Multiple Resins In Transfer Layer Patents (Class 428/32.86)
  • Patent number: 10207481
    Abstract: In a transfer film including a temporary support having a thickness of 38 ?m or less; and a curable transparent resin layer disposed on the temporary support in a direct-contact manner, in which a thickness of the curable transparent resin layer is 5 ?m or more, the curable transparent resin layer includes a binder polymer, a polymerizable compound, and a polymerization initiator, and a melt viscosity ?c of the curable transparent resin layer measured at 100° C. is 1.0×103 Pa·s or more, the temporary support and the curable transparent resin layer are in direct contact with each other, and it is possible to prevent the incorporation of air bubbles during lamination on base materials having an elevation difference; a method for manufacturing a laminate; a laminate; an electrostatic capacitance-type input device; and an image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Kanna, Shinichi Yoshinari
  • Patent number: 8709556
    Abstract: A heat transfer label assembly includes a heat transfer label including ink and adhesive, and a releasable support joined to the heat transfer label. The adhesive may include at least one of a polyketone resin and a polyamide resin. The heat transfer label may be used to decorate a metal article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: MCC-Norwood, LLC
    Inventors: Saifuddin M. Ansari, Ignatius S. Yee, Douglas L. Barnhardt, Robert J. Wojewoda
  • Patent number: 8577267
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer member including an optional supporting substrate, and in contact with the supporting substrate in the configuration of a layer a polyarylsulfone, a polyetheramine, and nano-size zinc oxide particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Yuhua Tong
  • Patent number: 8470116
    Abstract: Method of making a heat transfer materials are generally provided, along with the materials and the methods of using the materials. A splittable layer can be formed to overlie a base sheet, and an image-receptive coating can be formed to overlie the splittable layer. The image-receptive coating can include thermoplastic microparticles, a thermoplastic binder, and a humectant. The thermoplastic microparticles can be styrene particles having an average particle size of from about 5 microns to about 80 microns and melt at temperatures between about 90° C. and about 115° C. A second thermoplastic microparticle can also be included in the image-receptive coating. Alternatively, a combination of thermoplastic polyester microparticles and thermoplastic polyamide microparticles can be included in the image-receptive coating. The heat transfer material can then be dried. The humectant is configured to draw moisture back into the heat transfer sheet after drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Neenah Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Dolsey
  • 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
  • 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: 20130052375
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer member that includes a mixture of a thermoplastic polyimide, a polybenzimidazole, and an optional conductive filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jin WU
  • Patent number: 8377523
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer media, such as a belt, that includes a first supporting substrate, such as a polyimide substrate layer, and a second layer of a silicone containing polyamideimide layer. Also, the intermediate transfer media can include a silicone containing polyamideimide single layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventor: Jin Wu
  • Patent number: 8318271
    Abstract: A heat transferable material includes a heat transferable polymeric binder and a light stabilizer that is an N-oxyl radical derived from a hindered amine, the N-oxyl radical having the following formula, wherein R1, R2, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from a straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl, and R3 and R4 are each independently selected from H, OH, OR, COOH, or COOR, wherein R is a straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl or alkene, and having a molecular weight of 600 or less, is described. The heat transferable material can be in one or more sections or patches on a thermal donor element to provide a protective overcoat material. Optionally, a patch in the donor element can also include a dye. The heat transferable material provides better image stability and improved iridescence when applied to a thermal, inkjet, electophotographic, or silver halide receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: William B. Vreeland
  • Publication number: 20120234476
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing self-adhesive transfer papers, to the transfer papers produced by means of the method, and to a transfer print method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventor: Zvonimir Martinovic
  • Patent number: 8123891
    Abstract: Method of making a heat transfer materials are generally provided, along with the materials and the methods of using the materials. A splittable layer can be formed to overlie a base sheet, and an image-receptive coating can be formed to overlie the splittable layer. The image-receptive coating can include thermoplastic microparticles, a thermoplastic binder, and a humectant. The thermoplastic microparticles can be styrene particles having an average particle size of from about 5 microns to about 80 microns and melt at temperatures between about 90° C. and about 115° C. A second thermoplastic microparticle can also be included in the image-receptive coating. Alternatively, a combination of thermoplastic polyester microparticles and thermoplastic polyamide microparticles can be included in the image-receptive coating. The heat transfer material can then be dried. The humectant is configured to draw moisture back into the heat transfer sheet after drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Neenah Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Dolsey
  • Publication number: 20110151153
    Abstract: Provided are donor articles comprising a donor substrate and a conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer comprises (a) at least one electrically conductive polymer; (b) a binder comprising a polymer selected from the group consisting of poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazoline), poly(vinylpyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate), polyvinyl acetal, poly(3-morpholinylethylene), poly(2,4-dimethyl-6-triazinylethylene), poly(N-1,2,4-triazolylethylene), poly(vinylsulfate), poly(vinylformamide), and poly[N-(p-sulfophenyl)imino-3-hydroxymethyl-1,4-phenyleneimino-1,4-phenylene] or a combination thereof; and (c) a polyanion. Also provided are methods of transferring at least a portion of an electrically conductive layer from such a donor article to a receiver, the patterned receivers and patterned donor articles made by such methods, electronic devices comprising the patterned receivers, and electronic devices comprising the patterned donor articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: THOMAS C. FELDER, Feng Gao, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Haixin Yang
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20110097506
    Abstract: Compositions, methods, apparatuses, kits, and combinations are described for applying a colorant to a surface. The compositions useful in the present disclosure include a composition that is formulated to be applied and affixed to a surface. If desired, the composition may be substantially removed from the surface to remove a portion or substantially all of the stain before being affixed to the surface. If a user desires to remove the composition from the surface, the composition is formulated to be removed by a number of methods including, for example, vacuuming, wet extraction, chemical application, and the like. If the user desires to affix the composition to the surface in a permanent or semi-permanent manner, the composition may be affixed to the surface by applying energy thereto in the form of, for example, heat, pressure, emitted waves, an emitted electrical field, a magnetic field, and/or a chemical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Ketan N. SHAH, James F. Kimball, Marcia L. Santaga, Eric J. Minor, Benjamin A. Bass, Benjamin N. Shiffler
  • Patent number: 7906267
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, containing; a support; at least one receptor layer containing at least two kinds of latex polymers, said latex polymers having different elastic moduli from each other; and at least one heat-insulation layer containing hollow latex polymer particles and a water-soluble polymer, said at least one heat-insulation layer being provided between the support and the at least one receptor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Shinohara, Toshihide Yoshitani
  • Patent number: 7887904
    Abstract: A glass or ceramic dishware item having a contoured surface with an image disposed thereon is provided. The image is transferred to the contoured surface from a layered ink composite. The layered ink composite is created by depositing a first layer of thermoplastic ink onto a silicone substrate. A ceramic toner configured as an image is electrographically deposited onto the first layer of thermoplastic ink. A second layer of thermoplastic ink is then deposited onto the ceramic toner. The image is transferred, at ambient temperature, from the layered ink composite to the contoured surface of the dishware item by moving the second layer of thermoplastic ink and the contoured surface into contact. The dishware item is then fired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: WKI Holding Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John Donohoe, Richard J. Lugen, Kenneth A. Kirk
  • Patent number: 7887667
    Abstract: A heat transfer paper configured to reduce the amount of stray toner on a heat transfer material, especially when the image is formed via a laser printer or laser copier, is generally disclosed. The heat transfer material includes an image-receptive coating overlying a splittable layer and a base sheet. The image-receptive coating includes thermoplastic polyolefin wax microparticles, a thermoplastic binder, and a humectant. The thermoplastic polyolefin wax microparticles have an average particle size of from about 30 microns to about 50 microns and melt at temperatures between about 130° C. and about 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Neenah Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Dolsey
  • Publication number: 20110007123
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet having a dye layer containing a thermo-transferable dye in a binder resin, wherein the dye layer contains at least one polymer containing a repetitive unit derived from (a) a monomer of the following formula (1) and (b) a monomer having an aliphatic group that has a bridging linkage and has at least 7 carbon atoms: wherein Rf represents substituent containing a fluoroalkyl or perfluoroalkyl group having at least 8 fluorine atoms, n indicates 1 or 2, and R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Hisato Nagase, Junichiro Hosokawa, Hideyuki Shirai
  • Patent number: 7824748
    Abstract: The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventors: Jodi A. Dalvey, Nabill F. Nasser
  • Publication number: 20100247819
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet having a dye layer that contains a thermotransferable dye and a binder on a substrate film, wherein the dye layer contains a dye of the following formula (1), and at least 50% by mass of the binder in the dye layer is a carboxylic acid-modified polyvinyl acetal resin: wherein A represents a phenylene group; R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group; R3 represents an amino group, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group; R4 represents an alkyl group, or an aryl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi TERAMAE, Naotsugu MURO
  • Publication number: 20100239793
    Abstract: The invention is related to thermal imageable dielectric layers and thermal transfer donors and receivers comprising dielectric layers. The thermal transfer donors are useful in making electronic devices by thermal transfer of dielectric layers having excellent resistivity, good transfer properties and good adhesion to a variety of receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Gerald Donald Andrews, Richard Kevin Bailey, Graciela Beatriz Blanchet, Jonathan V. Caspar, John Catron, Reid John Chesterfield, Feng Gao, Marc B. Goldfinger, Gary Delmar Jaycox, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Irina Malajovich, William J. Marshall, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Charles Nehemiah McEwan, Jeffrey Scott Meth, Geoffrey Nunes, Gerard O'Neil, Paul J. Shannon, Kenneth George Sharp, Karyn B. Visscher
  • Publication number: 20090252903
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer sheet having a substrate and a thermal transfer layer containing a thermal-transferable dye, a binder, and a release agent on one surface of the substrate, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer formed on the other surface of the substrate, in which the dye has at least one kind of a specific dye; the binder comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyamide-series resin, a polyester-series resin, an epoxy-series resin, a polyurethane-series resin, a polyacrylic resin, a vinyl-series resin, a petroleum-series resin, a rosin derivative, a coumarone-indene resin, a terpene-series resin, a polyolefin-series resin, a polyvinyl butyral-series resin, and a polyvinyl acetoacetal-series resin; and the release agent is at least one kind of a polymer-type release agent having a molecular weight of from 5,000 to 100,000 and having a fluorine atom-substituted aliphatic group on its side chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Teramae, Hideyuki Shirai, Hisato Nagase
  • Publication number: 20090149326
    Abstract: Provided are compositions derived from a polycarboxylic acid, a polyhydroxy compound, a dye and a vanadium catalyst. The compositions can be used to prepare films that 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 Ionkin
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7442437
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive composition comprising a copolymer (a) of a methylmethacrylate (MMA) and/or a butylmethacrylate (BMA) and a styrene (St), also provides an adhesive composition comprising a mixture of an acrylic polymer (b) and a ketone resin, wherein the acrylic polymer (b) is at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of a poly MMA, a poly BMA, a MMA/BMA copolymer or a MMA/BMA/St copolymer, and also provides a thermal transfer sheet having a layer comprising the adhesive composition. The adhesive composition has excellent heat sealing characteristics and resistance to blocking when it is used for the formation of an adhesive layer, is also superior in miscibility with various organic or inorganic additives and allows these additives to exhibit their functions sufficiently when these additives are added and has high transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Usuki, Naohiro Obonai
  • Patent number: 7361437
    Abstract: The invention provides a thermal transfer donor element comprising a support layer and a transfer layer supported by the support layer and comprising a binder containing carboxylic acid groups. The transfer layer includes an organic compound containing a plurality of hydroxyl groups with a hydroxyl group concentration of less than 18 mM/g and at least one connecting group, wherein the organic compound is free of any N,N-bis-(2-hydroxyethyl)amide and any rosin ester. In another embodiment, a method of using the donor element is provided, particularly in the manufacture of a color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Weed, Casey K. Chandrasekaran, Thomas Kevin Foreman
  • 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: 7056551
    Abstract: Disclosed is a protective transparent overcoat comprising a protective polymer and a surfactant compound having multiple non-end-group hydrogen bonding groups directly or indirectly bonded to the backbone chain of the surfactant compound. The coating enables simplified manufacturing of a thermal sublimation dye transfer donor of high quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Rukmini B. Lobo, David C. Boris, Scott A. Strong, Anita M. Fees
  • Patent number: 7026024
    Abstract: A heat transfer recording sheet comprising a support layer; an adhesive layer; and at least one ink receiving layer comprising a microporous polymeric film including at least one thermoplastic polymer. The thermoplastic polymer may be blended with a hydrophilic melt additive prior to extrusion and stretching or an already extruded and stretched microporous polymeric film may be coated with an additional layer of inorganic pigment and binder. The recording sheet containing a printed image is transferred onto target substrates such as paper and textiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Chialu Chang, Yaoliang Hong, Thomas Z. Fu
  • Patent number: 7026092
    Abstract: A thermal transfer medium for use in mass transfer printing comprises a substrate bearing on at least part of one surface thereof a coating of an overlay material comprising polyester having a glass transition greater than 50° C. (preferably at least 75° C.) and a molecular weight in the range 6,000 to 10,000. The overlay material combines good transfer characteristics, barrier properties and durability and is highly transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
    Inventors: Julie C. Double, Andrew Clifton, Alan Butters
  • Patent number: 7014895
    Abstract: An ultraviolet post cure heat transfer label for application to an item includes a carrier web, a release coat applied to the carrier web and a composition including a cationic ultraviolet curable ink applied to the release coat. The ink has a solvent in a concentration of at a least about 20 percent by weight of the ink. The ink is dried in a non-UV process to form a storable film on the carrier web. The composition is transferred to the item and the ink is cured, by application of ultraviolet energy, following transfer to the item. A method for making the label and a method for marking an item are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Grotefend, Paul Giusto, Michael B. Colella
  • Patent number: 6998213
    Abstract: There are provided a thermal transfer film which can yield an image formed object possessing excellent fastness or resistance properties such as excellent abrasion resistance and lightfastness, has good sensitivity in transfer, and is free from blocking during storage in a roll form, a thermal transfer recording medium, and a method for image formation using them. The thermal transfer film comprises: a substrate; and one or a plurality of layers provided on one side of the substrate, the one or plurality of layers including at least a thermal transfer layer, the thermal transfer layer being located on the uppermost surface of the thermal transfer film, the thermal transfer layer comprising at least two polyester resins different from each other in number average molecular weigh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Aso, Yoshihiko Tamura
  • Patent number: 6884311
    Abstract: The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Inventors: Jodi A. Dalvey, Nabill F. Nasser
  • Patent number: 6855474
    Abstract: A donor element for proofing having at least a transfer material disposed on a substrate for the preparation of a digital halftone proof having consistent dot density characteristics over time. The donor element includes a transfer material having a donor binder, a cationic infrared absorbing dye, a thermally activated crosslinking agent and a dispersible material The donor element can also include a distinct, intermediate transfer layer disposed between the substrate and the transfer material. The donor element can be used in conjunction with a receptor element to provide a thermal imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Kodak Polychrome Graphics LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Kidnie, M. Zaki Ali, Pao C. Vang
  • Patent number: 6793989
    Abstract: A heat-transfer label is particularly well-suited for use on silane-treated glass containers of the type that are subjected to pasteurization conditions, regardless of whether the glass containers have been pre-treated previously with polyethylene, oleic acid, stearate or the like. The heat transfer label comprises (a) a support portion consisting of a sheet of paper or film overcoated with a layer of releasable material such as polyethylene and (b) a transfer portion over the support portion for transfer of the transfer portion from the support portion to an article, upon application of heat to the support portion, and placing the transfer portion in contact with the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Gotham Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Mukund R. Patel, Robert E. Lafler
  • Patent number: 6790493
    Abstract: An aqueous coating formulation which forms a thermal transfer layer of a thermal transfer ribbon. This formulation comprises an aqueous emulsion of a thermoplastic resin and/or wax coemulsified with an epoxy curing agent. This emulsion can be combined with an aqueous dispersion of an epoxy resin. These coating formulations provide thermal transfer layers with reactive components that increase in molecular weight when heated during transfer to provide images with high scratch and smear resistance without organic solvents. The reactive components are maintained in separate phases within the same thermal transfer layer or separate thermal transfer layers until exposed to a thermal print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: David M. Dashiell
  • Patent number: 6716494
    Abstract: A transfer sheet comprises a support, and a transfer layer separable from the support and receivable an ink, wherein the transfer layer contains a hot-melt adhesive particle. The hot-melt adhesive particle in the transfer sheet comprises a particle having a melting point of more than 80° C. (A) and a particle having a melting point of not more than 80° C. (B), and the particle (A) comprises a hot-melt adhesive particle having an oil absorption of not less than 50 ml/100 g (A1) and a hot-melt adhesive particle having an oil absorption of less than 50 ml/100 g (A2). Further, the transfer layer may comprise a film-formable resin component and a dye fixing agent. The transfer sheet is excellent in stability on delivery of a sheet, so prevents the inside of the printer from staining, and excels in ink-absorption to a degree that the stain transfer does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nakanishi, Noboru Yamada, Junichi Iida
  • Patent number: 6709542
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording medium including a substrate, and a thermal transfer recording layer formed on the substrate and mainly containing a coloring pigment, an amorphous organic high polymer and colorless or light-colored fine particles, the thickness of the thermal transfer recording layer being in the range of 0.2·m to 1.0·m, wherein the mixing ratios of the coloring pigment, the amorphous organic high polymer and the fine particles are confined to 20-60 parts by weight, 40-70 parts by weight and 1-30 parts by weight, respectively. An image-forming method using the thermal transfer recording medium, and an image-bearing body formed from the thermal transfer recording medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Naito, Yoshiaki Shiina, Kazumichi Shibuya
  • Patent number: RE41623
    Abstract: The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventors: Jodi A. Schwendimann, Nabil F. Nasser