Eastman-kodak Company

Linda Mae Franklin

Christine Joanne Landry-Coltrain

Marcus Stephen Bermel

Lisa Baxter Todd

Thomas Henry Mourey

David M Teegarden

Lee William Tutt

Mitchell Stewart Burberry

Hwei-Ling Yau

Kam Chuen Ng

Lawrence A Rowley

Dennis R Perchak

Christopher R Hoffman

Teh-Ming Kung

Kristine B Lawrence

Jeffrey W Leon

Xiaoru Wang

Dennis J Massa

Walter Harold Isaac

Paul E Woodgate

Christine Jt Landry-Coltrain

A method is used to provide an electrically conductive article. The method includes: (i) providing a continuous polymeric web of a transparent polymeric substrate; (ii) forming a first photocurable pattern on at least a first portion on a first supporting side of the continuous polymeric web using a photocurable composition comprising metal particles; (iii) exposing the photocurable pattern to form a photocured pattern on the first portion of the first supporting side; (iv) electrolessly plating the photocured pattern with an electrically-conductive metal to form an electrically-conductive metal pattern; and (v) forming a dry outermost polymeric coating over at least part but not all of the electrically-conductive pattern, the dry polymeric coating having a dry thickness of less than 5 &#x3bc;m, an integrated transmittance of at least 80%, and comprising a non-crosslinked thermoplastic polymer having a glass transition temperature (T) that is equal to or greater than 65&#xb0; C.

Patterning continuous webs with protected electrically-conductive grids

An electronic device has a touch screen comprising a transparent substrate having a first supporting side and an opposing second supporting side. The first supporting side of the touch screen has at least one electrically-conductive pattern, and a dry outermost polymeric coating disposed over at least part but not all of the electrically-conductive metal pattern. The dry polymeric coating has a dry thickness of less than 5 &#x3bc;m, an integrated transmittance of at least 80%, and a non-crosslinked thermoplastic polymer having a glass transition temperature (T) that is equal to or greater than 65&#xb0; C.

Devices with protected electrically-conductive metal grids

An article comprises a transparent substrate having a first supporting side and an opposing second supporting side. An electrically-conductive pattern is disposed on at least the first supporting side. A dry outermost polymeric coating disposed over at least part but not all of the electrically-conductive pattern, the dry outermost polymeric coating having a dry thickness of less than 5 &#x3bc;m, an integrated transmittance of at least 80%, and comprising a non-crosslinked thermoplastic polymer having a glass transition temperature (T) that is equal to or greater than 65&#xb0; C.

Electrically-conductive articles with protective polymeric coatings

A method is used to provide an electrically-conductive article. This method includes: forming an electrically-conductive pattern on first supporting side of a transparent substrate that also comprises an opposing second supporting side; and forming a dry outermost polymeric coating over at least part but not all of the electrically-conductive pattern, the dry polymeric coating having a dry thickness of less than 5 &#x3bc;m, an integrated transmittance of at least 80%, and comprising a non-crosslinked thermoplastic polymer having a glass transition temperature (T) that is equal to or greater than 65&#xb0; C.

Methods for providing electrically-conductive articles

Used flexographic printing members and unused flexographic printing precursors can be recycled for reuse. This recycling can be achieved by melting a laser-engraveable layer of a flexographic printing precursor or a laser-engraved layer of a flexographic printing member to form a melt, and reforming the melt into a new laser-engravable flexographic printing precursor. The laser-engraveable layer or laser-engraved layer comprises one or more thermoplastic elastomeric nanocrystalline polyolefins that can also be mixed with non-nanocrystalline polymers.

Method for recycling relief image elements

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

A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes ethyl cellulose as a binder. The dye-donor element is capable of printing a defect-free image on a receiver element at a line speed of 2.0 msec/line or less while maintaining a print density of at least 2.0.

Thermal donor for high-speed printing

The present invention comprises an inkjet recording element comprising a support having thereon at least two ink receiving layers capable of accepting an inkjet image, at least one of said layers comprising porous polyester particles. The present invention also includes a method of forming an inkjet print comprising providing an inkjet recording element comprising at least two ink receiving layers capable of accepting an inkjet image, at least one of said layers comprising porous polyester particles and printing on said inkjet recording element utilizing an inkjet printer.

Multilayer inkjet recording element with porous polyester particle

A thermally conductive material, a donor element including the material, a method of printing using the donor element, and a print assembly including the donor element are described, wherein the thermally conductive material includes at least two immiscible or incompatible organic polymers, or a block or graft copolymer, wherein the constituent homopolymer repeat units that form the copolymer are prepared from chemical species that would form mutually immiscible or incompatible polymers, and thermally conductive particles having a short axis of less than or equal to 0.2 microns.

Thermally conducive material and use in high-speed printing

An ink jet recording element comprising a support having thereon an image-receptive layer capable of accepting an ink jet image comprising an open-pore membrane of a mixture of a water-insoluble polymer and a water-absorbent polymer, the mixture containing at least about 25% by weight of the water-absorbent polymer, the image-receiving layer being made by dissolving the mixture of polymers in a solvent mixture, the solvent mixture comprising at least one solvent which is a good solvent for the water-insoluble polymer and at least one poor solvent for the water-insoluble polymer, the poor solvent having a higher boiling point than the good solvent, coating the dissolved mixture on the support, and then drying to remove approximately all of the solvents to obtain the open-pore membrane.

Ink jet recording element

Ink jet printing method

The present invention is an imaged photographic element having a protective overcoat thereon. The protective overcoat is formed by providing a photographic element having at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer. A first coating of hydrophobic polymer particles having an average size of 0.01 to 1 microns, a melting temperature of from 55 to 200&deg; C. at a weight percent of 30 to 95, and gelatin at a weight percent of 5 to 70 is applied to form a first layer over the silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer. A second coating of abrasion resistant particles having an average size of from 0.01 to 1 microns is applied to form a second layer over the first layer. The photographic element is developed to provide an imaged photographic element. The first and second layers are fused to form a protective overcoat.

Scratch resistant-water resistant overcoat for photographic systems

A photographic element is disclosed comprising a support, at least one silver-halide emulsion layer superposed on the support and a processing-solution-permeable overcoat overlying the silver-halide emulsion layer that becomes water resistant in the final product. In particular, the overcoat comprises an open-pore membrane of a water-insoluble polymer, the membrane layer being made by dissolving homogeneously the polymer in a solvent mixture, the solvent mixture comprising at least one solvent which is a relatively good solvent for the water-insoluble polymer and at least one solvent which is a relatively poor solvent for the water-insoluble polymer, wherein the relatively poor solvent has a higher boiling point than the relatively good solvent, coating the dissolved mixture onto the at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer, and then drying to remove approximately all of the solvents to obtain the open-pore membrane. The invention is also directed to a method of processing the above-described photographic element, in which a latent image in the imaging element is developed to provide an imaged photographic element, and the porous-membrane layer is fused to form a water-resistant protective overcoat.

Protective overcoat for photographic elements

The present invention is an imaged photographic element having a protective overcoat thereon. The protective overcoat is formed by providing a photographic element having at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer. A first coating of hydrophobic polymer particles having an average size of 0.01 to 1 microns, a melting temperature of from 55 to 200 &deg; C. at a weight percent of 30 to 95, and one or more hydrophilic polymers at a total weight percent of 5 to 70 is applied to form a first layer over the silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer. A second coating of abrasion resistant particles having an average size of from 0.01 to 1 microns is applied to form a second layer over the first layer. The coatings are dried at temperatures not exceeding the melting point of the particles used in the first coating, or of the glass transition temperature of the abrasion resistant particles used in the second coating, whichever is the lowest. After photoprocessing, the first and second layers can be fused to form a protective overcoat. The photographic element is developed to provide an imaged photographic element.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Linda Mae Franklin