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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1988
Filed:
May. 14, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan L Borror, Andover, MA (US);
Ernest W Ellis, Carlisle, MA (US);
Assignee:
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ; G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430332 ; 430333 ; 430338 ; 430138 ; 430964 ; 430945 ; 503201 ; 503217 ; 503224 ; 503204 ;
Abstract
A thermal imaging method is provided which employs as color-forming co-reactants, (a) a substantially colorless di- or triarylmethane compound possessing on the meso carbon atom within its triarylmethane structure an aryl group substituted in the ortho position with a nucleophilic moiety which is ring-closed on the meso carbon atom and (b) an electrophilic reagent which upon heating and contacting said di- or triarylmethane compound undergoes a bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction with the nucleophilic moiety to form a colored, ring-opened di- or triarylmethane compound.