Patents Assigned to Agfa
  • Publication number: 20220267908
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing metallic articles (6) including the steps of: —applying a radiation curable composition comprising a monomer including at least two polymerisable groups on a surface of a substrate thereby forming an image (2); —curing the image; —plating (4) or etching (3) a surface of the substrate not covered by the cured image by means of an alkaline solution; —removing (5) the cured image by means of an acidic solution; characterized in that a linking group between the polymerisable groups comprises at least one acid degradable or hydrolysable group selected from the group consisting of an acetal, a ketal, an orthoester, an orthocarbonate, a tertiary ester, a tertiary carbonate and a tertiary urethane and wherein the composition further comprises less than 10 wt % of other monomers including at least two polymerisable groups relative to the total weight of the polymerisable composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT NV
    Inventor: Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 11423274
    Abstract: A natural leather embossed with a skin texture for authenticating said natural leather with an identification code comprising the steps: —applying a protective top-coat on said natural leather; and —selecting an identification code and converting said identification code to a plurality of locations; and —forming a skin texture with higher up elements and lower located elements; arranged according said plurality of locations; and —embossing said skin texture in said protective top-coat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Joris Van Garsse
  • Patent number: 11425277
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing decorative panels includes rendering a wood pattern on a paper with a marking device to form a decorative layer before resin impregnation and heat pressing, wherein the marking device includes M inks and N inkjet printhead units. The rendering is performed in a plurality of passes in which each inkjet printhead unit includes the M inks, and the rendering step includes generating N sub-images in which an intensity of each pixel in the wood pattern equals the sum of intensities of corresponding pixels from the N sub-images, and the intensity of a pixel from a first sub-image from the N sub-images is a first percentage between 1 and 99 of the intensity of corresponding pixel in the wood pattern, and the intensity of a corresponding pixel from a second sub-image from the N sub-images is a second percentage between 1 and 99 of the intensity of corresponding pixel in the wood pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Luc Bouwens
  • Patent number: 11422468
    Abstract: An effervescent developer precursor for preparing a developing solution for developing a lithographic printing plate precursor including an effervescence generating compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Thomas Billiet, Sam Verbrugghe
  • Publication number: 20220259751
    Abstract: A separator for alkaline water electrolysis (1) comprising a porous hydrophilic polymer layer (20), the porous hydrophilic polymer layer comprising a polymer resin and hydrophilic inorganic particles, characterized in that the inorganic particles are barium-sulfate particles having a particle size D50 of 0.7 pm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT NV
    Inventor: Willem MUES
  • Publication number: 20220257211
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and a system that allows to accurately calculate positional information of moving image modality components for a sequence of tomographic exposures. The method allows to accurately determine the exact positions of said movable image modality components, and thus the acquisition geometry at the time of the tomographic acquisition, which allows a more accurate image reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Oskar Hujer
  • Publication number: 20220259448
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion, the polyurethane resin having a cationic group and a polyalkylene oxide in a side chain thereof and is obtainable by reacting a polyisocyanate with a polyether diol and with a polymeric diol such as a polyester diol, polyether diol, polycarbonate diol, polyacrylate diol or polyolefin diol and with a cationic polyol selected from the group consisting of an quaternary ammonium, a quaternary phosphonium, a tertiary sulfonium and a iodonium wherein the cationic polyol comprises at least two hydroxyl groups and has a total number of carbon atoms making up the carbon chains between the cationic charged atom and a hetero atom or end of the carbon chain of the cation over charge ratio of at least 12. The aqueous dispersion can be used in treatment liquids for inkjet printing and in inkjet inks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Johan Loccufier, Marie Lehericey, Mei-Yuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220258515
    Abstract: A method of preparing a conductive silver pattern on a substrate comprising the step of: —applying a silver ink on the substrate to form a silver pattern, and —sintering the applied silver pattern, characterized in that the silver ink comprises a compound which decomposes exothermally during sintering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT NV
    Inventors: Fernando Cortes Salazar, Karl Van Den Bossche
  • Publication number: 20220259366
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion, the polyurethane resin having a polyalkylene oxide in a side chain thereof and is obtainable by reacting in an organic solvent, a polyisocyanate with a 1,2 or 1,3 polyether diol and with a polymeric diol selected from the group consisting of polyester diol, polyether diol, polycarbonate diol, polyacrylate diol and polyolefin diol and by adding a cationic surfactant or cationic surfactant precursor to the organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Johan Loccufier, Marie Lehericey, Mei-Yuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220256053
    Abstract: A method of digital halftoning a continuous tone image into a halftone raster image having halftone cells wherein each halftone cell has a shape; wherein the method comprises the step generating a halftone dot in said halftone cell with a threshold array for determining non-image pixels and image pixels in said halftone cell and wherein said non-image pixels represent a first closed contour and image pixels represent a second closed contour; and wherein said first closed contour and/or second closed contour has a morphologic image processed shape from the shape of said halftone cell and wherein the halftone cells are arranged according to a periodic tessellation using a tile wherein each halftone cell has one or more edges which is not straight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Rudolf Bartels
  • Patent number: 11407913
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) wherein an inkjet printing step is used, characterized in that in the inkjet printing step a radiation curable inkjet ink comprising an adhesion promoter having a chemical structure according to Formula I is jetted and cured on a substrate, wherein X is selected from the group consisting of O and NR3, L1 and L2 independently represent a divalent linking group comprising from 2 to 20 carbon atoms, R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, R2 is selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkaryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted (hetero)aryl group, R3 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERT NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Rita Torfs
  • Publication number: 20220244644
    Abstract: A method of preparing a transparent conductive film (100) comprising the steps of: —applying a nano-silver composition on a substrate thereby forming a nano-silver coating (20) on the substrate (10), —imagewise exposing the nano-silver coating with Near Infrared (NIR) radiation (40) thereby forming exposed and non-exposed areas, and —removing (70) the non-exposed areas of the nano-silver coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT NV
    Inventors: Matthew Friskey, Karl Van Den Bossche, Peter Willaert, Fernando Cortes Salazar
  • Patent number: 11400701
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a decorative surface includes the steps of a) impregnating a paper substrate with a thermosetting resin; b) jetting a colour pattern with one or more aqueous inkjet inks including a polymer latex binder on the thermosetting resin impregnated paper; c) drying the one or more aqueous inkjet inks; and d) heat pressing the thermosetting paper carrying the colour pattern into a decorative surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: AGFA NV, Unilin BVBA
    Inventors: Roel De Mondt, Rita Torfs
  • Publication number: 20220238239
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method which, given a set of procedure definitions in a first radiology information system generates the best match for a procedure definition defined in a second system on the basis of a multidimensional vector representation of procedure definitions and a matching algorithm based on vector cosine similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Agfa Healthcare NV
    Inventors: Roel Adriaensens, Yoni De Witte
  • Publication number: 20220227147
    Abstract: A method for decorating a natural leather comprising the following steps: a) holding by vacuum suction the natural leather with its corium side to an air-permeable support onto a vacuum support of an inkjet printer; and b) inkjet printing a decorative image on the natural leather wherein the air-permeable support is partly covered by said natural leather. The air-permeable support comprises a fibrous layer in contact with the corium side of the natural leather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Luc De Roeck
  • Publication number: 20220230031
    Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) for digital binary halftoning a continuous tone image (CT) by a threshold tile (TT) into a halftone raster image (RT) for a printing device capable of printing on a plurality of substrates (S1, S2, . . . , SM); wherein said processor comprises an input field in which information regarding a substrate is to be used; a memory having stored thereon a plurality of threshold tiles (TT1, TT2, . . . , TTN) for generating regularly tiled halftone dots; and a threshold selector which is capable to select said threshold tile (TT) of said plurality of threshold tiles (TT1, TT2, . . . , TTN) based on information supplied to the input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Agfa NV
    Inventor: Rudolf Bartels
  • Publication number: 20220227146
    Abstract: An inkjet printer (500) for printing on natural leather (300) comprising a first vacuum belt (150) for conveying an unwoven fabric (200) which is, configured as a second vacuum belt, for conveying under an inkjet print head (505) a natural leather (300); and a device for applying pressure to said natural leather (300) on said second vacuum belt; wherein said device comprises a portion for traversing said natural leather (300) with a rub by a relative movement between said pressure device and said second vacuum belt, carrying said natural leather (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Luc De Roeck
  • Publication number: 20220220329
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink set for manufacturing decorative panels comprising: a) a cyan aqueous inkjet ink containing a beta-copper phthalocyanine pigment; b) a red aqueous inkjet ink containing a red pigment R and a polymeric dispersant P; c) a yellow aqueous inkjet ink containing a yellow pigment; and d) a black aqueous inkjet ink containing a carbon black pigment; wherein the red aqueous inkjet ink has a weight ratio R/P of red pigment R to polymeric dispersant P that complies with 1.2<R/P<3.0; and wherein the average particle diameter APD of the red pigment R complies with 175 nm<APD<240 nm, as determined by a dynamic light scattering technique using a laser having an emission wavelength of 633 nm and measured under a scattering angle of 90 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Jens Lenaerts, Lionel Petton, Sonny Wynants
  • Publication number: 20220215213
    Abstract: A halftone raster image, suitable for rendering a continuous-tone image, which comprises a plurality of regularly tiled spiral dots. Said spiral dots comprise (i) image pixels arranged as a first arc (200) or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a first spiral (100), and (ii) non-image pixels arranged as a second arc (201) or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a second spiral (101), wherein neighbour halftone dots from said plurality of regularly tiled halftone dots represent a double spiral or triple spiral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Agfa NV
    Inventor: Rudolf Bartels
  • Publication number: 20220212827
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a packaging box (8) including the steps of: a) determining minimal packaging box dimensions based on outer dimensions of one or more merchandise articles (19) to be packaged into the packaging box; b) digitally printing an image according to the minimal packaging box dimensions on packaging material (1), such as corrugated card board; and c) cutting and creasing the packaging box from the packaging material according to the minimal packaging box dimensions. A manufacturing line for packaging boxes of different dimensions is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Agfa NV
    Inventors: Johan Van Hunsel, Eddy DeDobbeleer