Patents by Inventor Christine J. Landry
Christine J. Landry 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).
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Patent number: 9321239Abstract: A laser-engravable patternable element can be used to provide a relief image for various types of printing including flexographic printing. This laser-engraveable patternable element has a one laser-engravable layer that comprises a thermoplastic elastomeric interpolymer alloy that comprises a non-crosslinked halogenated polymer, a partially crosslinked polyolefin, and a polyester. A relief image can be obtained by directly laser-engraving the noted element under suitable conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Lawrence A. Rowley, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 9180654Abstract: A composition comprises a fluoropolymer such as an elastomeric fluoropolymer and at least 1 weight % of a fluoro-functionalized near-infrared radiation absorber. This composition can be formed into laser-engraveable layers for various elements that can be laser-engraved to provide relief images. The resulting laser-engraved elements can take various forms including flexographic printing members, and can be used to apply various inks to receiver materials in an imagewise fashion.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Anna C. Greene, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Steven Evans
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Publication number: 20140087139Abstract: A method is used to provide a pattern of a functional material for example on a receiving element. To provide this pattern, a laser-engraveable patternable element is imagewise exposed with laser-engraving radiation. This element has a laser-engraveable layer comprising a thermoplastic elastomeric interpolymer alloy. This interpolymer alloy comprises a non-crosslinked halogenated polymer, a partially crosslinked polyolefin, and a polyester. A laser-engraved patterned element is formed that has a relief image in the laser-engraveable layer, and this relief image can be contacted with a suitable functional material that is then transferred to the receiving element to provide the desired pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: Lawrence A. Rowley, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20140087077Abstract: A laser-engravable patternable element can be used to provide a relief image for various types of printing including flexographic printing. This laser-engraveable patternable element has a one laser-engravable layer that comprises a thermoplastic elastomeric interpolymer alloy that comprises a non-crosslinked halogenated polymer, a partially crosslinked polyolefin, and a polyester. A relief image can be obtained by directly laser-engraving the noted element under suitable conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: Lawrence A. Rowley, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20130284990Abstract: A composition comprises a fluoropolymer such as an elastomeric fluoropolymer and at least 1 weight % of a fluoro-functionalized near-infrared radiation absorber. This composition can be formed into laser-engraveable layers for various elements that can be laser-engraved to provide relief images. The resulting laser-engraved elements can take various forms including flexographic printing members, and can be used to apply various inks to receiver materials in an imagewise fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Anna C. Greene, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Steven Evans
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Publication number: 20130288006Abstract: A composition comprises a fluoropolymer such as an elastomeric fluoropolymer and at least 1 weight % of a fluoro-functionalized near-infrared radiation absorber. This composition can be formed into laser-engraveable layers for various elements that can be laser-engraved to provide relief images. The resulting laser-engraved elements can take various forms including flexographic printing members, and can be used to apply various inks to receiver materials in an imagewise fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Anna C. Greene, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Steven Evans
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Patent number: 8501388Abstract: A method is used to make a laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving that has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. The relief-forming layer can be prepared by applying multiple formulations. Each formulation comprises a coating solvent, a laser-ablatable polymeric binder, and an infrared radiation absorbing compound. The infrared radiation absorbing compound concentration in the resulting sub-layers is different in each adjacent pair of sub-layers so that the concentration is always greater in each pair sub-layer that is closer to the substrate, and the concentration is progressively greater in the sub-layers as they are closer to the substrate after the coating solvent is removed, wherein the multiple sub-layers provide a relief-forming layer so that the sub-layer farthest from the substrate provides a relief-image forming surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Mitchell S. Burberry, Dennis R. Perchak, Kam C. Ng, Lee W. Tutt, Lawrence A. Rowley, Linda M. Franklin
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Patent number: 8408130Abstract: An imaging method provides a flexographic printing member used to transfer ink from an image area to a receiver element. This flexographic printing member has a relief image including an image area that is composed of an elastomeric composition that has an elastomeric topmost surface and a relief image floor. The relief image has a plurality of dots within a sub-area of the elastomeric topmost surface wherein each dot has a minimum receiver element contact area. A fraction less than 1 of the plurality of dots, known as (b) dots, have a topmost surface that is undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface. The (b) dots are undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface in a predetermined number and arrangement so that the (b) dots are still able to transfer ink to the receiver element. Each of the remainder of the plurality of dots in the sub-area, known as (a) dots, has a topmost surface that is essentially coincident with the elastomeric topmost surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mitchell S. Burberry, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 8313887Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is from about 300 to about 4,000 ?m thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The laser-ablatable material also comprises at least 0.01 weight % of a depolymerization catalyst that is a Lewis acid or organometallic based catalyst. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20120240802Abstract: A laser-engravable flexographic printing precursor or other patternable material can be laser-engraved to provide a relief image. The relief image is formed in an elastomeric, relief-forming, laser-engravable layer comprising a thermoplastic elastomeric nanocrystalline polyolefin that is melt processable. The laser-engraveable composition can be readily recycled and reformed into another flexographic printing plate precursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Linda M. Franklin
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Publication number: 20120160120Abstract: Relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is from about 300 to about 4,000 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The laser-ablatable material can also comprise at least 0.01 weight % of a depolymerization catalyst that is a Lewis acid or organometallic based catalyst. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 8187793Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is at least 20 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 8187794Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is at least 20 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 8163465Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is from about 300 to about 4,000 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The laser-ablatable material also comprises at least 0.01 weight % of a depolymerization catalyst that is a Lewis acid or organometallic based catalyst. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20120094104Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is from about 300 to about 4,000 ?m thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The laser-ablatable material also comprises at least 0.01 weight % of a depolymerization catalyst that is a Lewis acid or organometallic based catalyst. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20120094018Abstract: A method is used to make a laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving that has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. The relief-forming layer can be prepared by applying multiple formulations. Each formulation comprises a coating solvent, a laser-ablatable polymeric binder, and an infrared radiation absorbing compound. The infrared radiation absorbing compound concentration in the resulting sub-layers is different in each adjacent pair of sub-layers so that the concentration is always greater in each pair sub-layer that is closer to the substrate, and the concentration is progressively greater in the sub-layers as they are closer to the substrate after the coating solvent is removed, wherein the multiple sub-layers provide a relief-forming layer so that the sub-layer farthest from the substrate provides a relief-image forming surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Mitchell S. Burberry, Dennis R. Perchak, Kam C. Ng, Lee W. Tutt, Lawrence A. Rowley, Linda M. Franklin
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Publication number: 20120048135Abstract: An imaging method provides a flexographic printing member used to transfer ink from an image area to a receiver element. This flexographic printing member has a relief image including an image area that is composed of an elastomeric composition that has an elastomeric topmost surface and a relief image floor. The relief image has a plurality of dots within a sub-area of the elastomeric topmost surface wherein each dot has a minimum receiver element contact area. A fraction less than 1 of the plurality of dots, known as (b) dots, have a topmost surface that is undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface. The (b) dots are undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface in a predetermined number and arrangement so that the (b) dots are still able to transfer ink to the receiver element. Each of the remainder of the plurality of dots in the sub-area, known as (a) dots, has a topmost surface that is essentially coincident with the elastomeric topmost surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Inventors: Mitchell S. Burberry, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20120048133Abstract: The present invention provides a flexographic printing member used to transfer ink from an image area to a receiver element. This flexographic printing member has a relief image including an image area that is composed of an elastomeric composition that has an elastomeric topmost surface and a relief image floor. The relief image has a plurality of dots within a sub-area of the elastomeric topmost surface wherein each dot has a minimum receiver element contact area. A fraction less than 1 of the plurality of dots, known as (b) dots, have a topmost surface that is undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface. The (b) dots are undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface in a predetermined number and arrangement so that the (b) dots are still able to transfer ink to the receiver element. Each of the remainder of the plurality of dots in the sub-area, known as (a) dots, has a topmost surface that is essentially coincident with the elastomeric topmost surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Inventors: Mitchell S. Burberry, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 8114572Abstract: A laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. This relief-forming layer includes a laser-ablatable polymeric binder and an infrared radiation absorbing compound that is present at a concentration profile such that its concentration is greater near the bottom surface than the image-forming surface. This arrangement of the infrared radiation absorbing compound provides improved ablation efficiency, particularly when laser exposure is carried out adiabatically.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Mitchell S. Burberry, Dennis R. Perchak, Kam C. Ng, Lee W. Tutt, Lawrence A. Rowley, Linda M. Franklin
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Publication number: 20110089609Abstract: A laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. This relief-forming layer includes a laser-ablatable polymeric binder and an infrared radiation absorbing compound that is present at a concentration profile such that its concentration is greater near the bottom surface than the image-forming surface. This arrangement of the infrared radiation absorbing compound provides improved ablation efficiency, particularly when laser exposure is carried out adiabatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Mitchell S. Burberry, Dennis R. Perchak, Kam C. Ng, Lee W. Tutt, Lawrence A. Rowley, Linda M. Franklin