B - Operations – Transporting – 41 – F
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
41
F
B41F 19/08 (2006.01) B41F 17/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2738159
A method, product, and apparatus for imprinting a three-dimensional design into a textured surface of a synthetic material includes laser-ablating the design into the synthetic material and then imprinting the design. The design is laser-ablated into the textured surface of the synthetic material by vaporizing a portion of the material in an x-y shape of the design to a predetermined z-depth. The vaporized portions of the material form a design-shaped void that extends a prescribed distance into the textured surface of the synthetic material. In one implementation, the design is imprinted by inserting a tool in the design-shaped void of the laser-ablated design. The tool has a substantial conformance fit with the void, thereby forming a substantially distortion-free imprint of the design on the synthetic material.
Research In Motion Limited
Ridout & Maybee Llp
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