Plural Image Layers Patents (Class 430/15)
  • Patent number: 5766808
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for forming multilayered polyimide structure from negative photosensitive polyimide precursors. An initial polyimide layer is deposited and imagewise exposed. The unexposed portions of the initial polyimide layer are inhibited and then a second polyimide layer is deposited and likewise imagewise exposed. The films are developed, thereby forming a multilayer polyimide structure. After formation of the multilayer polyimide structure, a conductive material is applied on a substrate and then the polyimide layers are lifted off thereby forming a desired pattern of metallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harold George Linde, Rosemary Ann Previti-Kelly, Thomas Joseph Reen
  • Patent number: 5763122
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Imation Corp.
    Inventor: Bruce W. Weeks
  • Patent number: 5750292
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a photosensitive resin composition comprising the compound of formula (1): ##STR1## The compound of formula (1) normally has a low ultraviolet absorption, but has a high ultraviolet absorption when heat-treated. The present invention also provides a photosensitive resin layer composition which has a low ultraviolet absorption in an appropriate wavelength range such that ultraviolet rays reach sufficiently deep into the film to effect curing when exposed to light, but which has a high ultraviolet absorption when subsequently processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morimasa Sato, Takekatsu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 5731112
    Abstract: This invention relates to a mixture of imageable polyacetylenic compounds which have similar photosensitivities and which are visually imageable in complementary colors combinable to provide a black image, which mixture contains at least one polyacetylenic metal salt which produces a color, preferably a metal salt of a diacetylene C.sub.6 to C.sub.48 mono- or dicarboxylic acid, which is complementary to a color produced by another polyacetylenic metal salt or non-metallic polyacetylenic compound contained in the mixture or in an another integral color forming layer. The invention also pertains to the use of said mixture and the manner of its preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Lewis, Sangya S. Varma
  • Patent number: 5700607
    Abstract: In a process for fabricating a multilayer printed circuit board with permanent innerlayers of photoresist, the photoimageable composition used to form the hard permanent layer comprises a polymerizable acrylate monomer; an oligomer formed by the reaction of an epoxy resin and an acrylic or methacrylic acid; a photosensitive, free radical generating initiator for polymerization of the acrylic monomer and oligomer; a curable epoxy resin; a curing agent for the epoxy resin; and, optionally, a crosslinking agent reactive with hydroxyl groups. After exposure and development of a layer of the photoimageable composition and etching of the underlying metal layer on a board, the resultant photoresist is left on the circuitry traces. The innerlayers of photoresist are stacked in a press where it initially conforms under heat and pressure to fill voids between the innerlayers and then cures to permanence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Morton International, Inc.
    Inventors: James Rath, William Luong-Gia Tran, Kathy M. Flynn, Vinai Ming Tara, Thomas A. Koes, Vincent J. Nizzo
  • Patent number: 5686071
    Abstract: The use of interacting polymers and oligomers to selectively target compounds to desired sites, in-vitro and in-vivo, wherein the first polymer or oligomer is bound to a targeting agent and the second polymer or oligomer is bound to an active agent, such as a drug, a metal or a radioisotope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Per Immune Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramaswamy Subramanian, Fang Shi
  • Patent number: 5616439
    Abstract: The invention relates to an imaged element comprising(1) a carrier element having a release surface wherein the carrier element is resistant to aqueous development; (2) a first adhesive layer; (3) a first colored pattern, resulting from the imagewise exposure and washout development of a first unpigmented, photosensitive layer comprising an aqueous liquid developable photosensitive composition and at least one overlying acqueous permeable colorant-containing composition; (4) and a transfer element having a release surface. There is an adhesion force F1, F2 and F3 between the various layers wherein each of F2 and F3 is greater than F1 and F2 is greater than F3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Gregory A. Bodager, Phillip L. Beighle
  • Patent number: 5534373
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Stephan J. W. Platzer, Andrea Buchmann, Gerhard Buhr
  • Patent number: 5496668
    Abstract: In the formation of microstructures, a preformed sheet of photoresist, such as polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), which is strain free, may be milled down before or after adherence to a substrate to a desired thickness. The photoresist is patterned by exposure through a mask to radiation, such as X-rays, and developed using a developer to remove the photoresist material which has been rendered susceptible to the developer. Micrometal structures may be formed by electroplating metal into the areas from which the photoresist has been removed. The photoresist itself may form useful microstructures, and can be removed from the substrate by utilizing a release layer between the substrate and the preformed sheet which can be removed by a remover which does not affect the photoresist. Multiple layers of patterned photoresist can be built up to allow complex three dimensional microstructures to be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Henry Guckel, Todd R. Christenson, Kenneth Skrobis
  • Patent number: 5476749
    Abstract: A liquid photosensitive composition comprising(1) 40 to 80% by weight of a urethane (meth)acrylate having a functionality of 2 to 4 and a molecular weight (Mw) of 500 to 10,000,(2) 5 to 40% by weight of a hydroxyl group containing aliphatic or cycloaliphatic di(meth)acrylate,(3) 0 to 40% by weight of a mono(meth)acrylate or of a mono-N-vinyl compound having a Mw of not more than 500,(4) 0.1 to 10% by weight of a photoinitiator,(5) 0 to 30% by weight of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic di(meth)acrylate which differs from (2), of an aliphatic tri(meth)acrylate or of an aromatic di- or tri(meth)acrylate, and(6) 0 to 5% by weight of customary additives, such that the proportion of components (1) to (6) together is 100% by weight.The composition is a photosensitive composition which can be polymerised by irradiation with actinic light and which is suitable for the production preferably of three-dimensional objects by the stereolithographic technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Bettina Steinmann, Rolf Wiesendanger, Adrian Schulthess, Max Hunziker
  • Patent number: 5474844
    Abstract: A polyester film for an image-forming transfer material, wherein a difference .DELTA..alpha..sub.t between the maximum coefficient of thermal expansion and the minimum coefficient of thermal expansion in the film plane is not larger than 1.0.times.10.sup.-5 /.degree.C., and the maximum coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.tmax is not larger than 2.5.times.10.sup.-5 /.degree.C., which can form a high quality color image having less deviation and a high image density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignees: Diafoil Hoechst Company, Limited, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Sato, Tetsuya Masuda
  • Patent number: 5407764
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate for use on a printing press, with minimal or no additional processing after photoexposure, comprises a printing plate substrate; a photosensitive hydrophilic layer having a polymeric hydrophilic binder and a photopolymerizable, photocrosslinkable or photorearrangeable compound capable of promoting insolubilization or hardening in areas of photoexposure; and a photosensitive hydrophobic layer having a polymeric hydrophobic binder and a photopolymerizable, photocrosslinkable or photorearrangeable compound capable of promoting insolubilization or hardening in areas of photoexposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Zafarullah K. Cheema, Anthony C. Giudice, Eugene L. Langlais, Clarence F. St. Jacques
  • Patent number: 5407781
    Abstract: A photosensitive element comprising (a) a support, (b) a thermally hardened layer containing the reaction product of (i) either an organic polymer having reactive segments and nonreactive segments or a blend of organic polymers wherein at least one polymer has reactive segments and at least one polymer has nonreactive segments (ii) a crosslinking agent and (iii) a catalyst and (c) a photohardenable layer is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Bernard Feinberg, Richard P. Pankratz
  • Patent number: 5391442
    Abstract: The present invention provides the color pattern forming method wherein the process is simple and therefore the product can be manufactured at a low cost and it is possible to obtain an RGB color filter with superior pattern precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsushima, Iwao Sumiyoshi, Masaaki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 5379150
    Abstract: A spatial frequency filter used in a pattern defect detection device, including a pattern which includes a black spot having a diameter expanded by a controlled amount in comparison with the diameter of a black spot on a photosensitive plate obtained by exposure by diffracted light from a pattern on a model specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoko Miyazaki, Toshimasa Tomoda, Hitoshi Tanaka, Nobuyuki Kosaka, Toyomi Ohshige
  • Patent number: 5356698
    Abstract: Adhesive agent for substrate of electroless plating characterized in comprising epoxy resin, synthetic rubber, and phenolic resin as main components, a hardener of the epoxy resin, inorganic filler having hydroxyl group, and solvent.The adhesive agent is hardened at relatively low temperature (about 150.degree. C.) in short period (within 30 minutes) without giving warp and distortion to the insulation substrate, and moreover its insulation resistance after hardening is high.The adhesive agent is preferable as an adhesive agent for a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineo Kawamoto, Haruo Akahoshi, Akio Takahashi, Akio Mukoh, Kazuo Tanje, Toyofusa Yoshimura, Tokihito Suwa, Iwao Kaminaga, Toshiyuki Chida
  • Patent number: 5279912
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image is produced using an imaging medium having a lenticular screen, the lenticles of the screen dividing the opposed surface of the imaging medium into a plurality of elongate image areas, the imaging medium having on the opposed side thereof a radiation-sensitive layer, the radiation-sensitive layer comprising a color-forming composition adapted to undergo a change of color upon increase in the temperature of the radiation-sensitive layer above a color-forming temperature for a color-forming time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Michael J. Zuraw
  • Patent number: 5266427
    Abstract: A display board has a substrate, a transparent photopolymerization resin layer formed on the substrate, and a picture layer formed in a surface of the transparent photopolymerization resin layer. The picture layer is composed of at least one dots-shaped colored photopolymerization resin. This display board is produced by exposing a colored photopolymerization resin film supported by a support member through a negative having a predetermined picture pattern to form a dots-shaped colored photopolymerization resin layer on the support member, transferring the dots-shaped colored photopolymerization resin layer to a surface of a transparent photopolymerization resin layer formed on a substrate to form a picture layer in the surface of the transparent photopolymerization resin layer, and setting the transparent photopolymerization resin layer in which the picture layer is formed to fix the picture layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Iwase, Takeshi Imai, Toshio Koura
  • Patent number: 5266426
    Abstract: A photocured resin relief plate comprising a relief layer comprising base layer A and top layer B formed by photocuring and arranged in this order, in which the thickness of the relief layer at a highlight portion constituting a pattern having a dot percent of 7% or less is smaller than the thickness of the relief layer at a portion other than the highlight portion. The photocured resin relief plate can be obtained by imagewise light exposure of a multilayer photosensitive resin layer comprising a lower layer of a liquid photosensitive resin layer having minimum insolubilization light exposure value Q.sub.A and an upper layer of a liquid photosensitive resin layer having minimum insolubilization light exposure value Q.sub.B, wherein Q.sub.B is not smaller than 23 millijoules/cm.sup.2 and not smaller than 5 times Q.sub.A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Kousi Anai
  • Patent number: 5217832
    Abstract: Color transparencies having more than one imaged dichroic filter, and an imaged neutral density filter, layered on one side of a single glass substrate, and processes for making the same, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the color transparency is produced by a deposition process including the steps of coating a glass substrate with a photoresist and developing an image thereupon, depositing alternating layers of high and low refractive index dielectrics to form a dichroic layer of a primary subtractive color, stripping the photoresist from the glass, preparing at least one additional imaged dichroic filter on the first, and preparing a neutral density filter on the substrate on the side having the layered dichroic filters. A red antihalation coating may be applied to the lower surface of the glass substrate prior to exposing the photoresist to prevent undesirable exposure of additional portions of the photoresist layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: The Walt Disney Company
    Inventors: Robert W. Joslin, Kathleen L. Nelson
  • Patent number: 5192630
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for protecting an image which comprises providing a multilayered colored image on a permanent receiver which may be any of a wide range of materials. A photosensitive element on a substrate is laminated to a temporary element and exposed with substrate removal before development. After development, the steps are repeated with another color. A protective element is laminated to the colored image. After removal of the support of the temporary element, the colored image with protective element is laminated to a permanent receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventor: Stephan J. W. Platzer
  • Patent number: 5178975
    Abstract: A technique for making a high resolution X-ray mask with high aspect ratio absorber patterns sufficient for use in X-ray lithography wherein a thin resist layer is used to provide a low contrast mask, and then an X-ray exposure is used to increase the aspect ratio of the absorber to increase the contrast of the mask. The mask is first patterned with an e-beam resist exposure and development step, and the plating of the base material is activated by a reactive ion etch followed by electroplating. The resist is removed and the mask is coated with a negative acting X-ray resist. The back of the mask is exposed to X-rays wherein the existing absorber acts as an X-ray mask to expose the desired areas of the resist. The resist is removed after development, reactive ion etching and electroplating resulting in a mask with high contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kaolin Ng Chiong, David E. Seeger
  • Patent number: 5176973
    Abstract: An at least two-color low optical dot gain surlay pre-press color proof comprising a base having laminated thereto in the following order, a first adhesive layer, a first single-color image, and then at least one additional pair of thin adhesive layers and comprising a synthetic polymeric binder composition with a Tg of less than 105.degree. and a thickness of 8-30 microns which thickness is at least twice that of any one of said additional thin adhesive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Charles J. Gifford, Jack E. Cook, Bruce W. Weeks, Julien M. Wajs
  • Patent number: 5176971
    Abstract: A technique related to color filters to be arranged on the light-receiving surface of a color liquid crystal display device, color video camera, and the like. The color filter consists of a substrate (10) and a colored filter layer (12) formed thereon. The colored filter layer (12) comprises, for example, three groups of filter picture elements (14R), 14G, 14B) having spectral characteristics respectively corresponding to red, green and blue. Each group of filter picture elements are made of polyimide resin and dye contained therein. Further, each group of the filter picture elements (R, G, B) are arranged in direct contact with one surface of the substrate (10) without using any intermediate protecting film. The first group of filter picture elements patterned on one surface of the substrate (10) are subjected to heat treatment at a high temperature of about 250.degree. C., for example, to increase their resistance against the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Shimamura, Tadahiro Furukawa, Akiyoshi Murakami, Toshio Haga
  • Patent number: 5162179
    Abstract: This invention involves a structure containing a layered imaged configuration with an overcoating layer. The overcoating layer, in addition to encapsulating the toned image, substantially strengthens the dielectric layer after it is removed from the system. Also, a process for producing a product having an image depth perception and the product itself are disclosed. The layered structure may have one or two dielectric layers having a combined thickness of from about 0.2 to about 10.0 mils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter J. Lewicki, Jr., John H. Bowers
  • Patent number: 5087537
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for characterizing lithography imaging to quickly optimize a lithography process is described. The apparatus consists of two lithography masks for use with an optical stepper, ion-beam or x-ray lithography tool. The first mask is used for creating topography on the wafer substrate, and is patterned with groups of large elements arranged in orthogonal and angular directions. The second mask is used for defining a periodic pattern over the large elements. Preferably, the periodic pattern is in the same order of dimension as the critical element on the integrated circuit. A method is provided for characterizing lithography tools which do not have lithography masks such as an electron beam exposure tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Conway, Edward C. Fredericks, Giorgio G. Via
  • Patent number: 5075196
    Abstract: A halftone dot image pattern is formed on a support comprising a paper base, a polyolefin layer on at least one side of said paper base in a coverage in the range of 5 to 40 g/m2, on the opposite side of the polyolefin layer a binder layer comprising a hydrophilic colloid binding agent and white titanium dioxide pigment particles having an average grain size in the range of 200 nm to 450 nm, said pigment particles being present in a coverage of at least 0.5 g per m2 up to 300% by wt of the total binder contents. The half tone dot image pattern is on the exterior side of the binder layer and is a halftone relief image pattern having at least color pigmented gelatin-containing layer, preferably three or four such layers of different colors; e.g., cyan, magenta, yellow and optionally black. The resultant halftone material has a controlled visual appearance; e.g., for color proofing purposes, especially with respect to dot gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Eddie R. Daems, Luc H. Leenders
  • Patent number: 5059500
    Abstract: A filter is formed on a substrate, such as a solid state imager, by providing successively on the substrate a layer of an absorber material, a layer of a barrier material, and a layer of a photoresist material. The photoresist is patternwise exposed and developed, thereby baring regions of the barrier layer underlying selected regions of the photoresist layer. The coated substrate is reactive ion etched under a first set of etching conditions to etch away the bared regions of the barrier layer and to bare but not substantially etch the underlying regions of the absorber layer, and then reactive ion etched under a second set of etching conditions, thereby etching away the remaining regions of the photoresist layer and the bared regions of the absorber layer, so forming a filter on the substrate. To form multi-colored filters, the process may be repeated with a different dye, or additional dyes may be deposited by other processes, such as that described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,808,501.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R. Needham, Carl A. Chiulli, Stephen F. Clark
  • Patent number: 5053300
    Abstract: A display such as meter panel and advertising display comprises a color image forming layer provided on a light-transmitting permanent support via a photo-polymerizable adhesive layer, and a photo-polymerizable image-receiving layer closely adhered to the color image forming layer. The display can be effectively produced by a process comprising the steps of forming a color image on a photo-polymerizable image-receiving layer of a photosensitive image-receiving material, placing it upon a photo-polymerizable adhesive layer formed on a light-transmitting permanent support to form a laminate so that the photo-polymerizable image-receiving layer and the photo-polymerizable adhesive layer face each other and then exposing the laminate to light so as to closely adhere the photo-polymerizable image-receiving layer and the photo-polymerizable adhesive layer to their adjacent layers, respectively, by the photo-polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignees: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Imai, Teruhiko Iwase, Toshio Koura, Minoru Maeda, Junichi Fujimori, Fumiaki Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 5019471
    Abstract: Multicolor image products useful for prepress color proofing. The products are laminates of a transfer support sheet; an adhesive layer of a heat-fusible and bondable material on a surface of said transfer support sheet; an image layer of a first color provided on the adhesive layer and having image areas of a water-insoluble resin component and non-image areas, the image areas being bonded to the surface of the adhesive layer; and one, two or three additional image layers each of a different color other than that of the first image layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mino, Takeshi Iijima, Kuniaki Monden
  • Patent number: 5013621
    Abstract: A one-part coating composition for the backside of photographic prints and photographic prints so coated are described. The white coating is reflective, flexible, and water resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: John F. Kistner
  • Patent number: 5011754
    Abstract: A novel decorating pigment-transfer sheet 1 utilizing at least one photosensitive resin layer 3 and at least one pigment layer deposited thereon is provided for decorating heat-resistant articles 7 such as ceramics. The transfer sheet 1 comprises a water-absorbing substrate sheet 2; a water soluble paste layer 5 placed thereon; at least one and normally three photosensitive resin layers 3 placed thereon, each resin layer 3 having adhesive dot photo-images 3c produced by irradiating the resin layer 3 through a photographic dotted film 6; and at least one and normally three glaze-containing pigment layers (a, b, c) deposited on the adhesive dot images 3c of each resin layer 3. The three pigment layers (a,b,c) normally comprise each pigment of three primary colors, respectively. The heat-resistant article 7 is decorated by soaking the transfer sheet 1 in water, removing the substrate sheet 2, transferring the resin/pigment layers onto the article surface, followed by firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: INAX Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Ono
  • Patent number: 5004660
    Abstract: The master disc contains a substrate plate which is preferably provided with an optically detectable guide track and a recording layer of polysulphone such as poly(1-butene sulphone) to which, preferably, a colorant is added and in which an optically readable information track is provided by patterned exposure, a pit or groove being formed in the polysulphone layer. A matrix is formed by applying a metal layer to the polysulphone layer by means of an electroless deposition process and then, applying a further metal layer by means of an electrodeposition process or applying a curable synthetic resin layer together with a metal disc, after which the synthetic resin is made to cure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Maarten A. Van Andel, Johannes P. J. G. Van Liempd, Josephus M. Wijn
  • Patent number: 4995185
    Abstract: This invention relates to a picture plate to be used indoor or outdoor for advertisment, display and decoration purposes. The picutre plate comprises of a semitransparent white plate (1) fitted in between the two identical pictures (2) which are matched completely. The picture (2) is affixed to one surface of the semitransparent white plate (1) either by itself, or with a transparent plastic plate (3). A composite picture plate thus formed is capable of exhibiting a clear picture either with the aid of transpiercing light (T) or reflection light (R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Inventor: Chiang-Ming Cheng
  • Patent number: 4960660
    Abstract: Process for preparation of high resolution image exposing imagewise a photopolymerizable element having a removable cover sheet and a conductive support or a temporary support which is replaced by a conductive support, stripping the cover sheet and laminating the imagewise exposed photopolymerizable layer to a second exposed photopolymerizable layer on a temporary support, removing the temporary support, charging electrostatically the exposed photopolymerizable layers, developing, e.g., liquid electrostatic developer or dry toner developer, and optionally transferring the developed image to a receptor surface, e.g., paper. The process is useful in preparing multiple copies in more than one version, e.g., logos, headlines, corrections, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Alan S. Dubin, Catharine E. Looney, Steven P. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4956215
    Abstract: This optical recording card includes optical recording medium which is formed with optical information patterns each of which has an optical reflective layer and information stored in the optical recording card can be read out in dependency on the difference in optical reflectivity of the optical information pattern. It is not economical that the optical reflective layer of the optical recording card is formed on a base sheet by etching or the like, wherein the base sheet is prepared in the form of a sheet. The optical recording card is produced by way of the steps of forming an optical reflective layer on a continuous base film having large area and then die cutting the assembly of optical reflective layer and base film into a large number of optical recording cards having required dimensions in such a state that the optical recording medium is held between a card base and a protective sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Fujita, Yoichi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 4948707
    Abstract: A non-conductive substrate is conditioned for subsequent selective deposition of a metal thereon by providing at least one of the major surfaces of the substrate in roughened form, contacting that surface(s) with a palladium/tin catalyst, activating the catalyst by employing an alkali hydroxide solution, laminating a photosensitive composition to the major surface(s), and exposing the photosensitive composition to actinic light in a predetermined pattern and then developing to provide the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert W. Johnson, William H. Lawrence, Gary K. Lemon, Roy H. Magnuson, Voya R. Markovich, Ralph E. Parsons, Carlos J. Sambucetti
  • Patent number: 4927723
    Abstract: A relief flexographic printing plate is prepared by image-wise exposure of the "printing face" of a layer of photocurable polymer through a negative 7 and image-wise back exposure of the layer 4 through a support sheet 3 and a positive 6 of the image to be printed, thereby selectively curing the floor regions 9 of the printing plate in register with the uncured areas 8 left in the printing face of said layer.Preferably a further non-selective back exposure operation is carried out for additionally curing the floor regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: W. R. Grace Limited
    Inventor: George B. Cusdin
  • Patent number: 4863819
    Abstract: A data card comprising a self-supporting, wallet size plastic card base upon which is disposed a film substrate layer, a highly reflective layer and an optical storage layer which is a selected photosensitive layer which has been exposed at an actinic wavelength and developed to be substantially opaque over a portion of its extent, except for an imagewise exposure pattern of clear and partially clear data marks revealing to varying extends reflectivity in the underlying reflective layer. Data spots may have one of four different reflectivities thereby representing a quadrinary digit 0, 1, 2 or 3 replacing two binary digits. The reflective layer is matched to the selected optical storage layer so that the reflective layer is highly reflective at a read beam wavelength in the red or near infrared and less reflective at actinic wavelengths either in the blue/green range or in the ultraviolet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Drexler Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Drexler, Eric W. Bouldin
  • Patent number: 4845000
    Abstract: A radiation-sensitive carrier body directly utilized as a stamper has a glass substrate, a first highly adhesive layer securely adhered to the substrate, a radiation-sensitive layer which discharges a gas component upon being irradiated with a laser beam and which locally forms a protuberance due to the absorbed energy, a second highly adhesive layer securely adhered to the specific material of the radiation-sensitive layer and which deforms in accordance with deformation of the layer, and a metal layer which has a high releasability to allow easy separation from a optical disk substrate material such as an acrylic material when the carrier body is used as a stamper substrate for manufacturing optical disks. A protuberance formed on the carrier body such as a continuous spiral protuberance allows formation of a corresponding spiral groove in the acrylic material, serving as a pre-track into which desired information will be digitally written by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Takeoka, Nobuaki Yasuda, Akio Hori, Norio Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4816362
    Abstract: An optical recording material comprising (I) a substrate, (II) a recording layer provided on said substrate, the recording layer consisting of light transmissive portions and light screening portions, and (III) a reflective metallic thin film layer provided on the recording layer; as well as a process therefor. The invention also includes an optical card comprising the optical recording material provided on a card substrate. In the cases of the optical recording material and the optical card, it is possible to readily carry out high density recording, the alternation of written information is difficult, and the written information can be read out on a basis of the difference in light reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takeda, Wataru Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 4808509
    Abstract: Method of making a personal identification document exhibiting textual data and a portrait of the person, characterized in that it comprises the steps of forming a monochrome photographic textual image in a monochrome photographic silver halide material, forming a color photographic portrait image in a color photographic silver halide material, producing from these images corresponding monochrome and colored diffusion transfer images in image-receiving layers on opposite sides of a common receptor sheet, said receptor sheet, which bears the resulting diffusion transfer images, constituting a said personal identification document. The invention also provides a receptor sheet for use in such method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Ludovicus H. Vervloet, Willy P. De Smedt, Leon L. Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 4737425
    Abstract: A patterned image including on a substrate, a patterned image of a first resist polymeric material and patterned image of a second and different resist material on the first resist polymeric material. The polymeric material contains reactive hydrogen functional groups and/or reactive hydrogen precursor groups. At least the surface layer of the delineated and uncovered first resist polymer material is reacted with a multifunctional organometallic material containing at least two functional groups that are reactive with the functional groups of the polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Burn J. Lin, Bea-Jane L. Yang, Jer-Mind Yang
  • Patent number: 4692394
    Abstract: Personal information is recorded on an information medium containing both visual images, such as a face image or fingerprint, and laser recorded data. The visual images are created on a piece of photographic material or eye readable laser recording material. The visual image material is adhered to a surface of a wallet-size card. A strip of laser recordable optical data storage material is also adhered to the card. After the strip is put on the card, a laser records personal information indicia on the strip in situ. The strip may be a reflective material of silver particles in a gelatin matrix, in which recording produces spots having a detectable difference in reflectivity. The card may be coated with a transparent protective laminate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Drexler Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome Drexler
  • Patent number: 4673626
    Abstract: An optical recording material comprising (I) a substrate, (II) a recording layer provided on said substrate, the recording layer consisting of light transmissive portions and light screening portions, and (III) a reflective metallic thin film layer provided on the recording layer; as well as a process therefor. The invention also includes an optical card comprising the optical recording material provided on a card substrate. In the cases of the optical recording material and the optical card, it is possible to readily carry out high density recording, the alternation of written information is difficult, and the written information can be read out on a basis of the difference in light reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takeda, Wataru Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 4665004
    Abstract: A laser beam records a digital representation of a medical picture and medical information on an optical data storage strip. The strip is adhered to a medium containing an eye readable picture generated from the same data, such as X-ray pictures, CAT-scan pictures, ultrasonic or NMR images. The medical information may be the image itself, a description or diagnosis related to the picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: Drexler Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome Drexler
  • Patent number: 4650734
    Abstract: A photographic method for making a color filter element, and the resulting color filter element is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michel F. Molaire, Michael Scozzafava, William C. McColgin
  • Patent number: 4640878
    Abstract: There is described a photomechanical method for forming pressure sensitive transfer reproductions of color images, either single color or multicolor, upon a substrate involving the forming of a base coat protective layer on a substrate, applying one color ink layer on the base layer and a white ink overlayer on the one color ink layer. The surface of the white ink overlayer is powdered and a layer of photoresist composition is applied. The photoresist covered layered substrate is exposed to a light source through an image carrying photographic negative film to harden the photoresist at the imaged areas thereby forming a mask. Nonhardened photoresist composition areas along with their underlaying layers are removed using stepwise solvent development steps. The steps are repeated where different ink colors are to be applied to form a multicolored image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Identicolor International, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Evans, Robert Evans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4629667
    Abstract: A coating composition for the backside of photographic prints and photographic prints so coated are described. The white coating is reflective, flexible, and water resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: John F. Kistner, Donald R. Hotchkiss
  • Patent number: 4621923
    Abstract: A print assembly for viewing both by reflected and transmitted light consisting of a first image being a photographic or printed color reproduction having the appearance of an image of normal density and color for viewing by reflected light and an identical second image arranged behind and in exact register with the first but being underexposed or of lesser density in relation to the first. Where a photographic process is used the images may be formed on the front and rear of a single transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Oberview Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Bruce R. Connell