Patent ID: 11938700
Assignee: FACE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  E  G  H

Claim 0:
1. An object body structure, comprising:
a structural body member with an energy-incident face including at least first portions and second portions; and
an energy scattering layer formed over the at least the first portions of the energy-incident face of the structural body member, the energy scattering layer having an energy-incident surface and a body side surface opposite the energy-incident surface, the energy scattering layer comprising:
a plurality of substantially-transparent spherical particles; and
a substantially-transparent matrix material that fixes the spherical particles in a layer arrangement to form the energy scattering layer;
the spherical particles being fixed in the matrix material in a manner that causes the layer arrangement to reflect substantially all of one or more selectable wavelengths of incident electromagnetic energy having a substantially planar wavefront impinging on the energy scattering layer from an energy-incident surface side, and pass other wavelengths of the incident energy through the energy scattering layer to an area in or behind the structural body member;
said manner of fixing said spherical particles defined as selecting said spherical particle size and interstitial spacing such that each of said one or more selectable wavelengths of incident electromagnetic energy having a substantially planar wavefront is scattered by said plurality of substantially-transparent spherical particles due to the selected size and interstitial spacing of said substantially-transparent spherical particles;
further comprising at least one separately formed, partially transmissive and selectively reflective layer comprising perforations substantially equal in size to a determined wavelength of light; and
further comprising at least one light collecting device sandwiched between the energy scattering layer and the energy-incident face of the first portions of the structural body member;
the incident energy comprising incident light in the visual spectrum;
the other wavelengths of the incident energy passing through the energy scattering layer and impinging on a light collecting surface of the at least one light collecting device.