21 |
Multicolor image-forming material and method for forming multicolor image |
US10054891 |
2002-01-25 |
US20020177062A1 |
2002-11-28 |
Naotaka
Wachi; Akihiro
Shimomura; Kazuhito
Miyake; Yasutomo
Goto; Mitsuru
Yamamoto |
A multicolor image-forming material comprises: an image-receiving sheet having an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each including a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, in which each of the thermal transfer sheets has a different color, wherein an image is formed by: superposing the image-forming layer in each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet, in which the image-forming layer is opposed to the image-receiving layer; irradiating the image-forming layer in the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam; and transferring the irradiated area of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet, and each of the light-to-heat converting layers in the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a ratio of an optical density (OD) to a layer thickness: OD/layer thickness (nullm unit) of 0.57 or more. |
22 |
Laminator assembly having an endless two ply or half-lap belt |
US09772797 |
2001-01-30 |
US06435247B1 |
2002-08-20 |
Roger S. Kerr |
A laminator assembly utilizing either an endless multi-ply belt (27) or a half-lap belt and another endless belt and a roller arrangement (43) to apply pressure to media (55) to be laminated and to convey the media (55) in a controlled manner to pressure rollers. |
23 |
Fabrication method of semiconductor integrated circuit device and mask fabrication method |
US09968920 |
2001-10-03 |
US20020098421A1 |
2002-07-25 |
Norio
Hasegawa; Toshihiko
Tanaka; Tsuneo
Terasawa; Aritoshi
Sugimoto |
An area for fabricating a photomask having light-shielding patterns each formed of an organic film, and areas for fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit device are provided within the same clean room. A manufacturing device and an inspecting device are commonly used upon the fabrication of the photomask and the fabrication of the semiconductor integrated circuit device. |
24 |
Protective layer for color proofs |
US09334796 |
1999-06-16 |
US06210844B1 |
2001-04-03 |
Manfred Adelhard Josef Sondergeld |
Element for laminating on color proofs, comprising a strippable support film A and a transparent, photoinsensitive protective layer B, containing at least one polymer having a melting point Tm of ≧50° C. and a glass transition temperature Tg of ≦0° C. |
25 |
Process for coating a solution onto a substrate |
US386773 |
1999-08-31 |
US6110320A |
2000-08-29 |
Frank Santo Principe; Jeffrey Glenn Innocenzo |
The invention relates to an apparatus and a method of using the apparatus for applying a substantially uniform coating of solution onto a substrate. The apparatus includes a substrate support having a compressible surface. |
26 |
Aqueous developable color proofing elements |
US862803 |
1997-05-23 |
US6010821A |
2000-01-04 |
Gordon Christopher Smith; Hamid Barjesteh; James Alan Bonham |
Water coatable and water developable negative-acting color proofing single sheet and overlay systems are described. The water-soluble photosensitive color layer employed in each type of proofing construction includes a photopolymerizable polymer having a weight-average molecular weight between 5,000 and 100,000; an alkaline soluble resin having a weight-average molecular weight between 1,000 and 200,000 and an acid number between 50 and 300; and a water-soluble photoinitiator. |
27 |
Pigment dispersion composition |
US844928 |
1997-04-22 |
US5942368A |
1999-08-24 |
Takeo Akiyama; Shinya Watanabe |
A composition dispersing a colorant is disclosed. The dispersion composition comprises a compound represented by formula; ##STR1## Detailed definition is disclosed in the specification. |
28 |
Image-forming material and method for forming transferred image |
US838033 |
1997-04-22 |
US5858609A |
1999-01-12 |
Yutaka Adachi; Kunio Shimizu; Tetsuya Masuda; Hideaki Mochizuki |
Disclosed are an image-forming material having a colored light-sensitive layer which may be divided into a colored layer and a light-sensitive layer on a transparent support, characterized in that a transparent support having an orientation angle in the range of -20.degree. to +20.degree. is selectively used, and a method for forming a transferred image using the same. |
29 |
Low optical dot gain color proof composites |
US787514 |
1997-01-21 |
US5763122A |
1998-06-09 |
Bruce W. Weeks |
As adhesive films are used over first down half-tone images, air can be entrapped between the dots on the first down image and the after applied adhesive film (e.g., with the next down image layer). The presence of the air as bubbles between the dots creates additional areas of reflection and refraction at air/film interfaces. The use of thin layers of adhesive with the properties according to the present invention has surprisingly been found to prevent or reduce formation of bubbles and thereby maintain the critical optical properties necessary in a proofing material. |
30 |
Photopolymerizable compositions having acyl or diacyl phosphine oxide
and a fluorescent optical brightner |
US435560 |
1995-05-05 |
US5707781A |
1998-01-13 |
Wojciech A. Wilczak |
The present invention relates a photopolymerizable composition which comprises: A) one or more ethylenically unsaturated, free-radical polymerizable monomers; B) one or more organic binders; and C) one or more photoinitiators, wherein the photoinitiator is an acyl or diacyl phosphine oxide, in combination with a fluorescent optical brightener; and a process for producing such a photopolymerizable composition. |
31 |
Method for preparing prepress color proof and intermediate receiver
element and carrier plate useful therein |
US717045 |
1996-09-20 |
US5705314A |
1998-01-06 |
Richard Julius Kapusniak; Colin Carl Campbell; Lawrence Philip Pate; David Alan Niemeyer |
A prepress color proof can be prepared using suitable donor elements and an intermediate receiver element that has a roughened outer image receiving layer so that the color image is transferred with high image resolution. The intermediate receiver element can also have a cushioning layer beneath the outer image receiving layer that reduces the tendency for entrapped dirt particles to form minus density spot defects. In addition, a unique carrier plate can be used to carry the donor and intermediate receiver elements through laminating equipment. This carrier plate has a thermoplastic adhesive layer with sufficient tackiness to prevent irreversible dimensional change during lamination. |
32 |
Method for making color filter elements using laminable colored
photosensitive materials |
US590266 |
1995-11-20 |
US5645963A |
1997-07-08 |
Jeffrey C. Chang |
Color filter elements are prepared by sequentially laminating, exposing and developing colored photoresist materials to form planar images on a transparent, non-birefringent substrate such as glass or polymeric film. Color filter elements are useful for elements in color displays such as liquid crystal display devices. |
33 |
Method for preparing prepress color proof and intermediate receiver
element and carrier plate useful therein |
US598448 |
1996-02-08 |
US5633116A |
1997-05-27 |
Richard J. Kapusniak; Colin C. Campbell; Lawrence P. Pate; David A. Niemeyer |
A prepress color proof can be prepared using suitable donor elements and an intermediate receiver element that has a roughened outer image receiving layer so that the color image is transferred with high image resolution. The intermediate receiver element can also have a cushioning layer beneath the outer image receiving layer that reduces the tendency for entrapped dirt particles to form minus density spot defects. In addition, a unique carrier plate can be used to carry the donor and intermediate receiver elements through laminating equipment. This carrier plate has a thermoplastic adhesive layer with sufficient tackiness to prevent irreversible dimensional change during lamination. |
34 |
Color image-formable material and process for preparing the same |
US309400 |
1994-09-20 |
US5609985A |
1997-03-11 |
Tetsuya Taniguchi; Kiyoshi Goto; Takeo Akiyama; Miyuki Hosoi; Tetsuya Masuda; Hideaki Mochizuku |
Disclosed are a color image-formable material which comprises a support, a cushion layer provided on the support and a color light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive composition and a coloring agent provided on the cushion layer and gives a transferred image by forming a color image portion by imagewise exposure and developing treatment and then transferring the color image portion alone to an image-receiving material,wherein the surface at a color light-sensitive layer side of the cushion layer has an average gloss (GS (60.degree. )) of 30 or more and the color light-sensitive layer is provided on the cushion layer, a process for preparing the same. |
35 |
Partially translucent white film having metallized surface |
US536889 |
1995-09-29 |
US5609945A |
1997-03-11 |
Robert J. von Trebra; Gerald A. Smith; Roy E. Hensel; Oliver A. Barton, deceased |
An image-bearing element comprising of a white, translucent, metallized film article wherein the film article comprises a flexible, heat resistant, polymeric film material with opposite sides. The film material has deposited on a first side a metal coating which both reflects and transmits visible light and capable of transmitting from about 1% to about 70% of incident visible light cast thereon. The second side of the film material has a white outermost surface and has a visible light opacity of from about 0.5 to about 0.98. |
36 |
Photosensitive transfer sheet |
US427165 |
1995-04-24 |
US5563020A |
1996-10-08 |
Mikio Totsuka; Takekatsu Sugiyama |
The present invention provides a photosensitive transfer sheet which does not generate cutting powder when the exposed and developed transfer sheet is cut with scissors as needed after forming an image. Additionally, no film floating and image disruption accompanied by a kink mark generated on handling the exposed and developed transfer sheet are observed. Furthermore, the above-described performance and transferability are maintained even under low humidity conditions. The photosensitive transfer sheet includes (a) a support having thereon (b) a peeling layer containing an organic polymer, the peeling layer having thereon (c) a photopolymerizable photosensitive resin layer, in which the peeling layer further contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formulae (1) and (2), ##STR1## |
37 |
Transfer process for forming a colored image utilizing a
non-photosensitive/photosensitive combination |
US315739 |
1994-09-30 |
US5534387A |
1996-07-09 |
Gregory A. Bodager; Phillip L. Beighle |
A process for forming on any printing stock, single colored and multi-colored images using the expose-in-register and laminate-in-register processes is described. Images having high quality, good resolution, and color flexibility not heretofore economically feasible are obtained using the process of the invention. |
38 |
Photosensitive material for the production of a colored image utilizing
adhesion promoting layer |
US288323 |
1994-08-10 |
US5529883A |
1996-06-25 |
Stephan J. W. Platzer; Andrea Buchmann; Gerhard Buhr |
A photosensitive material comprising (A) a flexible transparent film support, (B) a colored photosensitive layer which contains an organic binder (B1) a dye or a colored pigment (B2), a compound (B3), which forms a strong acid on exposure to radiation, and a compound (B4) which has at least one group cleavable by the acid, and (C) an adhesion-promoting layer which contains a thermoplastic polymer which has a softening temperature in the range from 40.degree. to 200.degree. C., wherein the adhesion (a.sub.1) of the unexposed photosensitive layer (B) to the adhesion-promoting layer (C) is less than the adhesion (a.sub.3) of the unexposed photosensitive layer (B) to the film support (A) and than the cohesions of the layers (B) and (C), and the adhesion (a.sub.3 ') of the exposed photosensitive layer (B) to the film support (A) is less than the adhesion (a.sub.1 ') of the exposed photosensitive layer (B) to the adhesion-promoting layer (C) and than the cohesions of the adhesion-promoting layer (C) and of the exposed photosensitive layer (B) is useful for the production of a colored image, in particular, is useful in a color proofing method for multicolor printing, which process gives images having high resolution. |
39 |
Photosensitive sheet comprising a substrate having a molecular
orientation ratio in the range of from 1.0 to 1.4 |
US41045 |
1993-03-31 |
US5529879A |
1996-06-25 |
Mitsuhide Hoshino; Fukuo Murata; Norio Yabe; Masahide Takano |
This invention relates to a photosensitive sheet having on a substrate one or more resin layers that are peelable from the substrate and heat-fusible, and a colored photosensitive layer in this order, said substrate comprising a biaxially stretched plastic film and having a molecular orientation ratio in the range of from 1.0 to 1.4.The object of this invention is to solve the problem of misregister without decreasing productivity during the formation of plastic film (substrate) or during the production of a photosensitive sheet in a method in which said photosensitive sheet having an image formed thereon and an image receiving sheet for receiving the image are superimposed on each other, and pressed and heated for image transfer. |
40 |
Process for the production of a color image utilizing transferred white
pigment layer |
US276798 |
1994-07-18 |
US5527654A |
1996-06-18 |
Martin Benzing; Dieter Mohr; Juergen Mertes; Peter Blum |
A process for the production of a color image is described, in which a photosensitive material that has a temporary support film, a colored photosensitive layer and an adhesion-promoting layer that can be activated by heat is laminated at high temperature and under pressure with an image-receiving material which carries, on a support, a pigment layer containing a white pigment. The photosensitive layer is exposed imagewise and developed to produce an image, the temporary support film is peeled off from the image-receiving material before or after exposure to light and, if required, these steps are repeated with at least one further photosensitive material whose colored layer has another color to produce a multi-colored image. The process gives color images having a smaller dot enlargement compared with a halftone original and is particularly suitable for the color testing of copy for multicolor printing. |