3M Innovative Properties Company

Eastman-Kodak Company

Brian L Johnson

Jeffrey W McCutcheon

Michael A Jung

Thomas L Morse

Duane A Preszler

Richard Paul Bushman

A Dwayne Nelson

A thermal processor for thermally developing an image in an imaging material. The thermal processor includes an oven and a plurality of rollers positioned to form a transport path and, through contact with the imaging material, configured to move the imaging material through the oven along the transport path. Each roller has an initial contact point and a final contact point with the imaging material as the imaging material moves along the transport path. A spacing between the rollers is varied such that a distance between a final contact point and an initial contact point of at least a first pair of rollers along the transport path is different from a distance between a final contact point and an initial contact point of at least a second pair of consecutive rollers along the transport path.

Thermal processor employing varying roller spacing

The present invention relates to a vibration damped spacer articles having good force (torque and/or pressure and/or stress) retention, and disk drives having a damped spacer article and a rotatable storage article inserted therein.

Damped spacer articles and disk drive assemblies containing damped spacer articles

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Brian L Johnson