Color Proofing Or Multicolor Image Formation Patents (Class 430/293)
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Patent number: 5587260Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a micro-patterned functional film with a high precision on a substrate comprising:(a) a step of forming a positive or negative-type photoresist film on the entire surface of a substrate having a conductive layer thereon;(b) an exposure step of irradiating light to the surface of the already formed positive or negative-type photoresist film through overlapped photo-masks having patterns that makes the film cover the substrate except for the predetermined part for forming a functional film in the next developing step;(c) a developing step of removing the photoresist film of the predetermined part for forming a functional film;(d) a step of forming a functional film on the substrate in the part where said photoresist film is removed, by electrodeposition with said conductive layer as one electrode; and(e) a step of removing the positive or negative-type photoresist film remaining after the step (c).Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1994Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Susumu Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Nakano, Nobuya Niizaki, Junichi Yasukawa, Miki Matsumura
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Patent number: 5587272Abstract: This invention makes available processes for preparing images, especially color proofs. A layer with imagewise tacky and nontacky areas is toned. Toner adhering to the tacky areas is transferred first onto a temporary support and from there onto an image receptor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Mario Grossa, Udo D. Bode, Manfred Sondergeld, Karl-Heinz Wiedenmann, Ronald J. Convers, Steven M. Kalo, Ashok K. Kudva
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Patent number: 5578412Abstract: A photosensitive element comprising, in order a support; a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive composition; and a layer comprising a thermally sensitive material; wherein the thermally sensitive material is (a) incompatible with the photosensitive composition, (b) non-tacky and non-blocking at room temperature, and (c) tackifiable at 70.degree. C. to 120.degree. C. and a process for using these elements is described. The photosensitive element may be in sheet or roll form.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1994Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: E. I. DuPont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Robert P. Held, Massimo Pizzocri, Harvey W. Taylor
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Patent number: 5565301Abstract: A process for forming a colored image comprising, in order:(A) imagewise exposing to actinic radiation a photosensitive element comprising a carrier support, a carrier surface, a first adhesive layer and a first photosensitive layer,(B) developing the exposed first photosensitive layer,(C) laminating to the element a transfer element comprising a transfer support, and a transfer surface layer which is adjacent to a colored pattern in the element of step (A) with the proviso that the transfer element does not have an adhesive layer which transfers to the colored pattern,(D) removing said carrier support and said carrier surface, revealing said first adhesive layer,(E) laminating the element the element from step (D) to a permanent support wherein the first adhesive layer is adjacent to the permanent support; and(F) removing said transfer support and said transfer surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1993Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Gregory A. Bodager
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Patent number: 5563023Abstract: A photoimageable element comprising: a substrate; a layer of a photosensitive composition comprising a photosensitive material coated on the substrate; and a protective overcoating comprising an oxygen barrier polymeric material and antiblocking particulate material wherein the oxygen barrier component has an oxygen permeability of no greater than about 10.sup.-14 cc(cm)/cm.sup.2 (sec)(Pa).Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1994Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.Inventors: Steven L. Kangas, Emil D. Sprute, Dean J. Stych
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Patent number: 5561011Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate having electrically conductive circuits on the surface of a transparent substrate, window-shaped coating films on the electrically conductive circuits and a frame-shaped, functional coating film at the regions not occupied with the window-shaped coating films, includes the steps of:(a) coating the surface of a transparent substrate with a photoresist composition to cover the circuits-carrying surface of the substrate, followed by forming a photoresist coating film,(b) superposing a photomask on the surface of the photoresist coating film formed through step (a) and exposing the thus masked photoresist coating film to light,(c) subjecting the substrate formed through steps (a) and (b) to development, and eliminating the photoresist coating film in the frame-shaped part,(d) subjecting the photoresist coating film left in step (c) to heat-treatment,(e) coating the substrate obtained through steps (a) to (d) in this order with a negative photoresist composition containing aType: GrantFiled: August 22, 1994Date of Patent: October 1, 1996Assignee: Shinto Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Nakano, Yoshikatsu Okada, Jun-ichi Yasukawa, Miki Matsumura, Kazuo Tsueda
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Patent number: 5545506Abstract: This invention relates to negative working color proofing sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to accurately predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process. The image is produced by forming a composite of a receiver sheet, an adhesive layer, a color layer and cover sheet. Upon imagewise exposure, a negative image appears on the receiver base after dry peel apart development.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1992Date of Patent: August 13, 1996Assignee: Hoechst Celanese CorporationInventors: Wojciech A. Wilczak, Stephan J. W. Platzer, David L. Siegfried
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Patent number: 5541035Abstract: A method of forming a multicolored image wherein image layers etc. formed on photosensitive transfer sheets are transferred in turn onto an image-receiving sheet and then, its image layer etc. are retransferred onto a permanent supporter. Both of a transferring image layer alone and a transferring image layer and adhesive layer are used properly for photosensitive transfer sheets. The finish quality comes close to original print and the runnability becomes better when making a color proof.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisahiro Omote, Satoshi Kuwabara, Masahide Takano
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Patent number: 5534380Abstract: A tonable, aqueous-processable, photosensitive element and process for forming a colored image from said element is described. The element comprises a support and a tonable, aqueous-processable photosensitive layer, said photosensitive layer consisting essentially of (a) an aqueous-processable, photoinsolubilizable photosensitive composition comprising a photosensitive material, and (b) a water-soluble plasticizer, wherein said photosensitive material is present in sufficient amount to insolubilize said photosensitive layer on exposure to actinic radiation, said photosensitive composition is present in sufficient amount to form a layer when said photosensitive layer is coated, and said plasticizer is present in sufficient amount to make said photosensitive layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1994Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Gregory A. Bodager, Bruce M. Monroe
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Patent number: 5534373Abstract: A photosensitive material comprising (A) a flexible transparent film support, (B) a colored photosensitive layer which contains an organic binder (B1) a dye or a colored pigment (B2), a compound (B3), which forms a strong acid on exposure to radiation, and a compound (B4) which has at least one group cleavable by the acid, and (C) an adhesion-promoting layer which contains a thermoplastic polymer which has a softening temperature in the range from 40.degree. to 200.degree. C., wherein the adhesion (a.sub.1) of the unexposed photosensitive layer (B) to the adhesion-promoting layer (C) is less than the adhesion (a.sub.3) of the unexposed photosensitive layer (B) to the film support (A) and than the cohesions of the layers (B) and (C), and the adhesion (a.sub.3 ') of the exposed photosensitive layer (B) to the film support (A) is less than the adhesion (a.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1995Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventors: Stephan J. W. Platzer, Andrea Buchmann, Gerhard Buhr
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Patent number: 5534384Abstract: A photosensitive material for the production of color proofing films for multicolor printing, having(A) a transparent, flexible film support of plastic,(B) a photopolymerizable layer which contains(B1) a polymeric binder,(B2) a free-radically polymerizable compound,(B3) a compound which is capable of initiating the polymerization of (B2) on exposure to actinic light, and(B4) a dye or a colored pigment in a primary color of multicolor printing, and(C) a thermoplastic adhesive layer having a layer weight of from about 2 to about 30 g/m.sup.2 on the photo-sensitive layer, wherein the thermoplastic adhesive layer contains from about 0.01 to about 0.5% by weight of a colorless pigment having a mean particle size which corresponds to from 1 to 100% of the layer thickness.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1993Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stephan J. W. Platzer, Siegfried Nuernberger, Karin Maerz
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Patent number: 5532115Abstract: A process for forming a colored image comprising, in order: (a) applying at least one aqueous permeable colorant-containing composition to a photosensitive element comprising a permanent carrier element having a carrier surface, and an unpigmented, first photosensitive layer consisting essentially of an aqueous liquid developable photosensitive composition, wherein the aqueous permeable colorant-containing composition is applied to the unpigmented, first photosensitive layer; (b) imagewise exposing to actinic radiation the photosensitive element having applied thereon the permeable colorant-containing composition to form imagewise exposed and unexposed regions in the unpigmented, first photosensitive layer and the overlying permeable colorant-containing composition; and (c) developing the exposed element by washing with an aqueous liquid, thereby removing either the imagewise exposed or imagewise unexposed regions, to produce a first colored pattern is described.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1994Date of Patent: July 2, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Gregory A. Bodager, Phillip L. Beighle
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Patent number: 5529883Abstract: A photosensitive material comprising (A) a flexible transparent film support, (B) a colored photosensitive layer which contains an organic binder (B1) a dye or a colored pigment (B2), a compound (B3), which forms a strong acid on exposure to radiation, and a compound (B4) which has at least one group cleavable by the acid, and (C) an adhesion-promoting layer which contains a thermoplastic polymer which has a softening temperature in the range from 40.degree. to 200.degree. C., wherein the adhesion (a.sub.1) of the unexposed photosensitive layer (B) to the adhesion-promoting layer (C) is less than the adhesion (a.sub.3) of the unexposed photosensitive layer (B) to the film support (A) and than the cohesions of the layers (B) and (C), and the adhesion (a.sub.3 ') of the exposed photosensitive layer (B) to the film support (A) is less than the adhesion (a.sub.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stephan J. W. Platzer, Andrea Buchmann, Gerhard Buhr
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Patent number: 5529879Abstract: This invention relates to a photosensitive sheet having on a substrate one or more resin layers that are peelable from the substrate and heat-fusible, and a colored photosensitive layer in this order, said substrate comprising a biaxially stretched plastic film and having a molecular orientation ratio in the range of from 1.0 to 1.4.The object of this invention is to solve the problem of misregister without decreasing productivity during the formation of plastic film (substrate) or during the production of a photosensitive sheet in a method in which said photosensitive sheet having an image formed thereon and an image receiving sheet for receiving the image are superimposed on each other, and pressed and heated for image transfer.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1993Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhide Hoshino, Fukuo Murata, Norio Yabe, Masahide Takano
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Patent number: 5527654Abstract: A process for the production of a color image is described, in which a photosensitive material that has a temporary support film, a colored photosensitive layer and an adhesion-promoting layer that can be activated by heat is laminated at high temperature and under pressure with an image-receiving material which carries, on a support, a pigment layer containing a white pigment. The photosensitive layer is exposed imagewise and developed to produce an image, the temporary support film is peeled off from the image-receiving material before or after exposure to light and, if required, these steps are repeated with at least one further photosensitive material whose colored layer has another color to produce a multi-colored image. The process gives color images having a smaller dot enlargement compared with a halftone original and is particularly suitable for the color testing of copy for multicolor printing.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1994Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Benzing, Dieter Mohr, Juergen Mertes, Peter Blum
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Patent number: 5525454Abstract: A photosensitive transfer material is disclosed including a temporary substrate having provided thereon an alkali-soluble thermoplastic resin layer, an intermediate layer, and a photosensitive resin layer in this order, the transfer material having an interlaminar adhesion which is lowest between the thermoplastic resin layer and the temporary substrate, wherein the alkali-soluble thermoplastic resin layer contains (A) an alkali-soluble thermoplastic resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 500,000 and a glass transition temperature of from 0.degree. to 140.degree. C. and (B) an alkali-soluble thermoplastic resin layer having a weight average molecular weight of from 3,000 to 30,000 and a glass transition temperature of from 30.degree. to 170.degree. C. at an (A)/(B) weight ratio of from 5/95 to 95/5. The transfer material can be transferred to a permanent substrate at a high speed without entrapping air bubbles due to unevenness on the permanent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1994Date of Patent: June 11, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadao Fujikura, Minoru Wada
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Patent number: 5489621Abstract: A light-shielding light-sensitive resin composition containing at least (1) an alkali soluble binder, (2) a photopolymerization initiator, (3) an addition-polymerizable monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and (4) at least two coloring agents, wherein the light-shielding light-sensitive resin composition is characterized in that said resin composition is equivalent or close to a black color in terms of hue and, when formed into a light-shielding light-sensitive resin layer having a layer thickness of 1 to 3 micrometers, has a transmittability in a visible ray region of 2 or less and a ratio of the transmittability in the visible region to the transmittability in the UV region of 1:1 to 20:1.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1994Date of Patent: February 6, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Morimasa Sato, Masayuki Iwasaki, Takekatsu Sugiyama
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Patent number: 5487801Abstract: The present invention relates to a pre-proof temperature controlling assembly associated with an off-press apparatus for laminating an image sheet to an image receiving substrate and, more particularly, for laminating a plurality of image sheets to the receiving substrate and then laminating a portion of the receiving substrate to a display sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1994Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Michael P. Marion, David C. Otto
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Patent number: 5478694Abstract: The invention relates to a photosensitive material for the production of color proofing films for multicolor printing comprising:A) a transparent, flexible film support,B) a photopolymerizable layer containing:B1) a polymeric binder,B2) a free radical-polymerizable compound,B3) a compound which is capable of initiating the polymerization of (B2) on exposure to actinic light, andB4) a dye or colored pigment in a primary color of multicolor printing, andC) a thermoplastic adhesive layer on the photosensitive layer,which contains at least about 1.5% by weight of a water-soluble, colorless, low-molecular-weight salt whose aqueous solution is not highly acidic.The material is processed by lamination onto an image-receiving material, exposure and peeling apart of the film support and the image-receiving material, the unexposed areas of the layer and the adhesive layer remaining on the image-receiving material.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1993Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karin Maerz, Ine Gramm, Manfred Hilger, Dieter Mohr, Stephan J. W. Platzer
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Patent number: 5478681Abstract: A method for producing a color filter comprising exposing a portion of the color filter corresponding to colored portions through a different pattern mask by colors and in an irradiation dose varying for each mask to effect patterning and successively coloring the pattern portions smaller or larger in the order of light irradiation dose by way of development and electrodeposition.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1993Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Yamasita, Haruyoshi Sato, Toru Nakamura, Hitoshi Yuasa, Yutaka Otsuki
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Patent number: 5474875Abstract: A photosensitive mixture useful for producing relief and printing plates consists essentially of(a) at least one block copolymer of styrene, butadiene and/or isoprene,(b) at least one photopolymerizable olefinically at least monounsaturated organic compound,(c) at least one photoinitiator, and(d) at least one azo dye.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1994Date of Patent: December 12, 1995Assignee: BASF Lacke+FarbenInventors: Thomas Loerzer, Thomas Telser, Thomas Zwez
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Patent number: 5462834Abstract: Photographic images may be produced on a backing such as paper and polyester sheets, from photographic negatives which encompass line rendering, design comps, copy, complex color separation or the like with water-based varnishes and pigments, the resulting images closely resembling, if not exactly, the same image in its commercially printed form. Thus all aspects of color proofs produced by this invention provide greatly improved predictability as to the appearance of the final printed job, with a further improvement of cost savings over conventional techniques of preparing color proofs. Also, said proofing method can be used to provide a "transfer" so that one may transfer the colored image or images to a more suitable or required backing.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1994Date of Patent: October 31, 1995Inventors: Edward L. Weller, Jr., Edward J. Renkor, Edward L. Weller, III
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Patent number: 5455142Abstract: An image formation process uses two light-sensitive elements comprising first and second adhesive light-sensitive layers which become nonadhesive upon exposure to light, respectively, and first and second toner elements comprising toner layers (a') and (b') of hues (a) and (b), respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1992Date of Patent: October 3, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohnosuke Takahashi, Hideyuki Nakamura, Fumiaki Shinozaki, Shinji Tsuno
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Patent number: 5443937Abstract: A precolored, water-developable, photosensitive elements comprising:(A) a support;(B) a colorant-containing layer consisting essentially of(1) a colorant, and(2) a polyvinyl alcohol binder, said binder being about 87-100% hydrolyzed and being of sufficiently high molecular weight to be film-forming; and(C) a photosensitive layer consisting essentially of:(3) a photosensitive, water-soluble, polymeric diazo resin; and(4) a polyvinyl alcohol binder, said binder being about 87-100% hydrolyzed and being of sufficiently high molecular weight to be film-forming; and(D) an adhesive layer;wherein said colorant-containing layer (B) and said photosensitive layer (C) may be combined into a single layer colorant-containing, photosensitive coating (E) which must be in contact with the adhesive layer (D) or alternatively, said colorant-containing layer (B) and said photosensitive layer (C) may be in separate but contiguous layers provided that either layer (B) or (C) must be in contact with the adhesive layer (D), and provType: GrantFiled: July 20, 1994Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Gregory A. Bodager, Robert W. Peiffer
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Patent number: 5439775Abstract: An image formation process uses two light-sensitive elements comprising first and second adhesive light-sensitive layers which become nonadhesive upon exposure to light, respectively, and first and second toner elements comprising toner layers (a') and (b') of hues (a) and (b), respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1994Date of Patent: August 8, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohnosuke Takahashi, Hideyuki Nakamura, Fumiaki Shinozaki, Shinji Tsuno
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Patent number: 5436106Abstract: The invention relates to a positive-working colored photosensitive recording material for the production of a color test image, composed of a temporary layer carrier, a photosensitive layer containing dyestuff or pigment, binder and quinonediazide compound and an adhesive layer which can be activated by means of heat, wherein a release layer based on polyvinyl alcohol is present on the surface of the temporary layer carrier, the photosensitive layer comprises, as the quinonediazide compound, an esterification product of a compound containing one or more phenolic hydroxyl groups and o-quinonediazide-sulfonyl chloride, and, as the binder, a novolak-free phenolic polymer resin and/or a reaction product of the phenolic polymer resin with a monoisocyanate, and the adhesive layer comprises a alkali-insoluble organic polymer and an alkali-soluble polyester. The invention also relates to a process for the production of a color test image using the recording material described.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1994Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Mohr, Martin Benzing, Juergen Mertes, Guenter Hultzsch, Ine Gramm, Manfred Michel, Andreas Elsaesser, Shane Hsieh, David L. Siegfried
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Patent number: 5436112Abstract: This invention provides novel ethylenically unsaturated urethane monomers and photoreactive compositions comprising such monomers as essential constituents. The monomers can be photopolymerized or photocrosslinked and are useful in coating systems and multilayer color proofing systems. Additionally, they offer superior advantages such as significantly reduced migration between layers in multilayer color proofing systems.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1994Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Hoechst Celanese CorporationInventors: Shane Hsieh, Wojciech A. Wilczak
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Patent number: 5429903Abstract: This invention relates to water developable, negative working photosensitized sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process. The invention provides both overlay and transfer type proofing sheets which have good fingerprint resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1994Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: Hoechst Celanese CorporationInventor: Stanley F. Wanat
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Patent number: 5427894Abstract: A process for preparing images on tonable, light-sensitive layers using a transfer material comprising (a) a support, (b) a transfer layer containing in its binder a finely divided powder or a finely divided powder and a dissolved dye, and (c) a cover layer containing a binder and/or discrete, inert particles is described. Such transfer materials can be used to make color proof prints having high resolution, reproducible color density, low dot growth, and no troublesome background fog.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1992Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Bernhard Metzger
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Patent number: 5422229Abstract: A photosensitive layered sheet for producing transferrable decorative foil designs comprising a solvent resistant, hydrophobic plastic film having superimposed thereon the following sequential layers of coatings:(a) a clear or colored water insoluble lacquer;(b) a clear water soluble polymer;(c) an organic solvent containing from 2-8% by weight of aluminum platelets having their largest dimension not greater than about 5000 microns and a thickness not greater than 1000 angstroms;(d) an ink extender;(e) an ink coat powder, and(f) a pre-sensitized photographic emulsion.A method of making these photosensitive layered sheets.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1994Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Fabco Products, Inc.Inventors: Barry Typlin, John E. Murtaugh
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Patent number: 5401603Abstract: A tonable, aqueous-processable, photosensitive element and process for forming a colored image from said element is described. The element comprises a support and a tonable, aqueous-processable photosensitive layer, said photosensitive layer consisting essentially of (a) an aqueous-processable, photoinsolubilizable photosensitive composition comprising a photosensitive material, and (b) a water-soluble plasticizer, wherein said photosensitive material is present in sufficient amount to insolubilize said photosensitive layer on exposure to actinic radiation, said photosensitive composition is present in sufficient amount to form a layer when said photosensitive layer is coated, and said plasticizer is present in sufficient amount to make said photosensitive layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1994Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Gregory A. Bodager, Bruce M. Monroe
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Patent number: 5399458Abstract: A process for preparing images, particularly color proof prints, in which tacky and non-tacky areas are produced by imagewise exposure of a radiation-sensitive layer is described. The tacky areas are toned with a toner having a tackiness that can be increased by irradiation with actinic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1993Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Mario Grossa, Dieter Tigler, Bernhard Metzger, Paola Gallo
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Patent number: 5399449Abstract: A method for producing a color filter involves (A) forming a photosensitive coating film on at least a transparent electrically conductive layer formed on an outermost surface of a transparent substrate and exposing the photosensitive coating film through a mask having patterns of at least three different degrees of light transmittances; (B) developing and removing a photosensitive coating film region corresponding to one of the patterns of the smallest and largest degrees of light transmittances for exposing the transparent electrically conductive layer and electrodepositing a colored coating on the exposed transparent electrically conductive layer for forming a colored layer thereon. Operation of developing and removing the photosensitive coating film and electrodepositing the colored coating is repeated for the respective patterns of different degrees of light transmittances in sequence of difference in light transmittances to form different colored layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1993Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichiro Tanimoto, Haruyoshi Sato, Yutaka Otsuki
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Patent number: 5397676Abstract: The present invention provides a new image forming method. The image forming method uses a light-sensitive material. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive polymerizable layer. The light-sensitive polymerizable layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or a cross-linkable polymer. Any of the silver halide, the reducing agent, the polymerizable compound and the polymer are not encapsulated in the layer. The image forming method comprising the steps of imagewise exposing to light the light-sensitive material and simultaneously or thereafter heating the light-sensitive material at a temperature of not lower than 70.degree. C. At the heat development, the silver halide is developed and the polymerizable compound or the cross-linkable polymer is hardened. Thus, a hardened image is formed on the light-sensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1994Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Yokoya, Osami Tanabe
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Patent number: 5397683Abstract: A photochemical method of making a tactile design comprises the steps of exposing to light a selected portion of photo-sensitive layer-supported by a substrate; applying a decorative coating to the photo-sensitive layer; applying a photo-sensitive emulsion over the decorative coating; exposing to light the same selected portion of the photo-sensitive emulsion; and removing the photo-sensitive emulsion, the decorative coating, and the photo-sensitive layer from the non-selected portions. The tactile design comprises a layer of photo-sensitive material fixedly attached to a selected portion of a substrate wherein the layer has been exposed to light and the layer projects away from the surface of the substrate a sufficient distance to be sensitive to the touch. At least one decorative coating is fixedly attached to the photo-sensitive layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1993Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Inventor: Gerald Roland
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Patent number: 5393640Abstract: A photosensitive material either comprises a support, a peel layer, a barrier layer and a coloring material-containing photosensitive layer or a laminate of a coloring material layer and a photosensitive layer, superposed in order, or comprises a support having a releasing surface, an intermediate layer instead of both the peel layer and the barrier layer as mentioned above, a coloring material-containing photosensitive layer or a laminate of a coloring material layer and a photosensitive layer, superposed in order. The barrier layer or the intermediate layer comprises a polymer having a glass transition temperature not higher than 70.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1994Date of Patent: February 28, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Wakata, Chiyomi Niitsu
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Patent number: 5391442Abstract: The present invention provides the color pattern forming method wherein the process is simple and therefore the product can be manufactured at a low cost and it is possible to obtain an RGB color filter with superior pattern precision.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Tsushima, Iwao Sumiyoshi, Masaaki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 5374497Abstract: A print-out layer is incorporated in a donor element that is useful in a dry color proofing process in which a colored image is transferred from the donor element to a receiver. To achieve full color reproduction, images are transferred in succession and in register, to the receiver from donor elements, respectively containing yellow, magenta, cyan and black colorants. A visible image is formed in the print-out layer as a result of imagewise exposure of the donor element to activating radiation and is utilized to facilitate visual registration in forming the multicolor image on the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1993Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard J. Kapusniak, David A. Niemeyer
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Patent number: 5372910Abstract: A process for preparing images on a tonable, light-sensitive layer using a transfer layer containing at least 20 percent by weight of a toner and a polymer with a maximum tensile strength of at least 2 N/mm.sup.2 as a binder. The pigmented transfer layers can be used in color proofing processes requiring high resolution, reproducible color density and low dot gain.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1993Date of Patent: December 13, 1994Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Bernhard Metzger, Helmet H. Frohlich
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Patent number: 5372902Abstract: A method for producing a color filter involves (A) forming a photosensitive coating film on a transparent electrically conductive layer of a transparent substrate having the transparent electrically conductive layer on its surface, and exposing the photosensitive coating film to light in a first irradiation amount through a mask having a predetermined pattern of a certain light transmittance and at least once displacing the mask to another position on the photosensitive coating film and exposing the photosensitive coating film to light in a second irradiation amount different from the first irradiation amount through the mask; and (B) developing and removing a photosensitive coating film portion exposed to light in one of the smallest and largest irradiation amounts for exposing the transparent electrically conductive layer and electrodepositing a colored coating on the exposed electrically conductive layer for forming a colored layer thereon, operation of developing and removing the photosensitive coating fiType: GrantFiled: September 22, 1993Date of Patent: December 13, 1994Assignee: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Haruyoshi Sato, Toru Nakamura, Hitoshi Yuasa, Yutaka Otsuki
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Patent number: 5368991Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition for use in a light-shielding film, comprising a photosensitive resin and a light-shielding coloring material, wherein light transmission properties after formation of the light-shielding film are controlled by the light-shielding coloring material so that (i) the light transmission through the light-shielding film is 1% or more in at least one wavelength of a light wavelength region of from 330 nm to less than 425 nm, and (ii) the light transmission through the light-shielding film is 2% or less in a light wavelength region of from 425 to 650 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1993Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Uchikawa, Hiroshi Komano, Toshimi Aoyama, Katsuyuki Ohta
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Patent number: 5368982Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming process employing a light-sensitive image forming material and a developing solution. The image forming material comprises a support, a peel layer and a light-sensitive resin layer containing a pigment having an anionic group, superposed in order. The process comprises the steps of imagewise exposing the image forming material to light and developing the material by the use of a developing solution having a polymer having the following recurring unit (A): ##STR1## such as poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) to form an image on the peel layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1992Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tamotsu Suzuki, Tomohisa Tago, Fumiaki Shinozaki
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Patent number: 5364740Abstract: A process for producing an imaged article with little or no residual dye stain and with a colored image involving the steps of:(a) exposing a positive- or negative-acting photoresist to radiation having a wavelength in the range of from about 300 to 1100 nm, the photoresist containing:(i) a photosensitive composition; and(ii) a dye, capable of sensitizing a photolyzable organic halogen compound, in reactive association with an aromatic iodonium salt or halogenated triazine compound,thereby forming an image in the exposed or unexposed areas of the photoresist;(b) developing the image resulting from step (a); and(c) bleaching the remaining sensitizing dye in the photoresist by simultaneously heating and exposing the sensitizing dye and aromatic iodonium salt or halogenated triazine compound to radiation having a wavelength in the range of about 300 to about 700 nm at a temperature of at least about 40.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1993Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Elsie A. Fohrenkamm, James F. Sanders
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Patent number: 5364731Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-color transfer image forming method, which comprises subjecting a colored image forming material having a coloration recording layer comprising at least two layers and containing a photosensitive material and a colorant on a support to aqueous development after imagewise exposure, thereby forming a colored image, transferring the colored image to an image receiving member through the outermost surface of the coloration recording layer and then transferring at least one colored image with different hue onto the same image receiving member in conformity with the colored image, characterized in that the layer of the coloration recording layer remotest from the support is a layer adherable to the image receiving member, and only the colored image portion is transferred onto the image receiving member to have the image receiving member surface exposed at the non-image portion of the multi-color image.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1993Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignees: Konica Corporation, Mitsubishi Kasei CorporationInventors: Kunio Shimizu, Nobumasa Sasa, Manabu Watanabe, Hiroshi Ide, Shinya Mayama
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Patent number: 5348834Abstract: This invention relates to water developable, negative working photosensitized sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process. The invention provides both overlay and transfer type proofing sheets which have good fingerprint resistance.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1993Date of Patent: September 20, 1994Assignee: Hoechst Celanese CorporationInventor: Stanley F. Wanat
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Patent number: 5348833Abstract: The invention relates to a positive-working colored photosensitive recording material for the production of a color test image, composed of a temporary layer carrier, a photosensitive layer containing dyestuff or pigment, binder and quinonediazide compound and an adhesive layer which can be activated by means of heat, wherein a release layer based on polyvinyl alcohol is present on the surface of the temporary layer carrier, the photosensitive layer comprises, as the quinonediazide compound, an esterification product of a compound containing one or more phenolic hydroxyl groups and o-quinonediazide-sulfonyl chloride, and, as the binder, a novolak-free phenolic polymer resin and/or a reaction product of the phenolic polymer resin with a monoisocyanate, and the adhesive layer compresses a alkali-insoluble organic polymer and an alkali-soluble polyester. The invention also relates to a process for the production of a color test image using the recording material described.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1992Date of Patent: September 20, 1994Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Mohr, Martin Benzing, Juergen Mertes, Guenter Hultzsch, Ine Gramm, Manfred Michel, Andreas Elsaesser, Shane Hsieh, David L. Siegfried
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Patent number: 5346801Abstract: An image forming process of an image forming material comprising a support and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer and a covering layer in that order comprises imagewise exposing the material by laser beam scanning, and peeling the covering film from the exposed material to form an image on the support or on the covering film, wherein said photosensitive layer contains a colorant, an addition-polymerizable or cross-linkable compound and a salt of a cationic dye with a borate anion represented by the following Formula (1):Formula (1) ##STR1##Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1993Date of Patent: September 13, 1994Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Tatsuichi Maehashi, Koichi Nakatani, Katsunori Kato, Tawara Komamura
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Patent number: 5334468Abstract: A method for producing a color filter involves (A) forming a photosensitive coating film on a transparent electrically conductive layer provided on an outermost surface of a substrate having an alignment film, and exposing the photosensitive coating film to light in a first irradiation amount through a mask having a predetermined pattern of a certain light transmittance and at least once displacing the mask to another position on the photosensitive coating film and exposing the photosensitive coating film to light in a second irradiation amount different from the first irradiation amount through the mask; (B) developing and removing a photosensitive coating film portion exposed to light in one of smallest and largest irradiation amounts for exposing the transparent electrically conductive layer and electrodepositing a colored coating on the exposed electrically conductive layer for forming a colored layer thereon, operation of developing and removing the photosensitive coating film and electrodepositing the cType: GrantFiled: July 6, 1992Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Assignee: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Yamasita, Haruyoshi Sato, Toru Nakamura, Hitoshi Yuasa, Yutaka Otsuki
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Patent number: 5314784Abstract: A process for transferring toned images to an image receptor at low temperatures with improved back transfer characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1993Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Robert P. Held
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Patent number: 5310627Abstract: A method for locally enhancing the contrast of a yellow image, which method comprises providing a yellow image on a white background, said image comprised of yellow areas and white areas, said yellow areas and white areas exhibiting pH levels which differ by at least 0.5 in an aqueous environment, applying to at least a portion of said yellow image a solution of a pH color changing dye which will change color to a color other than yellow when coated on one of said yellow areas or white areas and not change color when coated on the other of said yellow areas or white areas, thereby forming a colored image duplicating the yellow image in areas where the solution has been applied, said colored image having a visually better contrast than said yellow image.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1992Date of Patent: May 10, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Suzan J. Hirz, Bruce W. Weeks