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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:
Sep. 12, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4283213 ; 428195 ; 428212 ; 428336 ; 428341 ; 428342 ; 4284884 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer ink sheet adopted to be repeatedly reused several times in a printing operation by means of a thermal printer. The thermal transfer ink sheet comprises a sheet-like base such as paper or a plastic film, a hot-melt ink layer stacked on the base with an adhesive layer disposed therebetween, and an ink-holding porous membrane layer filled with hot-melt ink and stacked on the ink layer. Another hot-melt ink layer may be further stacked on the ink-holding porous membrane layer.