Patents by Inventor Ivan Hoogmartens
Ivan Hoogmartens 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: 6579671Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: AGFA-GevaertInventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
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Publication number: 20030064891Abstract: A monosheet black and white substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material comprising a thermosensitive element and a support, the thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a 1,2-dihydroxyphenyl-compound in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein said 1,2-dihydroxyphenyl-compound is represented by formula (I): R1SO2R2, wherein R1 is an optionally substituted aryl group and R2 is selected from the group consisting of a 3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl group, a 3-alkoxy-4,5-dihydroxyphenyl group and a 3-aryloxy-4,5-dihydroxyphenyl group; or said 1,2-dihydroxyphenyl-compound is represented by formula (II): R3COOR4, wherein R3 is a 3-alkoxy-4,5-dihydroxyphenyl group or a 3-aryloxy-4,5-dihydroxyphenyl group; and R4 is an alkyl group or an aryl group; and a thermographic recording process therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERTInventors: Johan Loccufier, Geert Defieuw, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Publication number: 20030054958Abstract: A monosheet black and white substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material comprising a thermosensitive element and a support, the thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a 3,4-dihydroxybenzene compound in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the 3,4-dihydroxybenzene compound is an aryloxo-3,4-dihydroxybenzene compound in which the aryl-group is substituted with at least one substituent having a &sgr;m-value greater than 0; or a heteroaryloxo-3,4-dihydroxybenzene compound in which the heteroaryl group has a unified aromaticity index IA greater than 53 and is optionally substituted with at least one group selected from the group consisting of aryl, hydroxy, carboxy, sulfo, sulfoalkyl, sulfoaryl, sulfonylalkyl, sulfonylaryl, annulated aryl, annulated heteroaryl, carboxyalkyl, carboxyaryl, oxoalkyl, oxoaryl, halogen, nitro, cyano and mercapto-alkyl groups; and a thermographic recording process therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2002Publication date: March 20, 2003Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERTInventors: Johan Loccufier, Geert Defieuw, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Publication number: 20020150849Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Applicant: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
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Publication number: 20020123426Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element exclusive of bisphenol compounds, 4-substituted isoxazole compounds of the formula 1Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2001Publication date: September 5, 2002Applicant: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Publication number: 20020111270Abstract: A monosheet black and white substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material comprising a thermosensitive element and a support, the thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the thermographic recording material comprises a reaction product of an amino-group containing polymer and a compound according to formula (I): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2001Publication date: August 15, 2002Applicant: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Carlo Uyttendaele, Rene De Keyzer, Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Publication number: 20020107146Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic recording material comprising a thermosensitive element and a support, the thermosensitive element containing at least one substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, an image tone stabilizer and a binder, wherein the image tone stabilizer is a compound according to formula (I): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Applicant: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 6383725Abstract: An emulsion comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, wherein the emulsion further comprises a polyhalide compound selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium polyhalides, quaternary phosphonium polyhalides and ternary sulphonium polyhalides, which satisfies a test specified in the description, or a product of a reaction between the polyhalide compound and a reducing species present in said emulsion; a process for producing a photothermographic recording material, capable of image formation without preliminary heating prior to exposure, comprising a photo-addressable thermally developable element incorporating the emulsion; and a photothermographic recording process utilizing the photothermographic recording material.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: AGFA-GevaertInventors: Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens, Hans Strijckers
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Publication number: 20020052294Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, the thermosensitive element containing silver behenate including phase I silver behenate having an X-ray diffraction spectrum upon irradiation with a copper K&agr;1 X-ray source with Bragg angles 2&THgr; of 4.53°, 5.96-6.05°, 7.46-7.56°, 8.90-9.12°, 10.45-10.66°, 12.02-12.12°, 13.53-13.62°, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the thermographic recording material is capable upon thermal development of containing 1% of phase II silver behenate, having an X-ray diffraction spectrum upon irradiation with a copper K&agr;1 X-ray source with Bragg angles 2&THgr; of 5.34-5.78°, 6.12-6.41°, 7.68-7.79°, 8.30-8.59°, 9.36-9.84°, 10.6-10.96°, and/or phase III silver behenate phase, having an X-ray diffraction spectrum upon irradiation with a copper K&agr;1 X-ray source with Bragg angles 2&THgr; of 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Ingrid Geuens, Ivan Hoogmartens, Geert Defieuw
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Patent number: 6325474Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for writing on thermographic material (5). The inventive device (1) comprises a heater (20) with which the thermographic material (5) is preheated to a temperature, which is lower than a writing temperature. The thermographic material (5) can be written on with a writing instrument (10) which is distanced from the thermographic material (5) after input of an information signal (s(t)). The writing instrument (10) has a plurality of individually controllable point sources (30-33; 51-53). The thermographic material (5) can be written on in a point-by-point manner with said point sources (30-33; 51-53).Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2000Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: AGFA Gevaert AGInventors: Wolfram Betzold, Leo Oelbrandt, Friedrich Stumpf, Thomas Zehetmaier, Ivan Hoogmartens, Luc Leenders, Hans Strijckers, Herbert Gebele, Franz Kappeler
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Patent number: 6310001Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material substantially exclusive of cationic surfactants in which at least one non-cationic surfactant is present, the thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein all the non-cationic surfactants present in the thermographic recording material together have a non-fluoro-halide ion concentration of 1500 ppm or less; and a process for the production thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1998Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Carlo Uyttendaele, Jan Gilleir, Ingrid Geuens, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 6306572Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic material including a support and a thermosensitive element, containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the binder is a water-dispersible film-forming polymer with covalently bonded moieties with one or more acid groups or anhydrides thereof and the thermographic material is thermally developable under substantially water-free conditions; and a process for producing the substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic material comprising the steps of: producing an aqueous dispersion of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt; producing one or more aqueous coating compositions containing together the aqueous dispersion of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, the reducing agent and the binder; and applying the one or more aqueous coating compositions to the support thereby forming after dryType: GrantFiled: August 17, 1998Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Carlo Uyttendaele, Huub Van Aert, Frank Louwet, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Publication number: 20010028996Abstract: An emulsion comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, wherein the emulsion further comprises a polyhalide compound selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium polyhalides, quaternary phosphonium polyhalides and ternary sulphonium polyhalides, which satisfies a test specified in the description, or a product of a reaction between the polyhalide compound and a reducing species present in said emulsion; a process for producing a photothermographic recording material, capable of image formation without preliminary heating prior to exposure, comprising a photo-addressable thermally developable element incorporating the emulsion; and a photothermographic recording process utilizing the photothermographic recording material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2000Publication date: October 11, 2001Applicant: Agfa GevaertInventors: Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens, Hans Strijckers
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Patent number: 6300052Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the binder is a water-dispersible film-forming polymer having covalently bonded ionic groups and the thermographic material is thermally developable under substantially water-free conditions; and a process for producing the substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic material comprising the steps of: producing an aqueous dispersion of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt; producing one or more aqueous coating compositions containing together the aqueous dispersion of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, the reducing agent and the binder; and applying the one or more aqueous coating compositions to the support, thereby forming after drying the thermosensitive element.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1998Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Frank Louwet, Huub Van Aert, Frank Ruttens, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 6296999Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic material comprising a polymeric or polymer-coated support, a subbing layer on the support and on the same side of the support as the subbing layer a thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the subbing layer contains a binder, less than 20% by weight of silica and covalently bonded acid groups in the binder, if present, are either substantially present as free acid or substantially present as acid salts and has a leachable non-fluoro-halide ion content into water at room temperature over a period of 120 minutes of less than 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1998Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Carlo Uyttendaele, Ingrid Geuens, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 6284442Abstract: A black and white monosheet thermographic recording material having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650 nm and 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 and a binder, wherein the substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorption at a wavelength between 450 nm and 700 nm, none of the at least two colorants is an antihalation dye, and at least one of the at least two colorants is incorporated in the support; and photothermographic and thermographic recording processes therewith.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1999Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Guy Michel Van Ackere, Geert Defieuw, Ivan Hoogmartens, Johan August Loccufier
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Patent number: 6187516Abstract: An emulsion comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, wherein the emulsion further comprises a polyhalide compound selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium polyhalides, quaternary phosphonium polyhalides and ternary sulphonium polyhalides, which satisfies a test specified in the description, or a product of a reaction between the polyhalide compound and a reducing species present in said emulsion; a process for producing a photothermographic recording material, capable of image formation without preliminary heating prior to exposure, comprising a photo-addressable thermally developable element incorporating the emulsion; and a photothermographic recording process utilizing the photothermographic recording material.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1997Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens, Hans Strijckers
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Patent number: 6180165Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material substantially exclusive of cationic surfactants in which at least one non-cationic surfactant is present, the thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein all the non-cationic surfactants present in the thermographic recording material together have a non-fluoro-halide ion concentration of 1500 ppm or less; and a process for the production thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Carlo Uyttendaele, Jan Gilleir, Ingrid Geuens, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 6159667Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 1999Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Andre Bellens, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 6130033Abstract: A (photo)thermographic recording material comprising a (photo-addressable) thermosensitive element on one side of a water resistant support and an outermost backside layer on the other side of the water resistant support, the (photo-addressable) thermosensitive element comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent for the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt in thermal working relationship therewith(, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light insensitive organic silver salt) and a binder and the outermost backside layer comprising polymeric beads, characterized in that an outermost layer on the side of the water resistant support with the (photo-addressable) thermosensitive element does not contain a fluorine-containing polymeric surfactant and the static frictional coefficient between the outermost layer on the side of the water resistant support with the (photo-addressable) thermosensitive element and the oType: GrantFiled: November 10, 1998Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Geert Defieuw, Wim Mues, Dirk Quintens, Ivan Hoogmartens