Specialized Heat Source Contacting Layer (i.e., Back Layer) On Support Patents (Class 428/32.64)
  • Patent number: 11084247
    Abstract: A resin molded sheet includes: a base material made of resin; a first thermal expansion layer including a thermally expandable material and provided on a first surface of the base material; and a second thermal expansion layer including a thermally expandable material and provided on a second surface of the base material, wherein the first thermal expansion layer is provided at least on a first region, where the base material is deformed by the first thermal expansion layer, on the first surface of the base material, and the second thermal expansion layer is provided at least in a second region, where the base material is deformed by the second thermal expansion layer, on the second surface of the base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9180714
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-sensitive transfer recording medium having a base material, and an undercoating layer and a dye layer sequentially laminated and formed on the base material. The undercoating layer is formed by applying and then drying an undercoating layer-forming application liquid containing polyvinyl pyrrolidone and polyvinyl alcohol whose tensile strength measured based on JIS K 7113 is not lower than 8 kg/mm2. The dye layer is formed by applying and then drying a dye layer-forming application liquid containing an anthraquinone compound as a thermal migratory dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Ono, Yasuo Sugishita, Takehito Yamato, Akihiko Ito, Ken Oshinomi
  • Patent number: 9174478
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer recording medium capable of obtaining high transfer sensitivity during high-speed printing, that is, decreasing the amount of a dye used in a dye layer; and preventing abnormal transfer during printing even after storage in a high-temperature and high-humidity environment. The thermal transfer recording medium (1) contains: a heat-resistant sliding layer (40) that is formed on one surface of a substrate (10); and an undercoat layer (20) and a dye layer (30) that are sequentially laminated on the other surface of the substrate (10), in which the undercoat layer (20) contains, as major components, a polyvinyl pyrrolidone and a polyvinyl alcohol having a crystallinity degree of 15% or higher, and the dye layer (30) contains an anthraquinone-based thermal transfer dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Godai Fukunaga, Makiko Nitanai, Yasuo Sugishita, Junichi Arai, Yoko Hirai, Emi Ando
  • Patent number: 8992105
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating customized labels having electronic circuitry such as RFID circuitry. A printing system generates the label by selectively transfer printing elements (e.g., electronic circuitry, physical components, etc.) and donor layers (e.g., conductive materials, non-conductive materials, etc.) from a ribbon to a receiver (e.g., an item that receives the indicia). In addition, the printing system can program and test the label or indicia thereof, thereby providing the ability to customize each label according to predetermined criteria and to ensure that each label functions properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Inventor: William Berson
  • Patent number: 8986796
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet that includes a heat-resistant slipping layer and a colorant layer, the heat-resistant slipping layer and the colorant layer being formable in an in-line process, has excellent heat resistance, and can suppress tailing. The thermal transfer sheet includes a substrate, a colorant layer provided on one surface of the substrate, and a heat-resistant slipping layer provided on the surface of the substrate opposite to the colorant layer, wherein the heat-resistant slipping layer contains at least a binder resin containing an amino group-containing acrylic resin and an epoxysilane, and a slipping agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzu Imakura, Yasushi Yoneyama, Yusaku Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8951933
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polysiloxane-modified polyhydroxy polyurethane resin characterized by being derived from a reaction between a 5-membered cyclic carbonate polysiloxane compound represented by the below-described formula (1) and an amine compound, and its production process; and a resin composition, thermal recording medium, imitation leather, thermoplastic polyolefin resin skin material, weather strip material, and weather strip, all of which make use of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd., Ukima Chemicals & Color Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hanada, Kazuya Kimura, Kenichi Takahashi, Osamu Kawakami, Manabu Uruno
  • Publication number: 20150031156
    Abstract: A donor substrate for transfer is disclosed. In some embodiments, the donor substrate for transfer includes a base layer, a light-heat conversion layer on the base layer, an intermediate layer on the light-heat conversion layer, and a transfer layer on the intermediate layer, in which the intermediate layer includes a transfer part and a non-transfer part, and in the transfer part and the non-transfer part, surface roughness of the intermediate layer is in a range of 30 nanometers or more and 1 micrometer or less. Methods of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode display are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-Gil Kwon
  • Publication number: 20140356556
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer recording medium capable of obtaining high transfer sensitivity during high-speed printing, that is, decreasing the amount of a dye used in a dye layer; and preventing abnormal transfer during printing even after storage in a high-temperature and high-humidity environment. The thermal transfer recording medium (1) contains: a heat-resistant sliding layer (40) that is formed on one surface of a substrate (10); and an undercoat layer (20) and a dye layer (30) that are sequentially laminated on the other surface of the substrate (10), in which the undercoat layer (20) contains, as major components, a polyvinyl pyrrolidone and a polyvinyl alcohol having a crystallinity degree of 15% or higher, and the dye layer (30) contains an anthraquinone-based thermal transfer dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Godai Fukunaga, Makiko Nitanai, Yasuo Sugishita, Junichi Arai, Yoko Hirai, Emi Ando
  • Patent number: 8895119
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal transfer sheet capable of forming an image having excellent glossiness, and having no printing wrinkle or having a lesser possibility of generating wrinkles. A thermal transfer sheet in which a dyestuff layer or a transcriptive protective layer is formed on one surface of a substrate and a back face layer is formed on another surface of the substrate, wherein the back face layer contains (A) a resin of which weight-average molecular weight (Mw) is more than 15,000; (B) a resin of which weight-average molecular weight (Mw) is not more than 15,000; and (C) a lubricant ingredient; and wherein the (B) resin is contained at an amount range of 3% by weight to 40% by weight on the basis of the total solid content weight of the back face layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzu Muraki, Yasushi Yoneyama, Yusaku Akiyama, Munenori Ieshige
  • Patent number: 8846168
    Abstract: A thermal transfer film includes a light-to-heat conversion layer including a binder and a dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Hyo Lee, Hyoung Tae Lim, Kyoung Ku Kang, Si Kyun Park
  • Patent number: 8669204
    Abstract: A composition for a protection layer for a thermal transfer ribbon which is free of solvents and which contains an acrylate oligomer or polymer having a functionality lower than or equal to 3, a di- or triacrylate monomer and a slip agent which are UV-crosslinkable in the presence of a photoinitiator, capable of forming, after coating on a backing film and after UV crosslinking, a protection layer having a thickness lower than 1 ?m. The layer has a good adhesiveness and a low friction coefficient. The composition can particularly be used for the back (5) of a thermal transfer ribbon (1) applied on a surface of the backing film (2), the other surface of the film receiving at least one ink layer (3), while imparting flexibility and thermal and mechanical resistance to the ribbon (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Armor
    Inventors: Christophe Derennes, Pierre Guichard
  • Publication number: 20130287974
    Abstract: A thermal transfer film includes a light-to-heat conversion layer including a binder and a dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jung Hyo Lee, Hyoung Tae Lim, Kyoung Ku Kang, Si Kyun Park
  • Publication number: 20130171379
    Abstract: A thermal transfer film and an organic electroluminescent display manufactured using the thermal transfer film, the thermal transfer film including a base layer; and a transfer enhancement layer having a surface energy of about 25 dyne/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Hyoung Tae LIM, Kyoung Ku KANG, Jung Hyo LEE, Seong Heun CHO, Si Kyun PARK, Se Hyun PARK
  • Patent number: 8460849
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, having, on a transparent support, a lenticular lens and at least one receptor layer in which the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet has a subbing layer which contains a resin that is identical with at least one resin constituting the lenticular lens, on the side of the transparent support opposite to the side on which the lenticular lens is provided, and the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet has a receptor layer containing a latex polymer on the subbing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki Ohtani, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130142969
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet comprising: a substrate; a heat resistant slip layer provided on one side of the substrate; an undercoat layer and a dye layer provided in that order on the other side of the substrate, wherein the undercoat layer is formed by using colloidal inorganic pigment ultrafine particles and a copolymer resin of vinyl pyrrolidone and vinyl acetate as main components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMASHITA, Tadahiro ISHIDA, Keiji HIROSE, Hirotaka WATANABE, Toshikazu KUWABARA, Daisuke FUKUI, Hideo ITO
  • Patent number: 8445173
    Abstract: A method of producing a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, having the steps of: conveying a transparent support by web handling; providing at least one receptor layer on the transparent support; and drying the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, in which the at least one receptor layer contains a latex polymer having a weighted average glass transition temperature of 30° C. or more, the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet is dried at a temperature that is higher than the weighted average glass transition temperature by 30° C. or more, and the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet has a lenticular lens on the side of the transparent support opposite to the side on which the receptor layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki Ohtani, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130095259
    Abstract: [Problems] To provide a laser-marking film having a laser-marking ink layer capable of forming vivid images when it is irradiated with a laser beam for forming laser markings. [Means for Solution] A laser-marking film comprising a base film 1, a white underlying layer 3 formed on the base film 1, and an ink layer 5 for laser marking formed on the underlying layer 3, wherein the ink layer 5 contains, dispersed therein, an iron oxide as a laser beam-absorbing agent in an amount of 0.1 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of a resin binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji Fukue, Atsushi Fukahori, Machiko Sugiyama, Shinji Tanka, Jun Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8298988
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains at least one type of silicone compound represented by Chemical formula 1 or Chemical formula 2 described below. In Chemical formula 1 and Chemical formula 2, R1 contains an alkyl group, an alkylene group, or a phenyl group and may have an ether or ester bond, R2 represents an alkyl group or an alkylene group having the carbon number of 1 to 50, and n and m represent individually an integer of 1 or more, and or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20120237701
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polysiloxane-modified polyhydroxy polyurethane resin derived from a reaction between a 5-membered cyclic carbonate compound and an amine-modified polysiloxane compound, and its production process; and a resin composition, thermal recording medium, imitation leather, thermoplastic polyolefin resin skin material, weather strip material, and weather strip, all of which make use of the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicants: UKIMA CHEMICALS & COLOR MFG. CO., LTD., DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hanada, Kazuya Kimura, Kenichi Takahashi, Osamu Kawakami, Manabu Uruno
  • Patent number: 8268416
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a base material sheet, a thermal transfer dye layer, which is disposed on one surface of the base material sheet and which contains a dye, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer disposed on the other surface of the base material sheet, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer is formed from a binder, in which a specific amount of at least one of a polyvinyl acetal having a softening point of 262° C. or higher and a glass transition temperature of 106° C. or higher and cellulose acetate propionate and a specific amount of polyamide imide silicone are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Patent number: 8039192
    Abstract: A transfer substrate includes a base layer, a light-reflecting layer pattern, a light-to-heat conversion layer and a transfer layer. The transfer layer is formed on the light-to-heat conversion layer. A line shaped laser beam may be scanned over the entire area of the transfer substrate to transfer designated portions of the transfer layer onto designated electrodes on an array substrate to make an organic electroluminescent display. Thus, processing time may be reduced, and an organic electroluminescent element may be efficiently formed on a large-size substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Koo Chung, Chang-Woong Chu, Joo-Hyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 7955775
    Abstract: An image-forming method: by superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet so that a receptor layer can be contacted with a thermal transfer layer; and providing thermal energy in accordance with image signals; in which the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet comprises the receptor layer containing one of polyester and/or polycarbonate polymers, vinyl chloride polymers and/or a polymer latex; and in which the heat-sensitive transfer sheet comprises the thermal transfer layer containing a dye represented by formula (1) or (2): wherein, X141 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or NR146; X142 represents a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, or NHR147; R141 to R154 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; A151 represents a group of atoms necessary to form a hetero ring together with the two carbon atoms; and n153 represents an integer of 0 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Shinohara, Yoshihiko Fujie, Yoshihisa Tsukada
  • Patent number: 7931413
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating customized labels having electronic circuitry such as RFID circuitry. A printing system generates the label by selectively transfer printing elements (e.g., electronic circuitry, physical components, etc.) and donor layers (e.g., conductive materials, non-conductive materials, etc.) from a ribbon to a receiver (e.g., an item that receives the indicia). In addition, the printing system can program and test the label or indicia thereof, thereby providing the ability to customize each label according to predetermined criteria and to ensure that each label functions properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Inventor: William Berson
  • Patent number: 7887987
    Abstract: A transfer substrate includes a transfer material layer on a support substrate via a light absorbing layer. Antireflection patterns for preventing light reflection on an interface of the support substrate and the light absorbing layer are provided between the support substrate and the light absorbing layer. Thickness of this antireflection patterns is set to a value with which an absorptance of light having a predetermined wavelength absorbed in the light absorbing layer is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Keisuke Matsuo
  • Patent number: 7833938
    Abstract: To provide a thermal-transfer sheet having a back layer that can be prepared without heat treatment such as aging and is superior in heat resistance and sliding property, and has no such defect of printed images as wrinkling and tailing during printing. A thermal-transfer sheet having a substrate film, a transfer ink layer formed on one face thereof, and a back layer formed on the other face thereof, the back layer comprising: a binder containing a polyamide-imide resin (A) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher and a polyamide-imide silicone resin (B) having a Tg of 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yunoki, Daisuke Fukui, Makoto Hashiba
  • Patent number: 7829162
    Abstract: A thermal transfer printing medium that contains a thermal transfer layer which contains a first taggant and colorant, wherein: the first taggant comprises a fluorescent compound with an excitation wavelength selected from the group consisting of wavelengths of less than 400 nanometers, wavelengths of greater than 700 nanometers. When the thermal transfer layer is printed onto a white polyester substrate with a gloss of at least about 84, a surface smoothness Rz value of 1.2, and a reflective color represented by a chromaticity (a) of 1.91 and (b) of ?6.79 and a lightness (L) of 95.63, when expressed by the CIE Lab color coordinate system, and when such printing utilizes a printing speed of 2.5 centimeters per second and a printing energy of 3.2 joules per square centimeter, a printed substrate with certain properties is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: international imagining materials, inc
    Inventors: Jennifer Eskra, Pamela A. Geddes, Daniel J. Harrison, Claire A. Jalbert, Barry L. Marginean, John Przybylo
  • Patent number: 7763411
    Abstract: A donor element useful in an assemblage for imaging by exposure to light comprises a support layer, a light-to-heat conversion layer disposed adjacent the support layer containing a light absorber, and a transfer layer disposed adjacent the light-to-heat conversion layer opposite the support layer. The donor element also includes a release-modifier disposed between the support layer and the transfer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Thomas C. Felder, Robert William Eveson, Christopher Ferguson, James R. Joiner, Moira Logan, Richard Paul Pankratz, Fredrick Claus Zumsteg, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7678739
    Abstract: To provide a thermal transfer sheet having a back layer excellent in heat resistance and slipping properties and causing no wrinkling at printing and no image-defect by tailing, the sheet being able to be prepared without a heat treating, such as aging. A thermal transfer sheet, comprising a substrate film, a transfer ink layer formed on one face thereof, and a back layer formed on the other face thereof, wherein the back layer comprises: a mixed binder containing a polyamide-imide resin (A) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher as determined by differential thermal analysis and a polyamide-imide silicone resin (B) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher; a mixture of a polyvalent metal salt of alkylphosphoric ester (C) and a metal salt of alkylcarboxylic acid (D), a silicone oil (E); and an inorganic filler (F).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hashiba, Daisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20100003429
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal transfer sheet that can meet demands for increased printing speed in thermal transfer, higher density of thermally transferred images, and higher quality. The thermal transfer sheet comprises a substrate and an adhesive layer and a dye layer provided in that order on one side of the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a polyvinylpyrrolidone resin and a composition for suppressing hygroscopic properties of the polyvinylpyrrolidone resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuaki Odaka, Munenori Ieshige, Mitsuru Maeda, Kenichi Hirota, Masahiro Yuki
  • Publication number: 20090280275
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains at least one type of silicone compound represented by Chemical formula 1 or Chemical formula 2 described below. In Chemical formula 1 and Chemical formula 2, R1 contains an alkyl group, an alkylene group, or a phenyl group and may have an ether or ester bond, R2 represents an alkyl group or an alkylene group having the carbon number of 1 to 50, and n and m represent individually an integer of 1 or more, and or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20090246423
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer sheet, containing a substrate, at least one thermal transfer layer containing a thermally transferable dye and a resin, disposed on one surface of the substrate, and a heat-resistant slipping layer disposed on another surface of the substrate, wherein said at least one thermal transfer layer contains at least one kind of polymer type releasing agent having a mass-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000 and also having a fluorine-substituted aliphatic group at a side chain of the polymer, and at least one kind of non-polymer type fluorine-system surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Hideyuki Shirai, Hidekazu Sakai, Hisato Nagase
  • Publication number: 20090202754
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal transfer sheet which has a conductive primer layer having adequate adhesion and heat resistance without using a binder resin, has an excellent antistatic property, and hardly causes troubles in printing. The present invention pertains to a thermal transfer sheet formed by providing a thermally-transferable color material layer on one side of a substrate sheet and providing a heat resistant slipping layer on the other side of the substrate sheet with a primer layer interposed between the slipping layer and the substrate sheet, wherein the primer layer is formed by using a conductive colloidal inorganic pigment ultrafine particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20090148618
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions derived from a polycarboxylic acid, a polyhydroxy compound, a dye and a basic crosslinking agent. The compositions can be used to prepare cross-linked films that exhibit low solvent-swell characteristics. The cross-linked films can be used to prepare color filter elements via thermal transfer processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Brian M. Fish, Alex Sergey Lonkin
  • Publication number: 20090130348
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal transfer sheet which has a high transfer sensitivity in thermal transfer printing to obtain a high density print, has a high sharpness of thermal transfer images, can prevent an abnormal transfer in printing even after being stored at high temperature and high humidity, and can provide a sufficiently satisfactory printed matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Tadahiro Ishida, Keiji Hirose, Hirotaka Watanabe, Toshikazu Kuwabara, Daisuke Fukui, Hideo Ito
  • Patent number: 7534546
    Abstract: An image-forming method having: superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on an image-receiving sheet so that a receptor layer can be contacted with a thermal transfer layer; and providing thermal energy in accordance with image signals given from a thermal head; in which the heat-sensitive transfer sheet is a sheet containing the thermal transfer layer that contains a colorant and at least one polyester as a binder component of the thermal transfer layer, in which at least one-second by molar ratio of the acid component of said polyester is terephtharic acid, or a sheet containing a thermal transfer layer that contains a colorant on one surface of a substrate film and a heat-resistant sliding layer formed so as to contain a hardener on the other surface of the substrate film; and the image-receiving sheet contains, on a support, the receptor layer that contains one of polyester and/or polycarbonate polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Oguma, Takuya Arai, Yoshihisa Tsukada, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Toshihide Yoshitani, Masataka Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20090087598
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer sheet containing a base film, a dye layer formed over one surface of the base film and containing a heat-transferable dye and a resin, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer formed over the other surface of the base film and containing inorganic particles and a resin, wherein the inorganic particles contained in the heat-resistant lubricating layer has a Mohs' hardness of 3 to 7 and a mean particle size of 0.3 to 5 ?m, and the ratio of the maximum width of each of the inorganic particles to the sphere equivalent diameter thereof is from 1.5 to 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akito YOKOZAWA
  • Patent number: 7501382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side a dye layer and on a second side a slipping layer, wherein the slipping layer comprises a first wax comprising a polymer derived from a polyolefin and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or ester or anhydride thereof, and at least one other wax and wherein the dye layer comprises at least a magenta dye of the Structure I: wherein the dye donor element has reduced 2× retransfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David G. Foster, William B. Vreeland, Richard P. Henzel
  • Publication number: 20090060131
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer sheet containing a base film, a dye layer formed over one surface of the base film and containing a heat-transferable dye and a resin, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer formed over the other surface of the base film and containing a lubricant and a resin, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains a specific phosphate ester as the lubricant, and the maximum value of the following characteristic X-ray intensities is at least 5 times the minimum value thereof: characteristic X-ray intensities obtained by radiating an electron beam which is accelerated to 20 kV and has a beam diameter of 1 ?m or less onto plural positions of the heat-sensitive transfer sheet from the heat-resistant lubricating layer side of this sheet, and measuring the resultant characteristic X-rays originating from the K-line of the phosphorus element in the heat-resistant lubricating layer by an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akito YOKOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090041957
    Abstract: To provide a thermal transfer sheet having a back layer excellent in heat resistance and slipping properties and causing no wrinkling at printing and no image-defect by tailing, the sheet being able to be prepared without a heat treating, such as aging. A thermal transfer sheet, comprising a substrate film, a transfer ink layer formed on one face thereof, and a back layer formed on the other face thereof, wherein the back layer comprises: a mixed binder containing a polyamide-imide resin (A) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher as determined by differential thermal analysis and a polyamide-imide silicone resin (B) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher; a mixture of a polyvalent metal salt of alkylphosphoric ester (C) and a metal salt of alkylcarboxylic acid (D), a silicone oil (E); and an inorganic filler (F).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Makoto Hashiba, Daisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20090022913
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the provision of a thermal transfer sheet that can realize a high maximum transfer density in printing, does not cause blocking during storage in a roll form, can suppress, in a roll form, the transfer of a dye onto a backside layer, which faces the dye layer, does not cause an abnormal transfer in which, in printing on an object, the dye is transferred together with a dye layer onto the object, can further reduce the density in a highlight part in printing, and can form printed matter which is excellent in reproduction of gradation from highlight to shadow without any trouble. The thermal transfer sheet comprises a base material, a heat resistant slip layer provided on one side of the base material, and a dye layer provided on the other side of the base material, wherein the dye layer comprises a binder resin having a loss modulus at 60° C. of not less than 107 Pa, a loss modulus at 100° C. of not less than 106 Pa and a loss modulus at 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Tomoko Araki, Munenori Ieshige
  • Publication number: 20090017236
    Abstract: Two-sided thermal media comprising thermal transfer receptive and/or direct thermal thermally sensitive coatings on one or both of a first and a second side thereof are provided. In one embodiment, two-sided thermal media comprising a substrate having a first side and a second side, opposite the first side, and a first and a second thermal transfer receptive coating supported on the respective first and second substrate sides is provided. In another embodiment, two-sided thermal media comprising a substrate having a thermal transfer receptive coating on a first side thereof, and a direct thermal thermally sensitive coating on a second side thereof, is provided. In some embodiments, a direct thermal thermally sensitive coating provided on one or both sides of two-sided thermal media is adapted to image at a temperature different than a temperature at which thermal transfer printing has or can occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Mark E. Keeton, Yaoping Tan, Matthew A. McLaughlin, Jeffery S. Denton, Timothy W. Rawlings, Richard D. Puckett, Paul C. Blank
  • Patent number: 7371444
    Abstract: In the present invention, there are obtained aliphatic polyesters having a controlled thermal decomposing property, hydrolizability, and biodegradability, in which OH terminals and COOR terminals are decreased to 50% and 30%, respectively, through a ring-opening polymerization of a lactone and lactide by a mono alcohol having a high boiling point or a metal alkoxide, or by further decreasing both terminals through combining produced polymer terminals with a diisocyanate and, from a composition containing the polyesters, there is obtained a particle-state composition for agriculture and gardening in which a duration period of a fertilizing effect can be controlled, and which is not remained in soil by decomposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuteru Kajikawa
  • Patent number: 7371443
    Abstract: A multilayer laser transfer film for permanently inscribing parts made from at least one backing layer, where on at least part of the underside of the backing layer there is a first adhesion layer, characterized in that, on the backing-layer side of the laser transfer film, this being the location of the first adhesion layer, there are at least two pigment layers, preferably a first pigment layer applied to at least part of the material and comprising at least one glass flux pigment, and a second pigment layer applied to at least part of the material and comprising at least one laser-sensitive pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Tesa AG
    Inventors: Arne Koops, Sven Reiter
  • Publication number: 20080069982
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal transfer sheet that can meet demands for increased printing speed in thermal transfer, higher density of thermally transferred images, and higher quality. The thermal transfer sheet comprises a substrate and an adhesive layer and a dye layer provided in that order on one side of the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a polyvinylpyrrolidone resin and a composition for suppressing hygroscopic properties of the polyvinylpyrrolidone resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuaki Odaka, Munenori Ieshige, Mitsuru Maeda, Kenichi Hirota, Masahiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 7288301
    Abstract: A thermal ink ribbon has a base sheet, a thermal recording layer arranged on one side of the base sheet, and a back layer arranged on an opposite side of the base sheet. The back layer according to the present invention comprises a polyurethane resin which is obtained by reacting a low molecular weight polymer having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group at one end of the molecule, a compound having at least one active-hydrogen group and at least one hydrophilic group except a hydroxide group, with a polyisocyanate. The back layer is excellent in the adhesiveness to a base sheet, the heat resistance relative to a thermal head and slipperiness to a thermal head; and the ink ribbon with such a back layer has no problems in printed characters and figures on printing, in the migration of impurities from the back layer into an ink layer, in smeariness of a thermal head and in its maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignees: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd., Ukima Colour & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawaguchi, Kazuyuki Hanada, Katsutoshi Torii, Motoaki Umezu, Tomoaki Kamita
  • Patent number: 7226890
    Abstract: A thermal printing ribbon that has reduced or no wrinkling during printing includes inorganic particles in a polymeric host material in at least one layer of the ribbon. The ribbon has improved mechanical and thermal properties as compared to ribbons not incorporating the inorganic particles. The ribbon can be used to form images on a dye-receiver element wherein the images have few or no artifacts caused by wrinkling of the thermal printing ribbon. The ribbon can be used in high speed printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Zhanjun Gao, Yuanqiao Rao, William H. Simpson, Debasis Majumdar, John F. Corman
  • Patent number: 7211364
    Abstract: A thermally conductive material, a donor element including the material, a method of printing using the donor element, and a print assembly including the donor element are described, wherein the thermally conductive material includes at least two immiscible or incompatible organic polymers, or a block or graft copolymer, wherein the constituent homopolymer repeat units that form the copolymer are prepared from chemical species that would form mutually immiscible or incompatible polymers, and thermally conductive particles having a short axis of less than or equal to 0.2 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Linda M. Franklin
  • Patent number: 7138163
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet which can surely prevent printing-derived cockling, fusing to a thermal head or the like caused by thermal head-derived thermal damage to a primer layer provided between a substrate sheet and a heat-resistant slip layer and, at the same time, can meet a demand for a reduction in thickness of the thermal transfer sheet and has a high level of suitability for high-speed printing. The thermal transfer sheet comprises: a substrate sheet; a colorant layer provided on one side of the substrate sheet; and a heat-resistant slip layer provided on the other side of the substrate sheet through a primer layer. The primer layer comprises a binder resin satisfying a G?a/G?b ratio value of not more than 100 wherein G?a represents the storage modulus of the binder resin at 80° C., Pa; and G?b represents the storage modulus of the binder resin at 140° C., Pa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Munenori Ieshige, Taro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7078366
    Abstract: A dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof a dye layer and on the other side a slipping layer comprising a material comprising a maleic anhydride polyethylene graft copolymer and at least one other d hydrocarbon wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David G. Foster, Maurice L. Gray
  • Patent number: 7067457
    Abstract: A dye-donor element including a dye-donor layer is described, wherein the dye-donor element includes a stick preventative agent. The dye-donor element is capable of printing an image on a receiver element at a line speed of 2 ms/line or less while maintaining a print density of at least two, and a print to fail value of at least four. A print assembly including the dye-donor element and a receiver element is also described, as well as a method of printing using the dye-donor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David G. Foster, Maurice L. Gray, Teh-Ming Kung, William M. York, III, Brian T. Pope