Patents Assigned to Agfa
  • Patent number: 10039193
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing conductive patterns includes the steps of a) printing and curing UV curable inkjet to define a cured inkjet ink pattern on a metal sheet bonded to a non-conductive substrate; b) etching the metal sheet not covered by the cured ink pattern to expose the non-conductive substrate; and c) applying an alkaline solution to dissolve the cured inkjet ink pattern within 5 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Rita Torfs, Johan Loccufier
  • Publication number: 20180211004
    Abstract: A system and method for providing breast image data. A transmission request is transmitted from a workstation to an imaging server with identifying characteristics for a mammography image. A pre-determined breast window for the mammography image is identified. An unprocessed image stored on the server that corresponds to the mammography image is identified, and breast image data can be determined for unprocessed image. The breast image data includes a breast window image that can be determined by applying the pre-determined breast window to the unprocessed image. The breast image data is transmitted to the clinician workstation, and the breast window image is displayed at the clinician workstation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Agfa HealthCare Inc.
    Inventor: Viktor Kopylov
  • Publication number: 20180201798
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink for forming a colour upon heat treatment includes a) an immobilized leuco dye; b) a colour developing agent or colour developing agent precursor; and c) optionally an opthothermal converting agent; wherein the leuco dye is immobilized by being covalently bonded to polymeric particles or by being included in the core of capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Johan LOCCUFIER, Fabienne GOETHALS, Hubertus VAN AERT, Dirk KOKKELENBERG
  • Patent number: 10022956
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing decorative surfaces includes the steps of inkjet printing a color pattern with one or more aqueous inkjet inks including a polyurethane based latex binder; impregnating a paper substrate with a thermosetting resin; and heat pressing the thermosetting resin impregnated paper substrate carrying the inkjet printed color pattern into a decorative surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: AGFA NV, UNILIN BVBA
    Inventors: Roel De Mondt, Laurent Meersseman
  • Patent number: 10005916
    Abstract: An inkjet ink includes a) an aqueous medium; and b) capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core; wherein the capsules are dispersed in the aqueous medium using a dispersing group covalently bonded to the polymeric shell; wherein the core contains a photoinitiator and one or more chemical reactants capable of forming a reaction product upon application of UV light; wherein the capsules have an average particle size of no more than 4 ?m as determined by dynamic laser diffraction; and wherein the photoinitiator is a diffusion hindered photoinitiator selected from the group consisting of multifunctional photoinitiators, oligomeric photoinitiators, polymeric photoinitiators and polymerizable photoinitiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Luc Decoster
  • Publication number: 20180166161
    Abstract: A workflow management system for medical report production includes a workflow database that stores workflows, a user database that stores users, a task configurator that generates and configures tasks for production of a medical report in correspondence with rules of a workflow out of the workflows and assigns the tasks to users out of the user database, the tasks including at least one multi-author task, and an exclusion list manager that maintains an exclusion list of excluded authors for the multi-author task, wherein the task configurator is operationally coupled to the exclusion list manager and adapted to exclude the excluded authors when assigning the multi-author task to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NV
    Inventors: Nancy SAMI, Wim GEERAERTS, Olivier DEBELS, Caroline BOGAERT
  • Patent number: 9996951
    Abstract: A computerized tomographic image exposure and reconstruction method wherein an object is subjected to irradiation during a relative movement of a source of radiation, the object, and a radiation detector and wherein a digital representation of the radiation image of the object is computed by applying a tomographic reconstruction algorithm to image data read out of the irradiated radiation detector. A number of projection images are generated, each of the projection images being generated by integrating X-ray beams continuously emitted during the relative movement through a predefined movement path, and the created projection images are modeled in a tomographic reconstruction algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: Agfa HealthCare, Universiteit Antwerpen
    Inventors: Jan Sijbers, Jeroen Cant
  • Patent number: 9994020
    Abstract: A high viscosity jetting method includes jetting a liquid by a through-flow piezoelectric printhead through a nozzle in a nozzle plate, wherein a section of a nozzle has a shape including an outer edge with a minimum covering circle, the maximum distance from the outer edge to the center of the minimum covering circle is greater than the minimum distance from the outer edge to the center from the minimum covering circle times 1.2, and the jetting viscosity of the liquid is at least 20 mPa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Stefaan De Meutter, Jaroslav Katona, David Tilemans
  • Publication number: 20180154667
    Abstract: A laser markable composition includes (a) an aqueous medium; (b) capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core; (c) a colour developing agent or colour developing agent precursor; and (d) an optothermal converting agent; characterized in that the core of the capsule contains a leuco dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Fabienne GOETHALS, Johan LOCCUFIER, Dirk KOKKELENBERG, Lionel PETTON
  • Publication number: 20180147874
    Abstract: A colour laser markable article includes at least a first and a second laser markable layer including, respectively, a first infrared dye IR-1 having an absorption maximum in the infrared region ?max(IR-1) and a second infrared dye IR-2 having an absorption maximum in the infrared region ?max(IR-2), characterized in that the colour laser markable layers further include a Diffusion Hindered Molecular Assembly (DHMA) which contains a leuco dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Marin STEENACKERS, Johan LOCCUFIER, Luc DECOSTER
  • Patent number: 9982072
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of optionally asymmetric acetal compounds includes reacting a compound containing a hydroxyl group with a vinylether compound in the presence of a zwitterionic catalyst including at least one basic nitrogen containing structural fragment and at least one sulfonic acid group in its structure, with the proviso that a molar ratio of the basic nitrogen to sulfonic acid is 1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 9985155
    Abstract: A backsheet for a photovoltaic module includes a support and a primer provided on a side of the support facing a sealing layer, the primer including an acrylic resin and a crosslinking agent, characterized in that the acrylic resin is a copolymer including at least 5 wt % of an acrylate monomer unit containing a UV absorbing group and at least 2 wt % of an acrylate monomer unit containing a crosslinkable group both relative to the total weight of monomer units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Geert Vercruysse, Simon McKie
  • Patent number: 9984210
    Abstract: A method for performing a job list of radiographic recordings indicated in a radiographic information systems includes communicating the job list to a mobile apparatus, e.g. a smartphone, whereby, in a first step, a peer-to-peer communication is set up between the radiographic information system and the mobile apparatus by a Near Field Communication technique, whereupon the job list is transmitted to the mobile apparatus via a WIFI peer-to-peer communication. A radiographer then completes the job list by using, inter alia, a self-triggering direct radiographic panel and a radiographic generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Wim Govaerts, Patrick Pandelaers
  • Patent number: 9984458
    Abstract: Vascular structures are segmented by a locally adaptive method based on iterative region growing and morphological operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Asma Ouji, Yoni De Witte
  • Patent number: 9969187
    Abstract: A belt step conveyor system includes a moving belt gripper mounted on a linear movement system to convey the conveyor belt rotating about a plurality of pulleys in successive distance movements while the moving belt gripper engages the conveying belt and the moving belt gripper is moved from a home position to an end position by linear movement system. The conveyor belt is stagnant by engaging a stagnating belt gripper while the moving belt gripper moves back to its home position, else the stagnating belt gripper releases the conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Luc De Roeck, Eric Piron, Jan Zwijsen
  • Patent number: 9962963
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing of an inkjet flatbed table including a large support layer with an area of at least 1.5 m2 to support an ink receiver in an inkjet printing system, the method including the steps of fixing a plate on top of a base unit by forming a part of or whole the support layer; and abrading the fixed plate to have a flatness on the top of the support layer less than 300 ?m and wherein the plate is characterized by including a thermoplastic polymer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Luc De Roeck
  • Patent number: 9962923
    Abstract: A method of making a lithographic printing plate includes the steps of a) image-wise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor including a hydrophilic support and a coating containing a colorant precursor to form a lithographic image consisting of printing areas and non-printing areas, b) developing the plate precursor to remove the coating in the non-printing areas from the support, and c) drying the plate precursor, and d) subjecting the plate precursor to heat or radiation to induce a colour change of the coating in the printing areas, wherein before step b) the coating in the non-printing areas and the support are characterised by a CIE 1976 colour difference ?E1 which is 5.0 or less, and after step d) the CIE 1976 colour difference ?E2 between the coating in the printing areas and the non-printing areas is more than 6.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Peter Hendrikx, Paul Callant, Marin Steenackers, Sam Verbrugghe
  • Patent number: 9938420
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing metallic articles from a metal substrate includes the steps of: a) jetting an image with a UV curable inkjet ink on at least one surface of the metallic substrate; b) UV curing the image; c) electroplating or acidic etching the at least one metallic surface not covered by the UV cured image; and d) stripping or solubilizing the UV cured image by an aqueous alkaline solution; wherein the UV curable inkjet ink has a viscosity of no more than 100 mPa·s at 25° C. and at a shear rate of 1,000 s?1; and wherein the UV curable inkjet ink contains a specific polymerizable composition and up to 20 wt % of photoinitiator including at least one of an acyl phosphine oxide photoinitiator and a thioxanthone photoinitiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Rita Torfs, Roel De Mondt, Blanca Maria Pastor Ramirez, Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 9931878
    Abstract: A colour laser markable laminate includes a colour laser markable layer including a leuco dye and an infrared absorbing compound, an optional adhesive layer, a polymeric support, an optional outerlayer, wherein the colour laser markable layer further includes an acid scavenger. The support, the optional adhesive layer, or the optional outer layer includes a UV absorbing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Marin Steenackers, Johan Loccufier, Bart Aerts, Anouschka Depla
  • Patent number: 9920213
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method includes the steps of: a) printing a first print job by jetting a free radical UV curable white inkjet ink from a white ink print head and one or more free radical UV curable color inkjet inks from one or more other print heads in a UV curable inkjet printer; b) filling the white ink print head in the UV curable inkjet printer with a safeguard liquid including one or more free radical polymerizable monomers; c) printing a second print job employing only the one or more other print heads in the UV curable inkjet printer for jetting one or more free radical UV curable color inkjet inks; d) replacing the safeguard liquid of the white ink print head in the UV curable inkjet printer by UV curable white inkjet ink; and e) printing a third print job by jetting free radical UV curable white inkjet ink from the white ink print head and jetting one or more free radical UV curable color inkjet inks from one or more other print heads in the UV curable inkjet printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Koen Steert, Johan Meys