Information-presentation structure with impact-sensitive color change of pre-established deformation-controlled extended color-change duration
First Claim
1. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object during an activity, the OI structure comprising a principal variable-color (“
VC”
) region which extends to the exposed surface at a principal surface zone and normally appears along it largely as a principal color during the activity, the VC region comprising principal impact-sensitive color-change (“
ISCC”
) structure and principal duration-extension (“
DE”
) structure wherein;
an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) segment of the ISCC structure responds to the object impacting the surface zone at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts the surface zone so as to cause deformation along an ID surface deformation area of the surface zone by causing an ID portion of the VC region to temporarily appear along an ID print area of the surface zone largely as changed color materially different from the principal color if the impact meets principal threshold impact criteria, the print area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with the OC area, the ID portion subsequently returning to appearing along the print area largely as the principal color; and
the DE structure responds to the object impacting the OC area by causing the ISCC structure to deform along an ID internal deformation area, spaced apart from the surface deformation area, so that the ID segment of the ISCC structure causes the ID portion to further temporarily appear along the print area largely as the changed color if the impact meets the threshold impact criteria, thereby extending color-change (“
CC”
) duration of the ID portion temporarily appearing along the print area largely as the changed color.
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Abstract
A variable-color region (106) of an information-presentation structure extends to an exposed surface (102) at a surface zone (112), normally appears along it as a principal color, and includes impact-sensitive color-change structure (132) and duration-extension structure (242). A segment (142) of the impact-sensitive color-change structure responds to an object (104) impacting the zone at an object-contact area (116) by causing an impact-dependent portion (138) of the variable-color region to temporarily appear along a print area (118) of the zone as changed color materially different from the principal color if the impact meets threshold impact criteria. The print area closely matches the object-contact area in size, shape, and location. The duration-extension structure responds to the impact by causing the impact-sensitive color-change structure to deform along an internal deformation area (288). This causes the time duration of the impact-dependent portion appearing as the changed color to be controllably extended.
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21 Claims
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1. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object during an activity, the OI structure comprising a principal variable-color (“
VC”
) region which extends to the exposed surface at a principal surface zone and normally appears along it largely as a principal color during the activity, the VC region comprising principal impact-sensitive color-change (“
ISCC”
) structure and principal duration-extension (“
DE”
) structure wherein;an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) segment of the ISCC structure responds to the object impacting the surface zone at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts the surface zone so as to cause deformation along an ID surface deformation area of the surface zone by causing an ID portion of the VC region to temporarily appear along an ID print area of the surface zone largely as changed color materially different from the principal color if the impact meets principal threshold impact criteria, the print area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with the OC area, the ID portion subsequently returning to appearing along the print area largely as the principal color; andthe DE structure responds to the object impacting the OC area by causing the ISCC structure to deform along an ID internal deformation area, spaced apart from the surface deformation area, so that the ID segment of the ISCC structure causes the ID portion to further temporarily appear along the print area largely as the changed color if the impact meets the threshold impact criteria, thereby extending color-change (“
CC”
) duration of the ID portion temporarily appearing along the print area largely as the changed color. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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