EP0413569A3 - Thermal imaging system - Google Patents

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EP0413569A3
EP0413569A3 EP19900308954 EP90308954A EP0413569A3 EP 0413569 A3 EP0413569 A3 EP 0413569A3 EP 19900308954 EP19900308954 EP 19900308954 EP 90308954 A EP90308954 A EP 90308954A EP 0413569 A3 EP0413569 A3 EP 0413569A3
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imaging system
thermal imaging
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David Peter Henry Smith
Mark Terence Leonard
David Walter Swan
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3M Co
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/26—Thermography ; Marking by high energetic means, e.g. laser otherwise than by burning, and characterised by the material used
    • B41M5/382—Contact thermal transfer or sublimation processes
    • B41M5/3825—Electric current carrying heat transfer sheets
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G5/00—Recording members for original recording by exposure, e.g. to light, to heat, to electrons; Manufacture thereof; Selection of materials therefor
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G5/00—Recording members for original recording by exposure, e.g. to light, to heat, to electrons; Manufacture thereof; Selection of materials therefor
    • G03G5/02—Charge-receiving layers
    • G03G5/028—Layers in which after being exposed to heat patterns electrically conductive patterns are formed in the layers, e.g. for thermoxerography
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G5/00—Recording members for original recording by exposure, e.g. to light, to heat, to electrons; Manufacture thereof; Selection of materials therefor
    • G03G5/153—Charge-receiving layers combined with additional photo- or thermo-sensitive, but not photoconductive, layers, e.g. silver-salt layers

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
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  • Thermal Transfer Or Thermal Recording In General (AREA)
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EP90308954A 1989-08-15 1990-08-15 Thermal imaging system Expired - Lifetime EP0413569B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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GB898918622A GB8918622D0 (en) 1989-08-15 1989-08-15 Thermal imaging system
GB8918622 1989-08-15

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EP0413569A2 EP0413569A2 (en) 1991-02-20
EP0413569A3 true EP0413569A3 (en) 1991-10-16
EP0413569B1 EP0413569B1 (en) 1994-12-07

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EP90308954A Expired - Lifetime EP0413569B1 (en) 1989-08-15 1990-08-15 Thermal imaging system

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EP (1) EP0413569B1 (en)
JP (1) JPH03197053A (en)
KR (1) KR910005103A (en)
DE (1) DE69014768T2 (en)
GB (1) GB8918622D0 (en)

Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2798959A (en) * 1953-10-01 1957-07-09 Rca Corp Photoconductive thermography
FR2087778A5 (en) * 1970-03-16 1971-12-31 Ibm
FR2368066A1 (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-05-12 Eastman Kodak Co Electro-photothermographic material - with semiconductor between electrically conductive substrate and charge-sensitive thermographic layer (BE 12.4.78)
GB2004077A (en) * 1977-09-10 1979-03-21 Philips Nv Storing deformation images
US4470055A (en) * 1982-03-10 1984-09-04 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Photo-thermal ink transferring device

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2798959A (en) * 1953-10-01 1957-07-09 Rca Corp Photoconductive thermography
FR2087778A5 (en) * 1970-03-16 1971-12-31 Ibm
FR2368066A1 (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-05-12 Eastman Kodak Co Electro-photothermographic material - with semiconductor between electrically conductive substrate and charge-sensitive thermographic layer (BE 12.4.78)
GB2004077A (en) * 1977-09-10 1979-03-21 Philips Nv Storing deformation images
US4470055A (en) * 1982-03-10 1984-09-04 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Photo-thermal ink transferring device

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DE69014768T2 (en) 1995-07-13
KR910005103A (en) 1991-03-30
JPH03197053A (en) 1991-08-28
GB8918622D0 (en) 1989-09-27
EP0413569A2 (en) 1991-02-20
DE69014768D1 (en) 1995-01-19
EP0413569B1 (en) 1994-12-07

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