Having Specified Trap Patents (Class 430/209)
  • Patent number: 9467540
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and discloses a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device comprises a display screen, a back cover, and internal communication parts provided in a chamber defined by the display screen and the back cover. A rotating member is provided on an upper side of the back cover, and the rotating member is rotatable around the back cover, and a telephone receiver and a camera are arranged on the rotating member. In the mobile communication device according to the present disclosure, no telephone receiver and camera are required to be arranged on the front surface thereof, which is capable of saving a front frame and space for installing the telephone receiver and the camera on the front frame of the mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE DISPLAY LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qinggang Feng
  • Patent number: 7108950
    Abstract: Corner mask portions are provided at four corners of an exposure opening. The corner mask portions are formed by rounding the corners into curves. The quantity of developing solution contained in a developing solution pod is reduced, consequently, it is possible to reduce the thickness of a solution pod section and a trap section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Asakura
  • Patent number: 6922979
    Abstract: After first, second, and third continuous members are bonded to each other in a laminated state, they are cut together to a predetermined length for thereby producing an instant photography film unit. A predetermined number of produced instant photography film units are stacked in a stacking station, and then automatically placed into a film pack in a packaging station. An overall process of manufacturing instant photography film units that are packaged is performed automatically and efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Hideaki Kataoka, Hiroaki Tanaka, Tatsuo Shiino, Takayuki Kambara, Hisashi Kikuchi, Toru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6576390
    Abstract: An instant photographic film unit includes a mask sheet having an image frame and two sheets, one of which has a photosensitive layer, laminated and bonded together, and a developing liquid container disposed in a predetermined position for supplying a developing liquid between the two sheets to produce an image. The mask sheet and the two sheets are bonded together in a predetermined laminated state, with at least one of the mask sheet and the two sheets being in the form of a continuous web. The continuous web is cut off into self-developed instant photographic film units of a predetermined length. A predetermined number of instant photographic film units are automatically stacked and placed in a film pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Hiroaki Tanaka, Tatsuo Shiina, Takayuki Kambara, Hisashi Kikuchi, Toru Shimizu, Hiroaki Shinohara
  • Patent number: 6517989
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved film assemblage of the self developing type that allows separation of both the pod and trap portions of the film frame, but sealing of the ends of the separated film portions including pod, trap, and image area. The present invention also provides such a film assemblage of the foregoing type whereby further ensuring uniform flow of the processing fluid during the spreading process. A method of manufacturing said film is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Meschter, Harry R. Parsons
  • Publication number: 20020177063
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved film assemblage of the self-developing type that allows separation of both the pod and trap portions of the film frame, but sealing of the ends of the separated film portions including pod, trap, and image area. The present invention also provides such a film assemblage of the foregoing type whereby further ensuring uniform flow of the processing fluid during the spreading process. A method of manufacturing said film is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: John E. Meschter, Harry R. Parsons
  • Publication number: 20010053494
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved film assemblage of the self-developing type that allows separation of both the pod and trap portions of the film frame, but sealing of the ends of the separated film portions including pod, trap, and image area. The present invention also provides such a film assemblage of the foregoing type whereby further ensuring uniform flow of the processing fluid during the spreading process. A method of manufacturing said film is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: John E. Meschter, Harry R. Parsons
  • Patent number: 6291128
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to several embodiments in which different self-developing film formats are constructed in order to permit easy operator separation of the pod and trap from adjacent integral film units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Meschter, Richard P. Breen, Jr., Philip R. Norris
  • Patent number: 6287744
    Abstract: After first, second, and third continuous members are bonded to each other in a laminated state, they are cut together to a predetermined length for thereby producing an instant photography film unit. A predetermined number of produced instant photography film units are stacked in a stacking station, and then automatically placed into a film pack in a packaging station. An overall process of manufacturing instant photography film units that are packaged is performed automatically and efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Hideaki Kataoka, Hiroaki Tanaka, Tatsuo Shiino, Takayuki Kambara, Hisashi Kikuchi, Toru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6221554
    Abstract: There is described a self-developing film unit which has a photosensitive member and an image-receiving member and wherein one outermost surface of the film unit comprises a support layer carrying a layer of a releasable material and a layer of an adhesive material. After an image is formed in the film unit by photoexposure of the photosensitive element and photographic processing of the exposed photosensitive element, the support and releasable material layer can be removed and the film unit or the image-receiving element, as the case may be, adhered to a surface for viewing of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Philip R. Norris, Harry R. Parsons, William T. Plummer, Donald W. Preissler, Robert J. Wadja
  • Patent number: 5981137
    Abstract: An improved self-developing film unit comprising: a processing fluid supply including a rupturable reservoir of processing fluid; an image recording assembly of the self-developing type including first and second overlying layers one of which is exposable to form a latent photographic image, and a spacer connected to and between the first and second layers for providing a processing space therebetween for allowing processing fluid to pass therethrough; a fluid trap at a trailing end portion of the film unit for collecting excess processing fluid traveling through the processing space; a first fluid-tight coupling device including a fluid passage for fluidically coupling the reservoir to a leading end of the processing space for allowing processing fluid from a ruptured reservoir to be introduced into the processing space and initiate processing of the latent image; and, second fluid-tight coupling device including a fluid passage for fluidically coupling a trailing end of the processing space with the trap fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Meschter, Philip R. Norris, Harry R. Parsons
  • Patent number: 5888693
    Abstract: An improved self-developing film unit comprising: processing fluid supply means including a rupturable reservoir of processing fluid at a leading end portion of the unit; image recording means of the self-developing type including first and second overlying layers one of which is exposable to form a latent photographic image, and spacer means connected to and between said first and second layers for providing a processing space therebetween for allowing processing fluid to pass therethrough; fluid trap means at a trailing end portion of the film unit for collecting excess processing fluid traveling through said processing space; first fluid-tight coupling means including a fluid passage for fluidically coupling said reservoir to a leading end of said processing space for allowing processing fluid from a ruptured reservoir to be introduced into said processing space and initiate processing of the latent image; and, second fluid-tight coupling means including a fluid passage for fluidically coupling a trailing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Meschter, Philip R. Norris, Harry R. Parsons
  • Patent number: 5116714
    Abstract: An image forming material is provided in which a developer container containing a developer consisting of an electrically insulating organic material which is solid at ambient temperature and which may be liquefied on heating, and wherein colorant particles are dispersed in the material, is made as one with a photosensitive base on which to form an electrostatic latent image. With such image forming material, the developer required in the developing process is incorporated in the photosensitive base to permit image formation and storage by the electrophotographic process to be performed as easily as in so-called instant photography. When the outer size of the image forming material or that of the separated photosensitive base is of the 35 mm format slide size, the imaging material or the base may be attached directly to a slide projector or the like to permit the image information to be easily seen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Akio Yasuda, Koichi Kawasumi, Takao Tsuchiya, Kiyosuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5026630
    Abstract: A self-processing photographic film unit has a trap member using a nonwoven cloth in order to catch surplus processing solution. This nonwoven cloth is provided with a polymer having carboxyl groups, and a hardening agent for hardening the polymer in order to prevent leakage and change of color to a frame portion of an image forming plane. A nonwoven cloth according to another embodiment includes a fiber of duplex structure which comprises an external layer of a hydrophilic cross linkage polymer and an internal layer of an acrylonitrile type polymer. A further embodiment includes a nonwoven cloth having dimensions of individual gaps or density which are changed stepwise or continuously. This nonwoven cloth is stored in the trap section so that a portion having a small density or large individual gaps is disposed on the inlet side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Mizuno, Kenji Sashihara
  • Patent number: 5023163
    Abstract: A monosheet type self-processing film unit comprising a masking member formed with an image area defining opening, a photosensitive sheet, a developer containing pod, a trapping member, a transparent cover sheet, and a spacer member interposed between the photosensitive and transparent cover sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Simizu, Hideaki Kataoka
  • Patent number: 4985335
    Abstract: A self-processing film unit wherein a cover sheet is formed with a first portion and a second portion extending from an opening defining an image forming area toward a trapping member, the first portion is longer than the second portion, and the first portion bounds an air venting passage. The first portion ensures that the distance that surplus processing solution must travel to reach the air venting passage will be long. Therefore, the surplus processing solution flowing around the first portion is less than the surplus processing solution flowing around the second portion. The leading portion of the surplus processing solution flowing around the first portion is thus pooled at a position far from the exit of the air venting passage. If an adhesive layer is disposed between the first portion and the trapping member, the air venting passage is circuitous and therefore prevention of leadkage is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Omote, Hideaki Kataoka
  • Patent number: 4893144
    Abstract: A rapid access processing method for processing and delivering successive image frames on a continuous carrier web in a manner so that processing liquid spread over the area of each image frame on the carrier web is confined essentially to the image frame to leave areas of the carrier web uncovered by the image frame free of processing liquid. The carrier web also supports a pod of processing liquid along a leading edge of each image frame as well as a trap along a trailing edge of each image frame. The spent pods and wet traps are transferred from the carrier web, after processing, to an image bearing web from which image media was transferred to the image frames during processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Duncan C. Sorli
  • Patent number: 4824761
    Abstract: A self-developing integral film assemblage or unit adapted to be advanced between a pair of liquid spreading members in a camera to distribute a processing composition between a first positive or image-receiving sheet and a second negative or image-recording sheet. The composition is supplied from a pod which is located at a leading end of the film unit and excess thereof is absorbed by a trap at a trailing end of the unit. The first and second sheets are properly spaced by an intermediate masking sheet of uniform thickness which has an image-defining aperture therein. This mask assures that a uniform thickness of the processing composition is spread between the first and second sheets. The mask may also include a cutout adjacent to and outside of the image area defined by the aperture so as to enable an underlying portion of the second sheet to be photographically exposed to indicia relating to the exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: John I. Sturgis, George D. Whiteside
  • Patent number: 4716092
    Abstract: A transparency film assemblage having a film frame of the instant or self-developing type and a roller assembly specifically adapted for use with the assemblage during the spreading of a processing liquid between an emulsion side of the film frame and a strip sheet. The film assemblage includes a sheet of material having a tab at one end which when pulled, subsequent to the spreading of the processing liquid between the film frame's emulsion side and a strip sheet, removes the strip sheet from covering relation with the film frame while simultaneously covering the film frame's emulsion layer which is now attached to the strip sheet. The roller assembly includes a pair of rollers which are configured to provide a sequence of gaps having varying predetermined thicknesses during the movement of a film assemblage therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Paul B. Mason
  • Patent number: 4701388
    Abstract: A peel-apart instant film unit including two separate sheets comprising a photosensitive sheet and an image-receiving sheet, has a coloring member provided on one end of the photosensitive sheet so as to contact a developer reagent spread between the two sheets for processing. The coloring member is adapted to change in color upon the completion of the processing of the film unit as a result of the chemical reaction of the coloring member brought into contact with the developer reagent. The color change of the coloring member, which is observed from the outside of the film unit, indicates the completion of the processing of the film unit. The coloring member includes a time delay substance that initially separates the reagent spread between the sheets, from the substance that changes color. That time delay substance is permeable by the reagent at a rate such that the reagent reaches that substance and causes the color change only upon the completion of the development of the film unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Yoshio Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 4598041
    Abstract: A self-processing photographic film unit includes a first sheet for recording a positive image, a transparent second sheet bonded to the first sheet in face-to-face relation, a container for a processing liquid coupled to the leading end of the film unit, and a trap coupled to the trailing end of the film unit. Following exposure of the film unit, the processing liquid is distributed uniformly between the sheets, and any excess of the processing liquid from an image-recording area of the first sheet is received in the trap. The trap comprises a bag-like trap cover having a plurality of air orifices and a trap member capable of swelling and solubilizing when in contact with the processing liquid, which is surrounded the trap cover. The trap member is made of a fibrous carboxymethylcellulose sheet or a fibrous carboxymethylcellulose sheet and filter paper bonded to each other by sandwiching a liquid impervious member therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Hara, Yoshiaki Ishino
  • Patent number: 4556631
    Abstract: In a self-processing type film unit comprising a base sheet bearing thereon a photosensitive layer, a masking member which is attached to the base sheet and has an opening for exposing the photosensitive layer on the base sheet, a transparent cover sheet attached to the masking member at its side edges to cover the opening of the masking member with a spacer member interposed between each of the side edges and the masking member, a developing solution container enclosed by the leading end portion of the masking member which is folded back around the developing solution container over the cover sheet and attached to the cover sheet, and a developing solution trapping member enclosed by the trailing end portion of the masking member which is folded back around the developing solution trapping member over the cover sheet and attached to the cover sheet, a space formed between trailing end faces of the cover sheet and the spacer member, and the inner surface of the folded trailing end portion of the masking membe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Sato, Yoshio Hara
  • Patent number: 4545663
    Abstract: An integral, self-developing film unit and processor in which all structural components of the film unit apart from a rupturable pod of processing fluid are provided by two superposed rectangular sheets of plastic material. The sheets sandwich one or more layers of photochemical composition, support the processing fluid pod at the leading edge thereof and define at the trailing edge of the unit, a trap for receiving residual processing fluid. The trap is provided by a flap at the end of one of the two sheets folded over the trailing edge of the other sheet. The absence of edge rails to establish the thickness of processing fluid spread into contact with the photochemicals between the sheets is accounted for by a controlled spacing gap at the pressure nip through which the unit is advanced for processing after exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence M. Douglas
  • Patent number: 4356248
    Abstract: A photographic film unit of the type comprising two sheets between which a fluid composition is adapted to be spread during processing of a latent image, comprising a fluid trap and gas vent structure for releasing gases expelled from the film unit during the spreading of the processing composition and for receiving excess quantities of the fluid composition, in which a plurality of flow passages are provided in the path of the escaping gas and the advancing fluid composition, and in which a portion of the trap structure comprises a flexible diaphragm forming an expansible chamber having a low impedance to fluid flow relative to the resistance to flow of a plurality of gas vent passages that are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas P. McCole
  • Patent number: 4352879
    Abstract: A self-processing type photographic film unit having an improved trap structure for collecting surplus processing solution used in developing the unit. The trap structure includes a partition member dividing a pouch-shaped hollow interior formed by a trap cover member into upper and lower chambers and forming a U-shaped flow path which communicates with gas discharging through-holes formed in the upper surface of the trap cover member. First and second spacer members are provided on the lower and upper surfaces of the partition member with the first and second spacer members permitting the U-shaped flow path to pass gas in the unit while catching surplus processing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Hara
  • Patent number: 4279988
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a photographic film unit suitable for exposure and self-processing includes a substantially rigid mount having a central opening therethrough. A premounted film element is supported in the opening recessed between the mount's front and rear surfaces. A strippable cover sheet extends across the front of the film element to form a space for spreading processing liquid. A film support plug is received in the central opening rearwardly of the film element to inhibit the processing liquid from causing the film element to bow away from the cover sheet when the processing liquid is spread. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the film unit further includes a stripping sheet having a mask portion between the film element and the cover sheet, a backing sheet on the rear surface of the mount overlying the central opening, and a hinge portion interconnecting the mask portion and the backing sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: William P. Ewald
  • Patent number: 4273852
    Abstract: An instant film unit, including first and second superposed sheets, and conventional internal spacers for controlling the depth of a layer of processing fluid distributed by flowing the fluid between the sheets, is provided with additional internal spacers that reduce the resistance to fluid flow and augment the quantity of fluid supplied to the lateral edges of the imaging area. In the disclosure, the first spacers comprise portions of a mask, which frames the imaging area. The additional spacers are side rails which separate the lateral edges of the sheets by an amount greater than the thickness of the mask. The film unit is adapted for use with a processing device which includes a pressure nip long enough to span the imaging area, but the side rails are outside of the pressure nip adjacent the ends thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gerald A. Lange, Charles J. Simpson
  • Patent number: 4264718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic film unit with integral structure consisting of an image sheet and a cover sheet which is substantially in register with the image sheet and firmly attached to it, whereby the attachment between the sheets is produced by a combination of individual masking strips and lateral spacer strips and said combination of multi-part mask is composed of a masking folding sheet associated with the container for photographic developer material and another associated with the trap and a separate lateral masking strip for each side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Hermann Luhrig, Guido Kovacic, Walter Tabel, Horst-Peter Muller
  • Patent number: 4247626
    Abstract: In a photographic film unit having a pair of sheets connected in superposition with a photosensitive layer located between the sheets, a container carrying a quantity of fluent processing composition is arranged to provide for the discharge of the composition to between the sheets. A fluid receiver or trap is provided at the opposite edge of the sheets to receive and store excess processing composition after it has been spread between the sheets. The improvement comprises a trap construction wherein an intermediate sheet, which is disposed between the pair of sheets and is coupled to both of them, extends from between the pair of sheets at the trailing end thereof and is folded around one of the sheets at that end to form a trap cover over the trap volume between that folded portion and the outside surface of that one sheet. Spacing elements are formed by embossing the trailing end of that one sheet and fluid flow slits are formed by slitting the trailing edge of that sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gerald M. Poshkus, Dennis E. Whitney, James N. Cope, Robert J. Borel
  • Patent number: 4245035
    Abstract: A photo-identification card comprises a plastic laminate permanently encasing a photographically-exposable film chip that is developable by a single processing fluid. The laminate includes a core spacer having a compartment for receiving the chip with the spacer surrounding substantially the entire edge perimeter of the chip. Transparent cover panels, fused to the spacer by plastic-to-plastic bonds, physically protect the chip while permitting exposure and viewing through the laminate. Access ports are provided leading from the exterior of the laminate to the compartment for delivering the processing fluid to the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Gerald M. Poshkus
  • Patent number: 4242443
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic film unit with a picture sheet and a covering sheet which are joined together by means of an interposed mask, and a container for photographic developer material is located at the front end and a trap for collecting excess developer material is located at the rear end of the picture unit and whereby air guiding channels connect the trap compartment with the container compartment to conduct the surplus air or also developer past towards the empty developer container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Hermann Luhrig, Guido Kovacic, Horst-Peter Muller