Patents Examined by Richard L. Schilling
  • Patent number: 7108949
    Abstract: A donor substrate for a laser induced thermal imaging method and an organic light emitting display (OLED) fabricated using the donor substrate are provided. There is also provided a method of fabricating an OLED capable of controlling static electricity when an organic layer is formed using an laser induced thermal imaging method, since the donor substrate having a conductive layer is electrically connected to an earthed stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mu-Hyun Kim, Byung-Doo Chin, Myung-Won Song, Seong-Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 7108950
    Abstract: Corner mask portions are provided at four corners of an exposure opening. The corner mask portions are formed by rounding the corners into curves. The quantity of developing solution contained in a developing solution pod is reduced, consequently, it is possible to reduce the thickness of a solution pod section and a trap section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Asakura
  • Patent number: 7108951
    Abstract: The photosensitive resin composition comprising: (A) a resin containing (A1) a repeating unit having at least two groups represented by the specific general formula; and (B) a compound capable of generating an acid by the action with one of an actinic ray and a radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Kazuyoshi Mizutani, Shinichi Kanna
  • Patent number: 7108957
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an organic anti-reflective coating composition and a method for forming photoresist patterns using the same. The anti-reflective coating compositions are useful for preventing reflection of a lower film layer or a substrate of a photoresist film, reducing standing waves caused by light and variations in the thickness of the photoresist itself, and increasing the uniformity of the photoresist patterns. More particularly, the present invention relates to an organic anti-reflective coating composition comprising particular organo-silicon based polymers and a method for forming photoresist patterns using the same. The organic anti-reflective coating composition can prevent excessive absorbency of an anti-reflective film formed therefrom and, thus, minimize the reflectivity of the film so that it can efficiently remove standing waves and increase the uniformity of the photoresist pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Jae-chang Jung, Ki-soo Shin
  • Patent number: 7105256
    Abstract: A photosensitive conductive composition including a silver powder having an X-ray diffraction pattern in which a half width of a silver (111) peak is at least about 0.15°, an organic binder, a photopolymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and a lead-free glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Taiyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunobu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 7105264
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method to form a patterned conductive film by modifying a conductive thin film on a substrate irrespective of the material used for the substrate. Exemplary embodiments include a substrate having a conductive layer containing a conductive material and a photothermal conversion layer containing a photothermal conversion material that converts light energy into heat energy that is irradiated with a laser beam to fire at least part of the conductive layer with the photothermal conversion material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Toyoda
  • Patent number: 7101654
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to novel norbornene-type monomers containing pendent lactone or sultone groups. The invention also relates to norbornene-type polymers and copolymers comprising one or more repeating units represented by the formula: and containing pendent lactone or sultone groups. These polymers and copolymers are useful in making photoimagable materials. The photoimagable materials are particularly suitable for use in photoresist compositions useful in 193 and 157 nm photolithography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Promerus LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoming Wu, Larry F. Rhodes, Lawrence Seger
  • Patent number: 7097955
    Abstract: The invention provides a multi-color image-forming material for recording an image by using an image-receiving sheet having an image-receiving layer and at least 4 kinds of heat transfer sheets different from each other in color and comprising a support having provided thereon at least a light-to-heat conversion layer and an image-forming layer, superposing the image-forming layer of each of the thermal transfer sheet on the image-receiving layer of the image-receiving sheet, in which the image-forming layer is opposed to the image-receiving layer, and irradiating a laser light thereto to transfer the laser-irradiated area of the image-forming layer to the image-receiving layer of the image-receiving sheet, wherein the material contains a heat transfer sheet (X) having an image-forming layer containing one selected from among Pigment Red 48:1, Pigment Red 48:3, Pigment Green 7, Pigment Blue 15:6, Pigment Blue 60, Pigment Violet 23 and Pigment Orange 43, and a method for forming a multi-color image comprises u
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yoshinari, Shinji Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 7097960
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an alkaline solution, comprising dissolving a gaseous molecule having oxidizing properties or reducing properties in an aqueous alkaline solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Riichiro Takahashi, Kei Hayasaki, Tomoyuki Takeishi, Shinichi Ito
  • Patent number: 7097961
    Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, said thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, at least one binder and at least one stabilizer represented by formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atoms and aliphatic, alkoxy, nitro, acyl, sulfonyl, nitrile, alkaryl, aryl, amino, thioalkyl, aldehyde, urea, —O—(C?O)-alkyl, —O—(C?O)-aryl, —O—(C?O)—O-alkyl, —O—(C?O)—O-aryl, —NH—(C?O)-alkyl, —NH—(C?O)-aryl, —(C?O)—NH-alkyl, —(C?O)—NH-aryl, —NH—(SO2)-alkyl, —NH—(SO2)-aryl, —(SO2)—NH-alkyl, —(SO2)—NH-aryl groups; X is represented by -A(-M)n or is selected from the group consisting of substituted aliphatic groups, unsubstituted aliphatic groups, substituted cycloaliphatic groups, unsubstituted cycloaliphatic groups
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert
    Inventors: Frank Louwet, Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 7090959
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for laser heat transfer comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having different colors each comprising a substrate and a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer provided thereon, characterized in that (a) Ra and Rz showing the surface roughness of the image receiving sheet satisfy the following relationships 3?Rz/Ra?20 and 0.5 ?m?Rz?3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shimomura, Yuichi Shirasaki, Hideyuki Nakamura, Susumu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 7087351
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display comprising at least one substrate having at least one electrically modulated imaging layer thereon, at least one patterned electrically conductive layer, and at least one antistatic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter T. Aylward, Debasis Majumdar, Hwei-Ling Yau, William J. Durkin, Donald O. Bigelow, Daniel A. Slater, Kelly S. Robinson
  • Patent number: 7087361
    Abstract: A presensitized plate in which an image recording layer is formed on a support for a lithographic printing plate obtainable by performing a treatment with an aqueous solution containing one or more divalent or multivalent cations at a concentration ranging from 0.0001 mol/L to less than 0.020 mol/L is excellent in both scum resistance and press life when processed into a lithographic printing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehito Sasaki, Hisashi Hotta
  • Patent number: 7086529
    Abstract: There is provided a packaging material for a photographic light-sensitive material, the packaging material being formed from a resin composition that contains a compound having an unsaturated double bond or that contains a poly(conjugated diene) component, a metal ion that can promote a catalytic oxidation reaction of the unsaturated double bond and the poly(conjugated diene), and a chelating agent that can coordinate the metal ion in an amount sufficient to suppress the catalytic oxidation reaction. There is also provided a photographic light-sensitive material package formed by housing the photographic light-sensitive material in the packaging material for the photographic light-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yoneyama, Kenji Sashihara, Takanori Masuda
  • Patent number: 7083896
    Abstract: An improved digitally imageable relief printing element having an increased direct-cure imaging speed upon exposure to lasers and other digital sources of actinic radiation. The printing elements of the invention comprise a reflective layer beneath a photosensitive resin layer so that instead of being absorbed by the reflective layer, photons of actinic radiation are reflected back up into the photosensitive layer, thereby speeding up the curing rate of the printing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Napp Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Roberts, Geoffrey Yuxin Hu
  • Patent number: 7083885
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antistatic article comprising a substrate or support having thereon at least one antistatic layer, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a conductive material having areas of patterned coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter T. Aylward, Debasis Majumdar, Robert C. Daly, Kelly S. Robinson, Barry A. Fitzgerald, Paul A. Christian
  • Patent number: 7083891
    Abstract: A multicolor image forming material in which a laser beam irradiated region of an image forming layer of a thermal transfer sheet is transferred onto an image receiving layer of an image receiving sheet, wherein: (a) a rate of heat shrinkage in the machine direction and a rate of heat shrinkage in the traverse direction of the image receiving sheet are both not more than 1% with the rate of heat shrinkage in the traverse direction being smaller than the rate of heat shrinkage in the machine direction, (b) a coefficient of dynamic friction between the thermal transfer sheet surface and the image receiving sheet surface is not more than 0.70, (c) a stiffness in the machine direction (Msh) and a stiffness in the traverse direction (Tsh) of the thermal transfer sheet are both from 30 to 70 g, a stiffness in the machine direction (Msr) and in the traverse direction (Tsr) of the image receiving sheet are both from 40 to 90 g, Msh/Tsh and Msr/Tsr are each from 0.75 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shimomura, Shinichi Yoshinari, Kazuhito Miyake
  • Patent number: 7083895
    Abstract: Imageable elements, useful as on press developable lithographic printing plate precursors, are disclosed. The elements comprise an imageable layer over a substrate and an one or more adhesion promoting ingredients. The imageable layer comprises a polymerizable compound and a polymeric binder. The adhesion promoting ingredients are titanium chelate and/or co-polymers of a monomer having a polethylene oxide side chain with a monomer having either an acidic group or an anhydride group that has been ring opened to form an acidic group or groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Kodak Polychrome Graphics LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Hunter, Eric Clark, James Mulligan, Saraiya Shashikant, Jianbing Huang
  • Patent number: 7081329
    Abstract: A planographic printing plate precursor including: a support; and an image recording layer which is disposed on the support and contains a binder polymer, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, and an IR absorber. Upon exposure with a laser beam, an exposed portion of the image recording layer in the vicinity of the surface of the image recording layer is cured, and an exposed portion of the image recording layer in the vicinity of an interface between the image recording layer and the support is not cured. A developing rate of an unexposed portion of the image recording layer by an alkaline developer having a pH of 10 to 13.5 is preferably 100 nm/sec or more, and a permeation rate of the alkaline developer to an exposed portion of the image recording layer is preferably 100 nF/sec or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugasaki, Kazuto Kunita
  • Patent number: 7081324
    Abstract: An image transfer sheet is provided which comprises a support, a barrier layer, a dye sublimation ink layer and a polyester layer; wherein the image transfer sheet exhibits cold peel, warm peel and hot peel properties when transferred. A method for transferring an image to a receptor element using the image transfer sheet is also provided. More specifically, the invention relates to an image transfer sheet which can be applied to a receptor element, such as cotton or cotton/polyester blend fabrics or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Foto-Wear, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald S. Hare, Scott A. Williams