Patents by Inventor Dale E. Hamilton

Dale E. Hamilton 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: 8940362
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing porous core-shell polymer particles having a nonporous shell including: providing a first organic solvent containing a dissolved polymer; dispersing the organic solvent in an aqueous phase containing a stabilizer to form an emulsion; adding the emulsion to a second organic solvent wherein the second organic solvent is miscible with water and the first organic solvent, and a non-solvent for the polymer; and evaporating the first and second organic solvents from the emulsion to form core-shell polymer particles. The method results in core-shell polymer particles comprising a common binder polymer for the core and the shell wherein the core has a porosity and the shell is non-porous. The particles have a porosity from 10 to 70 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dennis J. Massa, Mridula Nair, Tamara K. Jones, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8652637
    Abstract: The present invention is core-shell polymer particles comprising a common binder polymer for the core and the shell wherein the core has a porosity and the shell is non-porous The particles have a porosity from 10 to 70 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dennis J. Massa, Mridula Nair, Tamara K. Jones, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20090098382
    Abstract: The present invention is core-shell polymer particles comprising a common binder polymer for the core and the shell wherein the core has a porosity and the shell is non-porous The particles have a porosity from 10 to 70 percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Dennis J. Massa, Mridula Nair, Tamara K. Jones, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20090098288
    Abstract: The present invention is core-shell polymer particles comprising a common binder polymer for the core and the shell wherein the core has a porosity and the shell is non-porous The particles have a porosity from 10 to 70 percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Dennis J. Massa, Mridula Nair, Tamara K. Jones, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 6815127
    Abstract: A method of electronic processing of an imagewise exposed dispersed particle photoconductive material imaging element employing pulsed radiation and radio frequency photoconductivity apparatus having a sample capacitor with a gap is described, comprising the steps of: a) placing the imagewise exposed photoconductive material imaging element in an electromagnetic field adjacent the sample capacitor; b) scanning the element through the gap in the sample capacitor with a pulsed, focused beam of radiation; c) directly measuring the photoelectron response of the element and recording the resulting signals from the radio frequency photoconductivity apparatus; and d) advancing the element past the capacitor and repeating steps b) and c); wherein the photoconductive material imaging element comprises photoconductive particles which contain deep electron trapping agents which in an unfilled state effectively decrease the photoconductivity of the photoconductor particles, and wherein imagewise exposure of the photocond
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lillian M. Kellogg, Joe E. Maskasky, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 6753121
    Abstract: A photoconductive material imaging element is described comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion imaging layer comprising silver halide grains which have not been chemically sensitized to optimize formation of latent image Agno, centers upon imagewise exposure and which are doped with at least 500 deep electron trapping agent dopant centers per grain. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the photoconductive material imaging element includes a planar support and the non-chemically sensitized, deep electron trapping agent doped silver halide grains comprise tabular grains, preferably with an average grain size equivalent circular diameter of greater than 2 &mgr;m, with the long dimensions of the tabular grains primarily oriented parallel to the plane of the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lillian M. Kellogg, Joe E. Maskasky, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20040096763
    Abstract: A photoconductive material imaging element is described comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion imaging layer comprising silver halide grains which have not been chemically sensitized to optimize formation of latent image Agn0 centers upon imagewise exposure and which are doped with at least 500 deep electron trapping agent dopant centers per grain. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the photoconductive material imaging element includes a planar support and the non-chemically sensitized, deep electron trapping agent doped silver halide grains comprise tabular grains, preferably with an average grain size equivalent circular diameter of greater than 2 &mgr;m, with the long dimensions of the tabular grains primarily oriented parallel to the plane of the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lillian M. Kellogg, Joe E. Maskasky, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20040095616
    Abstract: A method of electronic processing of an imagewise exposed dispersed particle photoconductive material imaging element employing pulsed radiation and radio frequency photoconductivity apparatus having a sample capacitor with a gap is described, comprising the steps of: a) placing the imagewise exposed photoconductive material imaging element in an electromagnetic field adjacent the sample capacitor; b) scanning the element through the gap in the sample capacitor with a pulsed, focused beam of radiation; c) directly measuring the photoelectron response of the element and recording the resulting signals from the radio frequency photoconductivity apparatus; and d) advancing the element past the capacitor and repeating steps b) and c); wherein the photoconductive material imaging element comprises photoconductive particles which contain deep electron trapping agents which in an unfilled state effectively decrease the photoconductivity of the photoconductor particles, and wherein imagewise exposure of the photocond
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lillian M. Kellogg, Joe E. Maskasky, Dale E. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 5246827
    Abstract: A photosensitive silver halide emulsion is prepared by providing an emulsion containing an anionic acid-substituted and a neutral organic ripening agent and then growing silver halide grains in the emulsion. This combination of organic ripening agents of differing charge types produces a superadditive effect on the growth of silver halide crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Arthur H. Herz, Roger L. Klaus, Dale E. Hamilton