Patents by Inventor Sabine Emmers
Sabine Emmers 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: 6607872Abstract: A photothermographic recording material comprising a photo-addressable thermally developable element coatable from aqueous media comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a reducing agent in thermal working relationship with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, characterized in that the binder comprises a water-soluble polymer, a water-dispersible polymer or a mixture of a water-soluble polymer and a water-dispersible polymer and particles of the photosensitive silver halide are non-aggregating in the photo-addressable thermally developable element and are uniformly distributed over and between particles of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, at least 80% by number of the particles having a diameter, determined by transmission electron microscopy, of ≦40 nm; and a recording process therefor.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Herman Uytterhoeven, Yvan Gilliams, Johan Loccufier, Sabine Emmers, Ronny De Clercq
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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: 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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Patent number: 6300044Abstract: A production method for a photothermographic recording material comprising the steps of: (i) providing a support; (ii) coating the support with a photo-addressable thermally developable element comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent in thermal working relationship with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, characterized in that the photosensitive silver halide is formed by reacting an aqueous emulsion of particles of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt with at least one onium salt with halide or polyhalide anion(s) and that the photo-addressable thermally developable element is coated from an aqueous dispersion medium; and a recording process therefor.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Herman Uytterhoeven, Yvan Gilliams, Johan Loccufier, Sabine Emmers, Ronny De Clercq
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Patent number: 6280923Abstract: A photothermographic recording material comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element comprising photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with a substantially light-insensitive silver salt of an organic carboxylic acid, an organic reducing agent for the substantially light-insensitive silver salt of an organic carboxylic acid in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, characterized in that the binder is water soluble or water dispersible and the reducing agent is a non-sulfo-substituted 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring compound with at least three substituents one of which is a hydroxy group at a first carbon atom and a second of which is a hydroxy or amino-group substituted on a second carbon atom one, three or five ring atoms removed in a system of conjugated double bonds from the first carbon atom in the compound, in which (i) the third substituent may be part of an annelated carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring system; (ii) the third substituentType: GrantFiled: January 20, 1998Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Herman Uytterhoeven, Yvan Gilliams, Johan Loccufier, Sabine Emmers
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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: 6096486Abstract: 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: December 10, 1997Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Andre Bellens, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens
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Patent number: 5998087Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed containing a new type of hydrazide compounds represented by following general formula I, the different symbols of which are defined in the description. ##STR1## In a preferred embodiment Q is chosen from pyridinium, quinolinium or isoquinolinium. In a most preferred embodiment Q is a pyridinium substituted on the N.sup.+ with a C.sub.5 to C.sub.8 alkyl group.The photographic material is preferably a graphic arts recording material. High gradation and excellent hard dot quality are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1999Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Stefaan Lingier, Sabine Emmers, Jean-Marie Dewanckele, Pierre De Clercq, Noel Hosten, Dirk Van Haver
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Patent number: 5989774Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed containing a new type of hydrazide compound represented by following general formula I, the different symbols of which are defined in the description. ##STR1## In a preferred embodiment Q is pyridinium, substituted with a propargyllic group or butynyl group.The photographic material is preferably a graphic arts recording material. High gradation and excellent hard dot quality are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Stefaan Lingier, Paul Callant, Sabine Emmers