Optical fingerprint prism

• US 20060232865A1
• Filed: 04/06/2006
• Published: 10/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ADEL Group Limited
• Original Assignee: ADEL Group Limited
• Inventors: Min, Yu
• Application Number:
  US11/398,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20060232865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/835
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/108 having one or more prisms as scanning elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/04 Prisms

Abstract

A kind of optical fingerprint prism is disclosed. It has a solid structure with the surface comprising a ridge face (1), a ridge face (2), a left end face (3), an upper plane (4), a lower plane (5), a front plane (6) and a back plane (7); the ridge face (1) and (2) form right angle; finger is placed on the position of a section GH of the front plane (6), and the CE section of the back plane (7) is coated with extinction paint. The invention utilizes the total reflection principle and the structure of the ridge prism, shortening the light path and decreasing the volume of the system. Compared with the conventional light path, it decreases light loss and increases product accuracy.

Claims

1. An optical fingerprint prism, characterized in that it is in a physical structure, and its surface comprises a ridge surface (1), a ridge surface (2), a left end surface (3), an upper plane (4), a lower plane (5), a front plane (6) and a rear plane (7);

the angel (8) formed between the ridge surfaces (2) and (3) is a right angle;

the GH section of the front plane (6) is a location for placing a finger, and the CE section of the rear plane (7) is painted with black dim paint.