US 12,275,852 B2
High chroma flakes
Johannes Seydel, Petaluma, CA (US); Mark Tevis, Novato, CA (US); Kangning Liang, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Jeffrey James Kuna, San Francisco, CA (US); Jaroslaw Zieba, Santa Rosa, CA (US); and Paul Thomas Kohlmann, Windsor, CA (US)
Assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC., Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed by VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/538,684.
Application 17/538,684 is a division of application No. 15/633,619, filed on Jun. 26, 2017, granted, now 11,214,689.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/355,147, filed on Jun. 27, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0089878 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. C09C 1/00 (2006.01); B32B 7/02 (2019.01); B32B 7/023 (2019.01); G02B 5/08 (2006.01); G02B 5/26 (2006.01); G02B 5/28 (2006.01)
CPC C09C 1/0015 (2013.01) [B32B 7/02 (2013.01); B32B 7/023 (2019.01); C09C 1/003 (2013.01); C09C 1/0033 (2013.01); C09C 1/0036 (2013.01); C09C 1/0039 (2013.01); C09C 1/006 (2013.01); C09C 1/0063 (2013.01); C09C 1/0066 (2013.01); C09C 1/0069 (2013.01); G02B 5/0808 (2013.01); B32B 2250/05 (2013.01); B32B 2250/40 (2013.01); C01P 2006/62 (2013.01); C01P 2006/65 (2013.01); C01P 2006/66 (2013.01); C09C 2200/1054 (2013.01); C09C 2200/24 (2013.01); C09C 2200/30 (2013.01); C09C 2200/301 (2013.01); C09C 2200/302 (2013.01); C09C 2200/303 (2013.01); C09C 2200/306 (2013.01); C09C 2200/50 (2013.01); C09C 2200/505 (2013.01); C09C 2200/507 (2013.01); C09C 2220/20 (2013.01); G02B 5/26 (2013.01); G02B 5/28 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for forming an article comprising:
depositing on a substrate a first absorber layer;
depositing on the first absorber layer a first selective light modulator layer;
depositing on the first selective light modulator layer a reflector;
depositing on the reflector a second selective light modulator layer; and
depositing on the second selective light modulator layer a second absorber layer;
wherein at least one of the first selective light modulator layer and the second selective light modulator layer is deposited using a liquid coating process;
wherein each of the first and second selective light modulator layers comprises a solvent and the method further comprises evaporating the solvent from each of the deposited first and second selective light modulator layers before curing each of the deposited first and second selective light modulator layers; and
wherein the liquid coating process is a process chosen from slot-bead, slide bead, slot curtain, slide curtain and gravure.