Having Plural Interactive Leaves Patents (Class 503/227)
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Patent number: 9804550Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer a second material with different solubility from that of a first material to a second position of a print medium where the second material comes into contact with the first material in a first position of the print medium, and a fixation unit configured to melt the second material transferred to the second position of the print medium, and fix the second material to the print medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Masahiko Hoshino
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Patent number: 9776446Abstract: A front face side substrate provided between a supporting member and a receiving layer of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet. The front face side substrate includes a front face side layer provided on one surface of a substrate layer and a rear face side layer provided on another surface of the substrate layer. The substrate layer includes (A) a propylene-based polymer, (B) calcium carbonate, and (C) titanium oxide, and the weight of (A) is 70% by weight to 94.5% by weight, the weight of (B) is 5% by weight to 28% by weight, and the weight of (C) is 0.5% by weight to 3% by weight, based on the assumption that the total weight of (A), (B) and (C) is 100% by weight. The front face side layer includes a modified propylene-based polymer, and the rear face side layer includes a propylene-based polymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.Inventors: Hirokazu Takahashi, Junpei Oomura, Hiroshi Matsuura, Hiroshi Honda
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Patent number: 9773434Abstract: A laminate that possesses dye sublimation properties, particularly for use as tagless labels and embellishments for garments, apparel, fabric items and so forth such as sportswear fabrics, clothing and accessories is provided. The laminate includes a dye sublimation ink layer that overlies a substrate in which the dye sublimation ink interacts with the substrate's chemical make-up.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: AVERY DENNISON RETAIL INFORMATION SERVICES, LLCInventors: Osman N. Tanrikulu, Joseph Daley
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Patent number: 9701146Abstract: An ink set contains a first ink containing a compound in which a pyrazolone ring and a thiazole ring are bonded and a second ink containing a compound in which a pyrazolone ring and a pyridinedione ring are bonded. A thermal transfer recording sheet has a first ink layer containing a compound in which a pyrazolone ring and a thiazole ring are bonded and a second ink layer containing a compound in which a pyrazolone ring and a pyridinedione ring are bonded.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koromo Shirota, Taichi Shintou, Masao Nakano
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Patent number: 9604487Abstract: A recording material for thermal printing methods comprising a carrier and a dye-absorbing layer equipped for the thermal dye transfer, wherein a barrier layer is arranged between the carrier and the dye-absorbing layer and the barrier layer contains gelatine and a polymer binder dispersible in water, the gelatine and the polymer binder dispersible in water being cross-linked with one another, suitable for the production of photo-like images having very good dye migration behavior and without mottle effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Schoeller Technocell GmbH and Co. KGInventor: Christoph Kozlowski
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Patent number: 9543548Abstract: One surface of a first substrate provided with at least light-absorbing layers separately formed, partition layers each formed between the light-absorbing layers and having an inverse taper shape, and material layers formed on the light-absorbing layers and on the partition layers so that the material layers are separated from each other is disposed to face a deposition target surface of a second substrate; light irradiation is performed from the other surface of the first substrate, only the material layers in regions overlapped with the light-absorbing layers are heated and evaporated to the deposition target surface of the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Kohei Yokoyama
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Patent number: 9527327Abstract: The purpose is to provide a protective layer transfer sheet and an intermediate transfer medium, in which a transfer layer has excellent foil tearing property during transfer and in which sufficient durability can be imparted to the thermally transferred image. The above problem is solved by a protective layer transfer sheet (100) in which a transfer layer (20) is provided on one surface of a substrate (1) so as to be peelable from the substrate (1), wherein the transfer layer (20) comprises a peeling layer (2) and a protective layer (3) which are layered in this order from the substrate; wherein the protective layer (3) includes an acrylic polyol resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of more than 80° C. or a polyester polyurethane resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of not less than 50° C.; and wherein the peeling layer includes at least one selected from a group consisting of polyester resins, acrylic urethane resins, and epoxy resins.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Oomura, Kenzo Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Oota, Kano Sakamoto, Shinya Yoda
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Patent number: 9508383Abstract: A method for creating a content in an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring first media data acquired by at least one external electronic device, acquiring second media data on a basis of at least a part of the first media data, recognizing a feature of the second media data acquired by the at least one external electronic device, and creating the content on a basis of at least a part of the feature of the second media data.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Eun Kim, Chang-Gun Um, Seung-Heon Lee, Kyung-Ho Chae, Kyung-Il Lee
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Patent number: 9478253Abstract: A method for creating a content in an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring first media data acquired by at least one external electronic device, acquiring second media data on a basis of at least a part of the first media data, recognizing a feature of the second media data acquired by the at least one external electronic device, and creating the content on a basis of at least a part of the feature of the second media data.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Eun Kim, Chang-Gun Um, Seung-Heon Lee, Kyung-Ho Chae, Kyung-Il Lee
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Patent number: 9464157Abstract: A polyurethane foam having excellent shape-following properties, which exhibits favorable comfort when worn on the human body, both during movement and at rest. The polyurethane foam contains a toluene diisocyanate and a polyether polyol as the main components, has a glass transition temperature, defined as the temperature corresponding with the peak value of the loss tangent, of not less than 0° C. and not more than 40° C., and in the temperature range from not less than 0° C. to not more than 40° C., the loss tangent in the frequency range from not less than 0.1 Hz to not more than 100 Hz is 0.4 or greater, and the average value of the loss tangent in the frequency range from not less than 0.1 Hz to not more than 1 Hz is not greater than the average value of the loss tangent in the frequency range from not less than 10 Hz to not more than 100 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: SMP Technologies Inc.Inventor: Shunichi Hayashi
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Patent number: 9446619Abstract: The invention relates to a special layer construction and a special film of plastic for the production of such a layer construction which is suitable for printing by means of dye diffusion thermal transfer printing, a process for the production thereof and a security and/or valuable document comprising such a layer construction.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AGInventors: Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Georgios Tziovaras, Mehmet-Cengiz Yesildag, Chung Leung Wong
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Patent number: 9440473Abstract: This invention relates to a conductive thermal image receiver element that has an aqueous-based coatable dye-receiving layer comprising a water-dispersible acrylic polymer, a water-dispersible polyester, a water-dispersible conductive polymeric material and a surfactant. This invention also relates to a method for making this thermal image receiver element as well as method for using it to provide a dye image by thermal transfer from a donor element.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Teh-Ming Kung, Kathleen Bonsignore, Renee L. Daniels, Lianne Heath, John P. Olscamp, Kim Standish, Ellen L. Bennett, Peter J. Ghyzel, Joseph F. Janinek, John L. Muehlbauer, Walter E. Scott
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Patent number: 9434198Abstract: 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 has the following formula (A) or formula (B): wherein R1, R2, R5, and R6 are each a straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl or alkene, and R3 and R4 are each independently H, CH2CH3, CH3, OH, OR, COOH, COOR, or NH—C(?O)R, wherein R is a straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl or alkene, and having a molecular weight of 600 or less. At least one of R3 and R4 is not hydrogen. The heat transferable material can be in a section or patch on a thermal donor element to provide a protective overcoat material. A patch in the donor element can include a dye. The heat transferable material provides better image stability and improved iridescence when transferred to a receiver of some type.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: William B. Vreeland, David George Foster
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Patent number: 9381765Abstract: Disclosed are an intermediate transfer medium excelling in peel-off property on removing a transfer layer which include a protective layer with the aid of a peel-off layer of a thermal transfer sheet, and imparting a high durability to a print which is formed by transferring the transfer layer to a transfer receiving article, and retransferring the transfer layer onto the transfer receiving article easily, and a combination of the intermediate transfer medium and a thermal transfer sheet. The intermediate transfer medium includes a substrate sheet, a protective layer and a receiving layer which are layered on a surface of the substrate sheet. The protective layer includes two or more binder resins with mutually different number average molecular weights. A sum total of products, each calculated by multiplying the number average molecular weight of individual binder resin and its content ratio in the blend together, is ?3000 and ?17000.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kano Sakamoto, Shinya Yoda
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Patent number: 9365067Abstract: This invention relates to a conductive thermal image receiver element that has an aqueous-based coatable dye-receiving layer comprising a water-dispersible acrylic polymer, a water-dispersible polyester, a water-dispersible conductive polymeric material and a surfactant. This invention also relates to a method for making this thermal image receiver element as well as method for using it to provide a dye image by thermal transfer from a donor element.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Teh-Ming Kung, Kathleen Bonsignore, Renee L. Daniels, Lianne Heath, John P. Olscamp, Kim Standish, Ellen L. Bennett, Peter J. Ghyzel, Joseph F. Janinek, John L. Muehlbauer, Walter E. Scott
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Patent number: 9355834Abstract: An adhesive transfer method includes depositing an adhesive on a first substrate, transferring a layer of the adhesive from the first substrate to an intermediate substrate, and transferring adhesive from the layer of the adhesive to at least one area of a second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chien-Hua Chen, Michael G. Groh
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Patent number: 9321044Abstract: A catalyst-supporting porous film includes: a resin layer; and catalyst particles dispersed in the resin layer. The catalyst particles are unevenly distributed so as to be present at a surface of the resin layer. Preferably, the catalyst-supporting porous film includes a porous section and a supporting section for supporting the porous section. The number of catalyst particles per unit volume in the porous section is greater than the number of catalyst particles per unit volume in the supporting section. Thus, a catalyst-supporting porous film which has a high catalytic effect can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Wataru Horie
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Patent number: 9278570Abstract: Provided is a protective layer transfer sheet which includes a protective layer, whereby it becomes possible to form an image on the protective layer set on a print without causing the abnormal transfer of a dye layer, the breakage of the dye layer and the like, and it also becomes possible to achieve a satisfactory level of plasticizer resistance of the print. The protective layer transfer sheet including a substrate and a protective layer peelably formed on the substrate, wherein the protective layer includes one or both of a cellulose ester having a number average molecular weight of not less than 15000 and not more than 30000 and a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer having a number average molecular weight of not less than 15000 and not more than 30000, and a cellulose ester having a number average molecular weight of not more than 7000.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Suguru Yabe, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kazumasa Maeda, Kazuya Yoshida
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Patent number: 9272560Abstract: Provided is a thermal transfer sheet capable of repressing residue that accumulates before insertion of a heating element of the thermal head. In the thermal transfer sheet, a heat-resistant lubricating layer is formed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer includes one or more of layers which include a back face layer, the back face layer is arranged at a position farthest from the substrate, at least one layer which composes the heat-resistant lubricating layer includes a binder resin and organic minute particles which each has a polygonal shape, and a portion of surfaces of the organic minute particles protrude from a surface of the back layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoko Suzuki, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kano Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9242496Abstract: A printed material (5) has a transparent base member (51), a first image layer (52) formed on the base member, an intermediate layer (53) formed on the first image layer, and a second image layer (54) formed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer has a lower white background layer (531) positioned above the first image layer, a light blocking layer (532) positioned above the lower white background layer, and an upper white background layer (533) positioned above the light blocking layer. In the printed material, a thickness of the light blocking layer is uneven in conformity with undulation of the first image layer, and therefore a surface of the intermediate layer which is in contact with the second image layer is flat. With this structure, it is possible to prevent or suppress the undulation of the first image layer from appearing in the second image layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Nakano, Kazushi Moriwaki
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Patent number: 9193204Abstract: Heat transfers are provided that have indicia for enhancing the appearance of color dye sublimated fabric material, such as apparel and accessories including sportswear fabrics. The label assembly includes a transfer portion protected by a releasable support portion. The transfer portion includes a multi-layer barrier containing at least two differently formulated barrier layers. The second such barrier layer extends outwardly beyond the perimeter edge of the first barrier layer, which perimeter edge had left a recess gap in the transfer portion, which recess gap is covered by the overhang margin of the second barrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Liviu Dinescu, Osman Tanrikulu, Cary Moore
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Patent number: 9159000Abstract: A device for making security marks by means of a plurality of simultaneously backing and printing dies, each with a pre-designed image. The device makes it possible to subject a sheet of paper to a novelty simultaneous abrasion and printing method of a security mark using the dies previously and smoothly inked by means of inking rollers with either one or more inks not visible to the naked eye, but revealable by one or more temporarily applicable revealing stimuli, wherein the security mark shows as authentication evidence a pre-designed image invisible to the naked eye, but which becomes visible in many different ways, and at least one second form of verification under a revealing stimulus, wherein all forms in which the images are revealed on the paper have an absolute matching location because they are produced simultaneously and by the same backing and printing die.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: AVELINO LLCInventor: Nicolas Tadeo Ciccone
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Patent number: 9120327Abstract: A tape drive for transferring tape between a first spool and a second spool, the tape comprising at least one marker indicative of a property of the tape, the tape drive having: two spool supports, each of which is suitable for supporting a spool of tape, and a tape control system which includes: two motors and a controller for controlling the operation of the motors, each motor driving a respective one of the spool supports, and a detector that is operable, in use, to detect the presence of one or more markers on a portion of a tape, the tape control system being operable to identify a property of the tape according to the detected marker or markers.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Markem-Imaje Industries LimitedInventor: Simon Starkey
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Patent number: 9040453Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which excels in adhesiveness to a receiving layer and solvent resistance, and a manufacturing method thereof. In the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, which includes a porous layer, a barrier layer, a receiving layer which are stacked in this order on a substrate, the porous layer includes a binder resin and hollow particles, and the barrier layer includes (i) (A) a first acrylic resin and (B) one or more kinds of resins selected from the group consisting of polyester resins, polyvinyl pyrrolidone type resins, polyester type urethane resin, and a second acrylic resin which differs from the first acrylic resin; or (ii) a polyvinyl pyrrolidone type resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamamuro, Katsuyuki Hirano
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Patent number: 8969244Abstract: A thermal dye image receiver element has a substrate comprising a voided compliant layer and metalized layer. Disposed on the metalized layer is an opacifying layer that includes an opacifying agent and a dye receiving layer. This thermal dye image receiver element can be a duplex element with image receiving layers on both sides of the substrate, and it can be used in association with a thermal donor element to provide a thermal image on either or opposing sides of the receiver element. The metalized layer provides increased specular reflectance under resulting thermal dye images.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Narasimharao Dontula, Somsack Chang, James S. Honan
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Patent number: 8969245Abstract: A method for enabling D2T2 printing onto non-D2T2 printable substrates uses a diffusible primer material provided on a dye-sheet or ribbon. The primer comprises a polymer, a release agent and a plasticizer. The release agent and the plasticizer are diffused into the substrate, while the polymer remains on the dye-sheet or ribbon. Printing of the primer onto the PC substrate is controlled via a computer image program corresponding to a colored image. This computer image program also controls the printing of the colored image at the primed locations. Accordingly, image-wise treatment of a plastic material via the primer selectively renders the PC substrate surface D2T2 printable at the point of personalization, providing for a 100% PC full card body having the colored image.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Robert P. Renz, Morven McAlpine
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Patent number: 8962112Abstract: In an intermediate transfer medium, a substrate, protective layers having a layered structure of two or more layers, and a receiving layer are layered in this order. One layer in the protective layers having the layered structure contains, as a main component, one material or a mixture of two or more materials selected from the group consisting of polyesters having a high polymerization degree, a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of not less than 12,000 and a Tg of not less than 60° C., polycarbonates and polyester urethanes. Another layer in the protective layers having the layered structure contains one or more materials selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohols, polyvinyl butyrals, polyvinyl acetals and polyvinyl pyrrolidones or includes a cationic resin, and the receiving layer contains a side chain-type aralkyl-modified silicone in an amount of 0.5-5% by weight on a base of the total weight of the receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., ltd.Inventors: Shinya Yoda, Tadahiro Ishida, Mitsuhiro Oota
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Patent number: 8951933Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignees: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd., Ukima Chemicals & Color Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Hanada, Kazuya Kimura, Kenichi Takahashi, Osamu Kawakami, Manabu Uruno
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Patent number: 8932985Abstract: A vinyl chloride-based resin latex which froths little when unreacted monomer remaining in the latex are recovered under heat and reduced-pressure conditions, and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which has satisfactory water resistance, does not yellow during storage, and gives images having excellent durability and light resistance. The invention provides a vinyl chloride-based resin latex contains a copolymer containing a vinyl chloride and an epoxy-group-containing vinyl or contains vinyl chloride, an epoxy-group-containing vinyl, and a carboxylic acid vinyl ester, wherein a content of the epoxy-group-containing vinyl is 0.1% by weight or more but less than 3% by weight, and wherein the latex contains no surfactant, and has a solid concentration of 25% by weight or more; a process for producing the latex; and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet obtained using the latex.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Tosoh CorporationInventors: Haruyasu Kitaguchi, Shinichi Yoshida
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Patent number: 8916326Abstract: A thermal image receiver element dry image receiving layer has a Tg of at least 25° C. and is the outermost layer. The dry image receiving layer has a dry thickness of at least 0.5 ?m and up to and including 5 ?m. It comprises a water-dispersible release agent and a polymer binder matrix that consists essentially of: (1) a water-dispersible acrylic polymer comprising chemically reacted or chemically non-reacted hydroxyl, phospho, phosphonate, sulfo, sulfonate, carboxy, or carboxylate groups, and (2) a water-dispersible polyester that has a Tg of 30° C. or less. The water-dispersible acrylic polymer is present in an amount of at least 55 weight % and at a dry ratio to the water-dispersible polyester of at least 1:1. The thermal image receiver element can be used to prepare thermal dye images after thermal transfer from a thermal donor element.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventor: Teh-Ming Kung
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Patent number: 8895221Abstract: A thermal image receiver element dry image receiving layer has a Tg of at least 25° C. as the outermost layer. The dry image receiving layer has a dry thickness of at least 0.5 ?m and up to and including 5 ?m. It comprises a polymer binder matrix that consists essentially of: (1) a water-dispersible acrylic polymer comprising chemically reacted or chemically non-reacted hydroxyl, phospho, phosphonate, sulfo, sulfonate, carboxy, or carboxylate groups, and (2) a water-dispersible polyester that has a Tg of 30° C. or less. The water-dispersible acrylic polymer is present in an amount of at least 55 weight % of the total dry image receiving layer weight and at a dry ratio to the water-dispersible polyester of at least 1:1 to and including 20:1. The thermal image receiver element can be used to prepare thermal dye images after thermal transfer from a thermal donor element.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Teh-Ming Kung, Peter John Ghyzel, John Leonard Muehlbauer
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Patent number: 8859461Abstract: A decoration piece has: a design piece made of thermoplastic synthetic resin formed with a design and having an outer profile line; a lower layer; and a dye migration preventing layer arranged between the design piece and the lower layer, said dye migration preventing layer having an outer profile same as that of said design piece, said dye migration preventing layer capable of being adhered to both said design piece and the lower layer, said dye migration preventing layer capable of preventing any migrating of dye. The dye migration preventing layer includes a dye migration preventing film made of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer or polyamide MXD6, or a dye migration preventing film made of polyvinylidene chloride.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Inventor: Eiji Kuwahara
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Patent number: 8822376Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a base sheet, and a dye receiving layer formed on the base sheet and containing a mixture of copolymer A including styrene and acrylonitrile as monomers and a copolymer B including 2-phenoxyethyl methacrylate and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate as monomers.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Teruki Kawakami
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Patent number: 8802592Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition for protective layer transfer sheets which includes a polyester resin produced by polycondensing a polyhydric alcohol component containing a hydrogenated bisphenol A in an amount of 30 mol % or more and a polycarboxylic acid component containing a benzenedicarboxylic acid in an amount of 50 mol % or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignees: Kao Corporation, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobumichi Kamiyoshi, Takashi Mukai, Toshifusa Hirano, Masahiro Yuki
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Patent number: 8790756Abstract: A thermal-transfer laminate film includes a base film and an image protection layer. The image protection layer is provided an the base film and contains a thermoplastic resin and a pearl pigment, a content ratio of the pearl pigment with respect to 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin being 0.5 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Ryo Yasumatsu
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Patent number: 8780155Abstract: The tape cassette used in a tape printing apparatus incorporates an ink ribbon including a thermal printing layer including a coloring layer containing wax and pigment coated on a base film and an adhesive layer coated on the coloring layer, and a congealing point of the thermal printing layer is controlled to be 89 degrees Celsius or higher and difference between a glass transition point of the thermal printing layer and a melting point of the thermal printing layer is controlled to be 23 degrees Celsius or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hisako Tonishi
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Patent number: 8735320Abstract: A novel method of transfer printing onto articles, particularly dark articles, is disclosed. A design, preferably in color, is printed onto a transfer sheet in sublimation dye using a commercially-available printer. White toner is then printed over at least a portion of the design using an electrostatic printing device. Heat and pressure are applied to transfer the design and the white toner to an article. In some preferred embodiments, the transfer sheet is a self-weeding transfer paper. In some preferred embodiments, the same printer is used to print both the sublimation dye design and the white toner. In some preferred embodiments, the color palette of the image is inverted prior to printing with white toner. The invention is particularly well suited to the transfer printing of dark textile articles.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Inventor: Alfred W. La Costa
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Patent number: 8728976Abstract: Provided is printing paper for printing a stereoscopic image, including a light-transmitting image-receiving layer (12) and a linear polarizing layer (14), wherein a linear polarizing layer is patterned in a first domain and a second domain whose directions of polarizing axes are at an angle of 90° with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Shinichi Morishima
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Patent number: 8691489Abstract: A thermal image receiver element dry image receiving layer has a Tg of at least 25° C. as the outermost layer. The dry image receiving layer has a dry thickness of at least 0.5 ?m and up to and including 5 ?m. It comprises a polymer binder matrix that consists essentially of: (1) a water-dispersible acrylic polymer comprising chemically reacted or chemically non-reacted hydroxyl, phospho, phosphonate, sulfo, sulfonate, carboxy, or carboxylate groups, and (2) a water-dispersible polyester that has a Tg of 30° C. or less. The water-dispersible acrylic polymer is present in an amount of at least 55 weight % of the total dry image receiving layer weight and at a dry ratio to the water-dispersible polyester of at least 1:1. The thermal image receiver element can be used to prepare thermal dye images after thermal transfer from a thermal donor element.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Kodak Alaris, Inc.Inventors: Teh-Ming Kung, Peter J. Ghyzel, John L. Muehlbauer
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Patent number: 8680008Abstract: A system for customizing a notebook computer cover is provided. A user station provides a user interface to select at least one image and to transmit the at least one image. A server receives the at least one image from the user station and formats the at least one selected image to fit a shape of the notebook computer cover. A printer prints the at least one image onto a predetermined fabric. A heat chamber heats the notebook computer cover in response to the predetermined fabric being placed on the notebook computer cover to vaporize the image from the predetermined fabric into a clear layer of the notebook computer cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Russo, Jerry J. Kim, Jonathan D. Hood
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Patent number: 8680009Abstract: 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 a binder, spherical particles protruding from a surface of the heat-resistant lubricating layer, and tabular particles having an average particle diameter larger than or equal to the average particle diameter of the spherical particles, and the tabular particles have a specific surface area of 5 m2/g or more and an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masakazu Sawada
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Patent number: 8673535Abstract: A thermal image receiver element dry image receiving layer has a Tg of at least 25° C. and is the outermost layer. The dry image receiving layer has a dry thickness of at least 0.5 ?m and up to and including 5 ?m. It comprises a water-dispersible release agent and a polymer binder matrix that consists essentially of: (1) a water-dispersible acrylic polymer comprising chemically reacted or chemically non-reacted hydroxyl, phospho, phosphonate, sulfo, sulfonate, carboxy, or carboxylate groups, and (2) a water-dispersible polyester that has a Tg of 30° C. or less. The water-dispersible acrylic polymer is present in an amount of at least 55 weight % and at a dry ratio to the water-dispersible polyester of at least 1:1. The thermal image receiver element can be used to prepare thermal dye images after thermal transfer from a thermal donor element.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventor: Teh-Ming Kung
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Patent number: 8669204Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: ArmorInventors: Christophe Derennes, Pierre Guichard
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Patent number: 8664158Abstract: An Ink transfer medium configured to receive and transfer an image on a bi-dimensional or tri-dimensional article by way of thermal transfer. The ink transfer medium includes a sub-layer made of amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (APET), an image receiving coating, a barrier coating, a binding system, and an ink transfer coating which includes a layer having a combination of pigment systems formed by cellulose fibers, microspheres and silica. The barrier coating includes resins and mineral elements supporting the ink transfer coating applied on the APET film.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Policrom Screens S.p.A.Inventor: Giorgio Vavassori Bisutti
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Patent number: 8664159Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet including a dye receiving layer formed of a resin composition for thermal transfer image-receiving sheets, wherein said resin composition includes a resin composition (A) containing a graft polymer (A0) which contains a main chain segment (A1) formed of a polyester resin obtained by polycondensing an alcohol component containing an alkyleneoxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane in an amount of 50 mol % or more with a carboxylic acid component, and a side chain segment (A2) formed of an addition polymer-based resin, and has a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or higher; and a resin composition (B) containing a resin (B0) and having a glass transition temperature lower by from 10 to 80° C. than the glass transition temperature of the resin composition (A), and to a process for producing the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuuta Matsumoto, Nobumichi Kamiyoshi, Yoshiaki Ban, Takashi Mukai
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Patent number: 8652996Abstract: Disclosed herein are irreversible thermochromic ink compositions including a solvent and a sublimable dye dissolved in the solvent. The solvent and the sublimable dye can be, optionally, encapsulated. Written marks made with the thermochromic ink compositions can be subjected to a force directing component and/or a heat source, to promote sublimation of the sublimable dye, thereby causing the written mark to change color or become substantially colorless.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Sanford, L.P.Inventor: Wing Sum Vincent Kwan
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Patent number: 8648010Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet including a dye receiving layer which contains a resin (A) including a graft polymer containing a main chain segment (A1) formed of a polyester resin having an acid value of from 5 to 40 mgKOH/g and a side chain segment (A2) formed of an addition polymer-based resin, wherein the segment (A1) is obtained by polycondensing an alcohol component containing an alkyleneoxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane in an amount of 60 mol % or more with a carboxylic acid component, and the segment (A2) contains a constitutional unit derived from an aromatic group-containing addition-polymerizable monomer in an amount of 85% by weight or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Nobumichi Kamiyoshi, Takashi Mukai, Yoshiaki Ban, Yuuta Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8609583Abstract: A sublimation printing apparatus (1) which includes a tray (2) for receiving a three dimensional object (10) having a film (12) carrying sublimable ink, an infrared heater (3) mounted adjacent the tray (2) and a airflow inducing device (4). The infrared heater (3) is operable to direct infrared radiation toward the tray (2). The airflow inducing device (4) is operable to induce a flow of air across the film (12).Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Inventor: Peter John Hoggard
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Patent number: 8609584Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a thermal transfer dye layer formed on one surface of a base sheet and containing a dye and a heat resistant smooth layer formed on the other surface of the base sheet and containing a binder, a lubricant, and a filler. The binder contained in the heat resistant smooth layer is obtainable by mixing a polyvinyl acetoacetal resin with an acryl silicone resin which has a mass average molecular weight of 100,000 or more and is in the form of a powdery solid at an ordinary temperature at a ratio of 10 parts by mass or less of the acryl silicone resin relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetoacetal resin, and the heat resistant smooth layer further contains 10 parts by mass or more and 30 parts by mass or less of isocyanate relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetoacetal resin and phosphoric acid ester having a melting point of 50° C. or more as the lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masakazu Sawada
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Patent number: 8598076Abstract: A display device includes a thin film transistor substrate, a display layer, a patterned color resist layer, a patterned UV block layer and a transparent protective layer. The thin film transistor substrate has a substrate and a plurality of thin film transistors. The display layer is disposed on the thin film transistor substrate. The patterned color resist layer is disposed on the display layer. The patterned UV block layer is disposed on the patterned color resist layer. The transparent protective layer is disposed on the patterned UV block layer. The present invention also provides a laser transfer printing method for fabricating the color resist layer and the patterned UV block layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Fang-An Shu, Ted-Hong Shinn, Yao-Chou Tsai, Wen-Chung Tang