Eastman-kodak Company

Lawrence A Rowley

Robert O James

Christine Joanne Landry-Coltrain

Lee William Tutt

Debasis Majumdar

Mitchell Stewart Burberry

Ronald Myron Wexler

Todd Mathew Spath

Daniel F Hurley

John N Border

Glen C Irvin, Jr

Kam Chuen Ng

David Andrew Johnson

Linda Mae Franklin

Dennis R Perchak

Joseph A Verdone

Jayme Diniz Ribeiro

Charles Chester Anderson

Michael L Boroson

Cheryl J Kaminsky

George L Oltean

Jeffrey P Serbicki

Peter G Bessey

Gregory William Keyes

Mary-Irene E Condo

Bradford D West

James R Owen

A method is used to provide a pattern of a functional material for example on a receiving element. To provide this pattern, a laser-engraveable patternable element is imagewise exposed with laser-engraving radiation. This element has a laser-engraveable layer comprising a thermoplastic elastomeric interpolymer alloy. This interpolymer alloy comprises a non-crosslinked halogenated polymer, a partially crosslinked polyolefin, and a polyester. A laser-engraved patterned element is formed that has a relief image in the laser-engraveable layer, and this relief image can be contacted with a suitable functional material that is then transferred to the receiving element to provide the desired pattern.

Method for providing patterns of functional materials

A laser-engravable patternable element can be used to provide a relief image for various types of printing including flexographic printing. This laser-engraveable patternable element has a one laser-engravable layer that comprises a thermoplastic elastomeric interpolymer alloy that comprises a non-crosslinked halogenated polymer, a partially crosslinked polyolefin, and a polyester. A relief image can be obtained by directly laser-engraving the noted element under suitable conditions.

Direct laser-engraveable patternable elements and uses

A method of patterning a conductive polymer includes providing a conductive polymer layer coated over a first support followed by pattern-wise transferring a layer containing polyvinyl acetal from a second support onto the conductive polymer to form a mask with at least one opening. The masked conductive polymer is subjected to treatment through the opening that changes the conductivity of the conductive polymer by at least one order of magnitude in areas not covered by the mask.

Patterning of transparent conductive coatings

A system for engraving a flexographic relief member includes a laser scanning apparatus providing a focused radiation beam. The flexographic relief member includes a laser engraveable flexographic member; a thin engraveable control layer on top of the flexographic member; and wherein the engraveable control layer has an engraving sensitivity lower than the flexographic member.

System for direct engraving of flexographic printing members

A method of assembling an electronic device includes providing a transparent conductive polymer layer coated over a first support followed by pattern-wise forming a transparent mask with at least one opening over the conductive polymer. The masked conductive polymer is subjected to treatment through the opening that changes conductivity of the conductive polymer by at least one order of magnitude in areas not covered by the mask to form a first electronic component. The first electronic component having the mask is secured to a second electronic component, thereby forming the electronic device.

Assembling an electrode device

A method is used to make a laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving that has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. The relief-forming layer can be prepared by applying multiple formulations. Each formulation comprises a coating solvent, a laser-ablatable polymeric binder, and an infrared radiation absorbing compound. The infrared radiation absorbing compound concentration in the resulting sub-layers is different in each adjacent pair of sub-layers so that the concentration is always greater in each pair sub-layer that is closer to the substrate, and the concentration is progressively greater in the sub-layers as they are closer to the substrate after the coating solvent is removed, wherein the multiple sub-layers provide a relief-forming layer so that the sub-layer farthest from the substrate provides a relief-image forming surface.

Method of making laser-ablatable elements

A laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. This relief-forming layer includes a laser-ablatable polymeric binder and an infrared radiation absorbing compound that is present at a concentration profile such that its concentration is greater near the bottom surface than the image-forming surface. This arrangement of the infrared radiation absorbing compound provides improved ablation efficiency, particularly when laser exposure is carried out adiabatically.

Laser-ablatable elements and methods of use

The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side electrode and device side electrode wherein each electrode comprises an insulating substrate and an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein only one of the exposed electrically conductive layers comprises carbon nanotubes.

Touchscreen with carbon nanotube conductive layers

A nanocomposite optical plastic article has a plastic host material with a temperature sensitive optical vector (x) and a core shell nanoparticulate material dispersed into the plastic host material. The core shell nanoparticulate material is characterized by a core defined by a nanoparticulate material which has a temperature sensitive optical vector (x) and a shell defined by a coating material layer coated onto the core. It is important to the invention that temperature sensitive vector (x) is directionally opposed to the temperature sensitive optical vector (x) and n&#x3c;n&#x3c;n.

Core shell nanocomposite optical plastic article

Method of manufacturing a polymethylmethacrylate core shell nanocomposite optical plastic article

A concentrated fine solid particle dispersion useful for forming a substantially photographically transparent magnetic recording layer is disclosed, comprising an organic solvent medium containing a dispersing agent and dispersed magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles are present at a concentration of at least 25% by weight and the organic solvent medium is comprised primarily of organic solvent selected from dimethyl succinate, dimethyl glutarate and dimethyl adipate. This invention provides a stable concentrated dispersion of magnetic particles useful for preparing substantially photographically transparent magnetic recording layers. A film-forming binder solution can be added to dilute the concentrated dispersion, which then can be applied to a support to form a transparent magnetic layer for a magnetic recording element. This invention also provides a photographic element which contains a magnetic recording layer which has excellent magnetic characteristics and which is substantially photographically transparent by virtue of its low granularity and optical density.

Transparent film-forming compositions for magnetic recording

An effective desiccant for use in a package which has a material including at least in part solid particles of one or more materials, at least one of such materials having an average particle size range 0.001 to 0.1 micrometers to provide a high rate of water absorption and to provide an equilibrium minimum humidity level lower than a humidity level to which a highly moisture sensitive electronic device is sensitive within a sealed enclosure.

Desiccants and desiccant packages for highly moisture-sensitive electronic devices

A method of making a magnetically encodable card which comprises forming a dispersion of ferromagnetic particles in an organic fluid medium, forming a composite by intimately combining the dispersion with a thermoplastic resin plasticized by the organic fluid medium and forming the composite into an encodable card.

Method of making a magnetically encodable card having magnetic particles uniformly distributed throughout

A photographic element having a light-sensitive layer and a transparent magnetic recording layer, the transparent magnetic recording layer comprising ferromagnetic particles having a ferromagnetic core and a shell of tin oxide or metal antimonate in a binder.

Photographic element having a transparent magnetic recording layer

A photographic element comprising a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer, a transparent magnetic recording layer, and a transparent reinforced filler layer coated over the transparent magnetic recording layer, the transparent magnetic recording layer comprising a transparent polymeric binder and ferro-magnetic particles, the magnetic particles having a surface area greater than 30 m.sup.2 /gm and a coverage of from about 1.times.10.sup.-11 mg/.mu.m.sup.3 to about 3.times.10.sup.-10 mg/.mu.m.sup.3, the transparent reinforced filler layer comprising a transparent polymeric binder and filler particles, the filler particles having a median diameter of less than 0.15 .mu.m, a Mobs hardness of at least 6 and being present in an amount of from about 20 to about 300 percent by weight based on the weight of the polymeric binder.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Lawrence A Rowley