Indications for the visually handicapped using transparent three-dimensional ink

• US 5,779,482 A
• Filed: 02/18/1997
• Issued: 07/14/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Sanichi-Kougeisha, Yuugenkaisha Mediamews
• Original Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Sanichi-Kougeisha, Yuugenkaisha Mediamews
• Inventors: Fukumoto, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jeffrey A.
• Application Number:
  US08/801,515
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 434/112, 434/113, 206/459.5
• US Class Current: 434/113
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 3/16 Braille printing typewriters or selective printing mechanisms for Braille printing B41J3/32
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/00 Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04; devices or methods for replacing direct visual or auditory perception by another kind of perception A61F9/08, A61F11/04; audible indication of meter readings or of colour G01D7/12; watches for blind persons G04B25/02; speech analysis, speech recognition G10L; sound-recording or reproducing, per se G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/003 using tactile presentation of the information, e.g. Braille displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/02 Devices for Braille writing typewriters for Braille B41J3/32

Abstract

Disclosed is an indication for the visually handicapped using transparent three-dimensional ink, wherein a letter and/or a design is formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink on the indication on which an usual letter and/or design for the healthy persons is indicated, such as printed matter in which braille points of the same sound are formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink on the printed matter on which letters are printed with ordinary ink, a package of a label of a goods in which necessary information such as a trade name and contents thereof is expressed by braille points using the transparent three-dimensional ink on a surface of the package or the label on which a design or letters are printed, or printed matter in which necessary information such as a design is formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink on the printed matter on which a design is printed.

Claims

1. An indication for the visually handicapped using transparent three-dimensional ink having a height of from about 300 μ

m to about 500 μ

m and which has been cured by ultraviolet radiation,

wherein at least one marking is formed on a substrate and wherein at least a first portion of the at least one marking is formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink and wherein at least a second portion of the at least one marking is visually observable to healthy persons.

2. The indication according to claim 1, wherein said indication is printed matter.

3. The indication according to claim 2, wherein the first portion of the at least one marking formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink has the same meaning as the second portion of the at least one marking visually observable to healthy persons.

4. The indication according to claim 2, wherein the first portion of the at least one marking formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink is different in its meaning from the second portion of the at least one marking visually observable to healthy persons.

5. A package of goods for the visually handicapped using transparent three-dimensional ink having a height of from about 300 μ

m to 500 μ

m, and which has been cured by ultraviolet radiation,

the package of goods including a substrate wherein at least one marking is formed on said substrate and wherein at least a first portion of the at least one marking is formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink and at least a second portion of the at least one marking is visually observable to healthy persons.

6. The package according to claim 5, wherein the first portion of the at least one marking formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink has the same meaning as the second portion of the at least one marking visually observable to healthy persons.

7. The package according to claim 5, wherein the first portion of the at least one marking formed using the transparent three-dimensional ink is necessary information for the goods which is different in its meaning from the second portion of the at least one marking visually observable to healthy persons.