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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:
Aug. 09, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles L Bauer, Webster, NY (US);
Noel R Vanier, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
503227 ; 428195 ; 4284884 ; 428500 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof a dye layer and on the other side thereof, in order, a subbing layer and a slipping layer, and wherein the subbing layer has antistatic properties and comprises a mixture of 1) a polymer having a molecular weight of at least about 100,000 and containing at least 25 wt. % of a repeating unit containing an alkylene oxide segment, and 2) a copolymer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: A represents units of an addition polymerizable monomer containing at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups;