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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:
Nov. 20, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert J Matoushek, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; G03G / ; B41J / ; H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 346 25 ; 219216 ; 355282 ; 355285 ; 355295 ; 400120 ;
Abstract
A method for fusing thermal transfer prints to avoid blister-type defects. The method includes in order, the steps of rapidly heating respective print image portions to a first temperature slightly below their respective components boiling temperature, maintaining respective print image portions at approximately the first temperature for a time period sufficient to allow significant evaporation from said print portions and, after such period, rapidly heating such significantly dried print portions to the desired fusing temperature, above the components boiling points.