Patents by Inventor Harvey Walter Taylor
Harvey Walter Taylor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7041417Abstract: This invention relates to an image receiving layer (22) of a receiver element (20) for laser-induced thermal transfer imaging processes. The image receiving layer (22) is made from a formulation containing a caprolactone polymer and a cellulose ester. The invention is, typically, useful in proofing and color filter applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr.
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Patent number: 6881526Abstract: A process for adjusting the energy of an imaging laser for imaging of a thermally imageable element including the steps of: (a) providing an imaging unit having a non-imaging laser and an imaging laser, the non-imaging laser having a light detector which is in communication with the imaging laser, (b) contacting a receiver element with the thermally imageable element in the imaging unit, wherein the receiver element comprises a light attenuating layer having a front surface and a back surface; (c) actuating the non-imaging laser to expose the thermally imageable element and the receiver element to an amount of light energy sufficient for the light detector to detect the amount of light reflected from the thermally imageable element and light attenuating layer of the receiver element; and (d) actuating the imaging laser to focus the imaging laser in order to expose the thermally imageable element to an amount of light energy sufficient for imaging the thermally imageable element.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2001Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: John E. Bobeck, Richard Albert Coveleskie, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Alan Lee Shobert, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Harry Richard Zwicker
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Publication number: 20040048175Abstract: A process for adjusting the energy of an imaging laser for imaging of a thermally imageable element including the steps of: (a) providing an imaging unit having a non-imaging laser and an imaging laser, the non-imaging laser having a light detector which is in communication with the imaging laser, (b) contacting a receiver element with the thermally imageable element in the imaging unit, wherein the receiver element comprises a light attenuating layer having a front surface and a back surface; (c) actuating the non-imaging laser to expose the thermally imageable element and the receiver element to an amount of light energy sufficient for the light detector to detect the amount of light reflected from the thermally imageable element and light attenuating layer of the receiver element; and (d) actuating the imaging laser to focus the imaging laser in order to expose the thermally imageable element to an amount of light energy sufficient for imaging the thermally imageable elementType: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: John E. Bobeck, Richard Albert Coveleskie, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Alan Lee Shobert, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr, Harry Richard Zwicker
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Patent number: 6569585Abstract: Improved processes and products for laser thermal imaging are described. These improved processes and products utlilize an image rigidification element and significantly reduce halftone dot movement, swath boundary cracking and banding.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2002Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Jonathan V. Caspar, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory C. Weed, Rolf S. Gabrielsen
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Publication number: 20030064302Abstract: Improved processes and products for laser thermal imaging are described. These improved processes and products utlilize an image rigidification element and significantly reduce halftone dot movement, swath boundary cracking and banding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Jonathan V. Caspar, Harvey Walter Taylor, Gregory C. Weed, Rolf S. Gabrielsen
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Patent number: 6407037Abstract: A receiver element for use in a thermal imaging process, wherein a surface of a pigment-image receiving layer of the receiver element has a roughness, and the surface is brought into contact with a thermally imageable element, wherein the pigment-image receiving layer provided on the receiver element has an average roughness (Ra) of less than about 1&mgr; and has surface irregularities having a plurality of peaks, at least about 50 of the peaks having a height of at least about 200 nm and a diameter of about 100 pixels over a surface area of about 458&mgr; by about 602&mgr;. These roughened receiver elements substantially reduce the micro-dropouts.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2000Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: E. I. duPont de Nemours And CompanyInventors: David N. Prugh, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr.
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Patent number: 6365305Abstract: A combination digital/analog color proofing method having the steps of: digitally forming a color thermal image on a receiver element comprising a receiver support and an image receiving layer; laminating the digitally formed image with a film comprising a support having a release surface and a thermoplastic polymer layer; removing the support thereby revealing the thermoplastic polymer layer, and leaving the digitally formed image encased between the image receiving layer and the thermoplastic polymer layer; and laminating an analog color image to the revealed thermoplastic polymer layer to create a color proof having at least two color images.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Daphne Pinto Fickes, Harry R. Zwicker
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Publication number: 20020022187Abstract: Improved processes and products for laser thermal imaging are described. These improved processes and products utlilize an image rigidification element and significantly reduce halftone dot movement, swath boundary cracking and banding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Jonathan V. Caspar, Harvey Walter Taylor, Gregory C. Weed, Rolf S. Gabrielsen
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Patent number: 6294308Abstract: Improved processes and products for laser thermal imaging are described. These improved processes and products utilize an image rigidification element and significantly reduce halftone dot movement, swath boundary cracking and banding.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Jonathan V. Caspar, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory C. Weed, Rolf S. Gabrielsen
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Patent number: 6165654Abstract: A combination digital/analog color proofing method having the steps of: digitally forming a color thermal image on a receiver element comprising a receiver support and an image receiving layer; laminating the digitally formed image with a film comprising a support having a release surface and a thermoplastic polymer layer; removing the support thereby revealing the thermoplastic polymer layer, and leaving the digitally formed image encased between the image receiving layer and the thermoplastic polymer layer; and laminating an analog color image to the revealed thermoplastic polymer layer to create a color proof having at least two color images.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Daphne Pinto Fickes
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Patent number: 6100006Abstract: A peel-apart photosensitive element comprising in order: a strippable cover sheet; a photosensitive layer; an essentially non-photosensitive, non-tacky organic layer comprised of block or random polymers of at least one aromatic polymer and at least one non-aromatic monomer; and a support, wherein the photosensitive layer has a lowered peel force in relation to the cover sheet after exposure to actinic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1999Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory Charles Weed
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Patent number: 6080525Abstract: A method for forming images on a substrate wherein imaging is performed on a photosensitive element, the method including the steps of (a) providing a photosensitive element having a support, a dry strippable layer and a first photosensitive layer, wherein the dry strippable release layer is present between the support and the photosensitive layer; (b) imaging the photosensitive element; (c) toning to form a photosensitive element having an imagewise toned surface; (d) applying an additional photosensitive layer to the imagewise toned surface of the photosensitive element; (e) forming a final imaged element by removing the support from the toned, photosensitive element; and (f) placing the final imaged element on the substrate to form a final image on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Daphne Pinto Fickes, Jeffrey Wayne Milner, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr.
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Patent number: 6071669Abstract: An element containing, in order: a first strippable substrate; a substantially transparent, non-photosensitive, polymeric isolation layer having a coating weight of 10 to 150 mg/dm.sup.2 ; an essentially non-photosensitive, non-tacky organic layer having a coating weight of 25 to 200 mg/dm.sup.2 ; a pigmented photosensitive, preferably photopolymerizable layer; and a second different strippable substrate adjacent the photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive layer upon imagewise exposure to actinic radiation exhibits a lowered peel force relative to a system which does not have a polymeric isolation layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1999Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory Charles Weed
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Patent number: 6001532Abstract: A peel-apart photosensitive element comprising in order: a strippable cover sheet; a photosensitive layer; an essentially non-photosensitive, non-tacky organic layer comprised of block or random polymers of at least one aromatic polymer and at least one non-aromatic monomer; and a support, wherein the photosensitive layer has a lowered peel force in relation to the cover sheet after exposure to actinic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: E.I. Dupont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory Charles Weed
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Patent number: 5965321Abstract: An element containing, in order: a first strippable substrate; a substantially transparent, non-photosensitive, polymeric isolation layer having a coating weight of 10 to 150 mg/dm.sup.2 ; an essentially non-photosensitive, non-tacky organic layer having a coating weight of 25 to 200 mg/dm.sup.2 ; a pigmented photosensitive, preferably photopolymerizable layer; and a second different strippable substrate adjacent the photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive layer upon imagewise exposure to actinic radiation exhibits a lowered peel force relative to a system which does not have a polymeric isolation layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: E. U. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory Charles Weed
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Patent number: 5939232Abstract: An element containing, in order: a first strippable substrate; a substantially transparent, non-photosensitive, polymeric isolation layer having a coating weight of 10 to 150 mg/dm.sup.2 ; an elastomeric layer having a coating weight of 25 to 200 mg/dm.sup.2 ; a pigmented photosensitive, preferably photopolymerizable layer; and a second different strippable substrate adjacent the photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive layer upon imagewise exposure to actinic radiation exhibits a lowered peel force relative to a system which does not have a polymeric isolation layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Dennis James Bellville, Richard Albert Coveleskie, Scott Dixon McCalmont, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Gregory Charles Weed
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Patent number: 5741621Abstract: A process for preparing an image on a substrate by applying a photoimageable composition on a first substrate, wherein the photoimageable composition, having a solids content from 25 to 60 weight percent, contains a partially neutralized acid-containing polymer formed from a precursor polymer having an acid number from 90 to 160 prior to neutralization and wherein 1 to 15% of acid-containing groups of the precursor polymer are neutralized with base; an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; a photoinitiator or photoinitiating system, water; 0-5% by weight a solution polymer, based on the weight of total polymer present in the composition; and 0-25% by weight of an organic solvent based on the total weight of the organic solvent and water; wherein the liquid composition is present as a stable emulsion, and wherein the liquid composition has a Brookfield viscosity, at 25.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1996Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Richard Joseph Kempf, John Haetak Choi, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr.