Patents by Inventor Mario Dennis DeLaura

Mario Dennis DeLaura 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: 5912109
    Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer consisting essentially of electrically-conductive fine particles, such as antimony-doped tin oxide particles and, as a binder, water-insoluble polymer particles. The use of water-insoluble polymer particles of an appropriate shear modulus as a binder in the electrically-conductive layer provides a layer with a high degree of conductivity at low concentrations of electrically-conductive fine particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Charles Chester Anderson, Yongcai Wang, Mario Dennis DeLaura
  • Patent number: 5905021
    Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer consisting essentially of electrically-conductive fine particles, such as antimony-doped tin oxide particles and, as a binder, water-insoluble polymer particles containing sulfonic acid groups. The use of water-insoluble polymer particles containing sulfonic acid groups as a binder in the electrically-conductive layer provides a layer with a high degree of conductivity at low concentrations of electrically-conductive fine particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Charles Chester Anderson, Yongcai Wang, Mario Dennis DeLaura
  • Patent number: 5698384
    Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer comprising electronically-conductive fine particles, such as antimony-doped tin oxide particles, and gelatin-coated water-insoluble polymer particles. The use of gelatin-coated water-insoluble polymer particles as a binder in the electrically-conductive layer facilitates the preparation of stable coating compositions and provides a layer with a high degree of conductivity at low concentrations of electronically-conductive fine particles and with excellent abrasion resistant properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Charles Chester Anderson, Yongcai Wang, James Lee Bello, Mario Dennis DeLaura
  • Patent number: 5695919
    Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic films and papers, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and at least one auxiliary layer containing solvent-dispersible polymer particles. The auxiliary layer having been formed from a coating solution comprising a continuous liquid organic medium having dispersed therein lubricant impregnated core/shell polymer particles, the polymer particles comprising a core portion which is insoluble in the organic medium and a shell portion which has an affinity for both the core portion and the organic medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Yongcai Wang, Charles Chester Anderson, James Lee Bello, Mario Dennis DeLaura