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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. 27, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Karen M Kosydar, Penfield, NY (US);
Stephen M Neumann, Rochester, NY (US);
Robert G Spahn, Webster, NY (US);
Edward P Otocka, Pittsford, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
503227 ; 428195 ; 428209 ; 428480 ; 428702 ; 428704 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof, in order, a subbing layer and a dye layer, and wherein the subbing layer comprises a vacuum-deposited metal oxide, and wherein either a) an infrared-absorbing material is contained in the dye layer or a layer associated therewith, or b) the other side of the support has a slipping layer thereon.