Patents by Inventor Andre Bellens

Andre Bellens has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6579671
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing one or more of silver behenate, silver palmitate, and silver stearate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate, palmitate, or stearate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions, production processes for particles of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt primarily comprising silver behenate, silver palmitate, or stearate, with described X-ray characteristics in the substantial absence of organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert
    Inventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
  • Publication number: 20020150849
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing one or more of silver behenate, silver palmitate, and silver stearate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate, palmitate, or stearate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions, production processes for particles of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt primarily comprising silver behenate, silver palmitate, or stearate, with described X-ray characteristics in the substantial absence of organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
  • Patent number: 6159667
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing silver behenate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions and when the recording material is irradiated with a copper K.alpha..sub.1 X-ray source the ratio, normalized to a quantity of silver in the recording material of 1 g per m.sup.2 thereof, of the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines attributable to silver behenate at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 6.01.degree., 7.56.degree., 9.12.degree., 10.66.degree., 12.12.degree. and 13.62.degree. to the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 25.60.degree., 35.16.degree. and 43.40.degree. of NIST standard 1976, rhombohedral Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, determined with the same X-ray diffractometer in the same state of adjustment, is greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Andre Bellens, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens
  • Patent number: 6127102
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing silver stearate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver stearate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions and when the recording material is irradiated with a copper K.alpha..sub.1 X-ray source the ratio of the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines attributable to silver stearate at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 2.THETA., of 3.62.degree., 5.45.degree., 7.30.degree., 9.04.degree., 10.97.degree. and 12.71.degree. to the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 25.60.degree., 35.16.degree. and 43.40.degree. of NIST standard 1976, rhombohedral Al.sub.2 O.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Yvan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
  • Patent number: 6114100
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element comprising silver palmitate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver palmitate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions and when the recording material is irradiated with a copper K.alpha..sub.1 X-ray source the ratio of the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines attributable to silver palmitate at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 4.01.degree., 6.049.degree., 8.031.degree., 10.06.degree., 12.08.degree. and 14.09.degree. to the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 25.60.degree., 35.16.degree. and 43.40.degree. of NIST standard 1976, rhombohedral Al.sub.2 O.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Yvan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
  • Patent number: 6096486
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing silver behenate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions and when the recording material is irradiated with a copper K.alpha..sub.1 X-ray source the ratio, normalized to a quantity of silver in the recording material of 1 g per m.sup.2 thereof, of the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines attributable to silver behenate at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 6.01.degree., 7.56.degree., 9.12.degree., 10.66.degree., 12.12.degree. and 13.62.degree. to the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines at Bragg angles, 2.THETA., of 25.60.degree., 35.16.degree. and 43.40.degree. of NIST standard 1976, rhombohedral Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, determined with the same X-ray diffractometer in the same state of adjustment, is greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Andre Bellens, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens