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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:
Feb. 14, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kwok-leung Yip, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ;
Abstract
A thermal dye transfer apparatus includes an array of laser diodes which illuminate a dye carrying donor. The donor absorbs heat from laser light and dye transfers by sublimination from the donor to the receiver to form pixels. Light from each diode laser is modulated to have different pixel density levels.