Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Imation Corporation

3m Innovative Properties Company

Trimech Technology Pte. Ltd

Stanley C Busman

Gregory D Cuny

Richard J Ellis

Krzysztof Antoni Zaklika

Dennis Edward Vogel

Pingfan Peter Wu

William Donald Ramsden

Tran V Thien

Jeanne E Haubrich

Mohammad Z Ali

William M Lamanna

Douglas Scott Dunn

Minyu Li

Jeffrey C Chang

William Vogel Dower

Hsin-hsin Chou

John C Chang

Thomas A Isberg

Ramon F Hegel

Richard E Bills

Chin Teong Ong

Yi Lin Sim

Wee Hock Chan

Douglas A Dunn

Xinhe Chen

Meng Sheng Toy

Andrei Potanin

The present invention discloses a display panel substrate assembly and an apparatus and method for forming a display panel substrate assembly, wherein the substrate assembly includes a first substrate and a second substrate. At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate is optically clear. The method includes the steps of screen printing a non-sag adhesive composition onto a surface of the first substrate, bringing the non-sag adhesive composition into contact with a surface of the second substrate in an environment having a pressure of less than or equal to about 5000 pascals, and curing the non-sag adhesive composition to yield an adhesive layer. The non-sag adhesive composition is of a type which is optically clear after curing.

Display panel substrate assembly and an apparatus and method for forming a display panel substrate assembly

Multi-layer articles capable of forming color images are provided. The articles include a multi-layer construction with at least two layers in which at least one of the layers includes a thermally activatable composition. The thermally activatable composition includes a non-linear light to heat converter composition and a color forming compound. Upon activation with a light source an image forms.

Multilayer articles capable of forming color images

Methods for generating a color image are provided which include a multi-layer construction in which at least one of the layers is a thermally activatable layer that includes a thermally activatable composition. The thermally activatable composition includes a non-linear light to heat converter composition and a color forming compound. Upon activation with a light source an image forms.

Generation of color images

Holographic data storage media having a sandwiched construction are described in which a holographic recording material is sandwiched between two substrates. A variety of different formulations of the holographic recording material are also described. By improving the formulation of the photosensitive material, holographic media can be improved.

Recording material formulations for holographic media

Magnetic recording medium having a low molecular weight azo dye including an aryl group

Photochemical acid progenitors in combination with dihydroperimidine squarylium dyes have been found to be particularly effective at generating acid upon irradiation with near-infrared radiation. It has been found that dihydroperimidine squarylium dyes that are particularly useful in this invention have an oxidation potential greater than about 0.5 V relative to SCE as measured in dichloromethane.

Compositions and processes for photogeneration of acid

Composition comprising photochemical acid progenitor and specific

The invention relates to a method of increasing the sensitivity of laser induced thermal imaging by using certain diazo compounds. The diazo compounds contain functional groups adjacent the diazo substituent capable of stabilizing these compounds. The invention is useful in the field of thermal transfer imaging for the production of various graphic arts media.

Diazo compounds for laser-induced mass transfer imaging materials

The invention relates to a method of increasing the sensitivity of laser induced thermal imaging by using certain sublimable compounds. The invention is useful in the field of thermal transfer imaging for the production of various graphic arts media.

Laser-induced mass transfer imaging materials and methods utilizing

Laser-Induced mass transfer imaging materials utilizing diazo compounds

A cationic dye in a ketone solvent, wherein the cationic dye has a counterion which comprises a linear, branched or cyclic highly fluorinated alkylsulfonyl methide or highly fluorinated alkyl sulfonyl imide.

Organic soluble cationic dyes with fluorinated alkylsulfonyl counterions

Laser-addressable thermal transfer materials for producing color proofs, printing plates, films, printed circuit boards, and other media are disclosed. The materials contain a substrate coated thereon with a propellant layer wherein the propellant layer contains a material capable of producing nitrogen (N.sub.2) gas at a temperature of preferably less than about 300.degree. C.; a radiation absorber; and a thermal mass transfer material. The thermal mass transfer material may be incorporated into the propellant layer or in an additional layer coated onto the propellant layer. The radiation absorber may be employed in one of the above-disclosed layers or in a separate layer in order to achieve localized heating with an electromagnetic energy source, such as a laser. Upon laser induced heating, the transfer material is propelled to the receptor by the rapid expansion of gas. The thermal mass transfer material may contain, for example, pigments, toner particles, resins, metal particles, monomers, polymers, dyes, or combinations thereof. Also disclosed is a process for forming an image as well as an imaged article made thereby.

Propellant-containing thermal transfer donor elements

A high speed visible light sensitive photopolymerizable composition useful for printing plates comprising

High sensitivity photopolymerizable composition

A visible light sensitive free radical polymerization photoinitiator composition comprising (a) an initiator selected from diaryl iodonium salts, halogenated triazines, and triaryl sulfonium salts having a reduction potential in the range 0.0 to -1.5 eV, and (b) at least one merocyanine sensitizer containing a constrained alkylamino group. These initiator compositions give high speed polymerization reactions with ethylenically unsaturated monomers and oligomers.

Sensitized photoinitiator system for addition polymerization

An image-forming laminate is formed by the combination of a thin, frangible light opaque material on top of a photosensitive layer which changes its surfactant properties when irradiated. The photosensitive layer according to the present invention comprises a film-forming polymeric binder, a photosensitive acid generator, and a surfactant selected from nonionic surfactants, the neutral form of cationic surfactants, amphoteric surfactants, and surfactant acid salts. Preferably the frangible light opaque material is a thin metal layer. There can also be present a support layer on the other surface of the photosensitive layer, as well as there can be an adhesive layer secured to the upper surface of the frangible light opaque material. The strength of adherence of the adhesive layer to the metal should be intermediate the strength of the adherence of the light opaque material prior to and after photoactivation.

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Stanley C Busman