,800) comes into play, since in order to be viewed correctly, the graphics must be produced as shown.

  This advantageous solution in that it saves a constituent, when the crew is for example composed of the body and the etched blade supporting in fact the said means of magnification, compared to an implementation associating body, 1 substrate engraved, means of magnification.

  In most cases the reproduced graphics require a reduction in the copy of the original; from this point of view, classical photography has its limits as reached at the microfilm level.

  Silicon smelters specializing in the miniaturization of electronic diagrams for the production of complex semiconductors use a technique called photolithography. This process is known to those skilled in the art. Various companies use this process through the marketing of objects thus decorated, for example the company "Graphilux International S.A." (Luxembourg).

  It is possible to obtain further information through the consultation of numerous scientific publications and commercial documents as written by different research laboratories, such as in France the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique. Or the National Center for Scientific Research or more generally from silicon smelters.

  A different process is also known to give good results in terms of micro-etching, in particular applied to glass; this involves marking with a laser, for example of the eximer type; CARL ZEISS uses it to identify the spectacle lenses it manufactures.

  In all cases, the size of the resulting graphics leads it over time to erode or even clog quickly especially if it is subject to friction.

  Major disadvantage that eliminates the implementation of the claimed invention.

  In the field of the computer industry using these technologies, the protection of the graphics, which materializes the electronic component, is most often carried out by a protective deposit, for example transparent, such as varnish, followed very frequently by a coating of all in the form of a box comprising electrical connections with sometimes setting up a transparent window having no particular optical characteristic other than its transparency, superimposed on the graphics, the latter then visible by transparency as it is - says (example: memory boxes erasable by exposure to a source of ultra-violet rays). These solutions are unsuitable when it comes to jewelry, or objects I use. However, the use of the aforementioned techniques allows the realization of reduced graphics to extreme dimensions; this is how it is possible to write under a few square millimeters an extremely high number of symbols or writing characters, a line which can be materialized by a trace of the order of a micrometer in width.

  The invention describes an embodiment using in an innovative way in combination the techniques mentioned, characterized in particular by the protection of the graphics, the latter associated or not with an electronic device, another characteristic of the invention, integrated into the finished object. (jewel, object of use, ornamental object, watch, etc.) making it possible to locate a fixed point on the globe relative to the position and orientation of the object, the wearer, natural person who can occupy a traveling position.

  The words used in the description of the invention have the following meaning: - Graphics (figure n'l, reference nIl) .: this is the representative layout of 15 symbols or writing characters.

  - Substrate (figure n01, reference nn: this is the surface and the thin blade type material on which the graphics will be produced, ultimately: graphics support.

  - Heart of object of use (figure n01, reference n'3): it is the constituent part of the heart, for example central part of a jewel in contact with the intimately associated substrate preferably by bonding, or inscribed in a setting, in the case of a watch glass, the heart, consisting of a second thin wall. watch glass as such, the graphics being on the parting line (figure n 'l, reference n04). 25 - Framework of object of use it is a metallic frame or not which can be hollow and preferably inserting by crimping the heart, while alternatively containing the locating device, electronic module which is mentioned in title of the invention.

  - Electronic module: this is a module that can be inscribed in the hollow of the frame when the latter includes a housing for this purpose and a 1 closing cover ensuring the protection of the components and the permanence of the general appearance presented by the framework as a whole.

  - Magnification optics: a) Micro lenses or single lens placed next to each engraving presenting a finished set, example: text page.

  b) separate opto-electronic device, intended on presentation of the object supporting the engraving, to allow the benefit of a screen enlargement of the graphics, making it perfectly visually interpretable, said opto-electronic device comprising 10 a printer output capable of delivering a paper document reproducing the screen.

  According to the present invention, a first constituent element receiving the graphic data consists of a material permeable to light; by way of example, a substrate made of sapphire, crystal, or other thin materials, 1 5 which may or may not be flexible plastic, the latter preferably comprised between 0.10 mm and 0.50 mm, (figure n'I , reference n2), being in the form of a preferably flat surface, having any form of external cutting, permitted by the implementation of an appropriate cutting technique known to those skilled in the art. Apposition on a surface, for example convex or having certain flexibility characteristics, does not constitute an innovation with regard to the present invention.

  The substrate (figure n0 i, reference n02) can come from a large surface plate, several graphics reproduced continuously or simultaneously before cutting said large surface plate, etched in as many independent modules (substrates), operation facilitated by the low thickness of the latter (technique known as it is said).

  According to the invention, the graphics which can be read on the use of magnifying means, integrated or not, are protected from any mechanical attack and dirt. , the body of the substrate providing mechanical protection 1 and total sealing, in particular if it is used for the purposes of assembling the adhesive.

  The graphics, in the case of a text, in the example, produced as if viewed from the depot side were theoretically legible from right to left, so that after turning the support blade (substrate) into its position d '' assembly with the heart, the reading can be done normally from left to right in the case of a Western type of writing mode, we will understand, that an inversion is necessary if one has to engrave a text read from right to left to be understood (example: text in Arabic).

  We will understand: - That the protection of the graphics ensured by the contiguous affixing of a thin transparent blade.

  - That the graphics can also be produced in the place, without requiring a permutation, in particular in the following cases: a) the substrate receives in exact superposition a thin protective blade, producing together a finite element.

  b) the substrate is glued inside a transparent window, for example a mobile phone or a watch glass, the visualization carried out through the element associated with the substrate, consisting in fact of a thin blade: 20 window, glass shows.

  - it will be noted that in all cases, the graphics are located on the joint plane.

  It will also be understood that the production of graphics directly on the heart can lead to an identical final result, etching then carried out normally as regards the direction of reading. It will be noted in this case several penalizing difficulties 25 in particular in terms of manipulations, each core being an independent unit representing a volume and a consequent weight compared to a thin blade, in particular in terms of grasping with regard to automatic graphics reproduction-and related manipulations.

  The advantages contained in fact are very real and substantial, whether the graphics are oriented or not in order to allow their reading, in all cases, the latter preferably associated by gluing or crimping, with a transparent element allowing its visualization.

  As a first variant, it is possible to produce the graphics on a first thin blade-substrate, the latter engraved on the right, without any rotation as described above and to affix above as a means of physical protection a second thin blade virgin substrate type; assembled together by gluing or crimping. The engraved setting serving as the heart as it was said above.

  The body part, preferably made of sapphire, crystal, glass, or 10 other materials, tinted or not, or precious or semiprecious stones.

  In the second variant, it is possible to carry out an engraving as it is said, on a first thin blade - of small thickness, arranged, - engraving allowing a reading without reversal, for an observer looking from above the engraving carried out, without being necessary a reversal of the substrate, the said substrate bonded to a second strip or window made of a transparent material, etching on the parting line, the whole for the benefit of typical equipment for use, for example. watch glass, cell phone screen window, Pocket PC, computer screen, as well as adaptable facades to portable equipment from: non-limiting example cell phone facade, etc., viewing is done through the window or 20 second thin blade.

  As a variant. without departing from the scope of the invention, affixing to any valuable object for decorative purposes or for the purpose of identification (marking of a work of art), the body being able to be or not transparent, the reading remaining possible by transparency of -the blade -of graphic protection.

  It will be understood that in the case of a piece of jewelry, it may include any number of faces, each of them decorated by affixing a graphic design according to the invention, or only one. A third element, another characteristic of the invention, consists of a frame that can be hollow (by way of only examples: jewelry frames, watch cases), this in addition to its primary function which is to support the core and substrate equipment, then alternatively comprises the additional electronic circuit suitably supplied with energy preferably structured as indicated below: at least one display, a microprocessor containing a computer program, a polar data indicator device, light indicators, finally a source of electrical energy: battery or battery, and to control everything, one or more push buttons, in total, a device similar to electronic watchmaking in terms of the technologies used.

  The operation is as follows (the computer program, stored in a memory-type circuit with rotating programs, activated by push buttons 10 (several buttons or only one acting for example on the basis of a number of pulses delivered in a space of given time).

  - hemispherical determination - choice of a country (stored list) - choice of a city in the selected country (stored list) 15 - in - additional variants: orientation of the jewel until an indicator light signal is obtained polar data.

  It will be understood that by software, the implementation described above is obvious to those skilled in the art.

  The present invention would not be fully described if specific applications were not indicated.

  In respect of these, as having an inventive character since to date

without known description.

  First: as described above, text of cult or cultural value, as well as the partial or complete text of a work, example: constitutive texts of the Holy books of one of the religions of the book, declaration -of human rights Finally: an object of art or of value, the united rendering produced by collage, crimping or inclusion.

Claims (9)

REVENDICA TIONS   l 1) A method of ornamenting an object, for example of the jewel type on one or more faces, characterized in that a graphic obtained for example by photolithography which can be read by a magnifying device is deposited on a transparent substrate (2), iedit substrate undergoes a rotation (4) over 1800 and is affixed to the object support core (3), the object being able to be associated with an electronic device for geographical orientation.   2) Method according to claim 1 characterized in that it is used on a rigid substrate: crystal or precious stone, -or having a certain flexibility: plastic.   3 'A method according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in 1 0 that the substrate is bonded to the jewel core and the graphics on the junction plane.   4) ornamental object obtained by the implementation of the method according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that it consists of a support core on which is affixed a transparent substrate (2), said substrate having received a graphic obtained for example by photolithography and which can be read by a magnifying device 15 before being returned to 1,800 and being affixed to the heart, said object possibly being associated with a device for geographical orientation.   5) Ornamental object according to the preceding claim characterized in that the substrate comprises one or more lenses in exact superposition with respect to the graphics.   6) An ornamental object according to any one of claims 4 to 5 characterized in that it comprises an opto-electronic device allowing the obtaining of a high magnification of the graphics on a screen with the possibility of printing on paper.   7) An ornamental object according to one of claims 4 to 6 characterized in that it comprises a frame supporting the substrate and the core, said frame having a hollow body with a face forming a cover.   8) Ornamental object according to the preceding claim characterized in that the hollow part of the frame comprises an electronic module equipped with the following elements: displays, microprocessors, light means, polar data indicating devices, power supply means, push buttons.   9) Application of the method of ornamentation of an object according to any one of claims 1 to 3 to a fun object such as a watch glass or a cell phone screen window or a computer screen or cell phone front panel .