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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:
May. 02, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shahram Hejazi, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250588 ;
Abstract
A storage phosphor imaging system has at least two pairs of erase lights and an erase light failure detection circuit. When none of the erase lights are failed, the storage phosphor is erased for a predetermined time. When failure of one of the pairs of erase lights is detected, the storage phosphor is erased for an additional time. When more than one pair fails, the storage phosphor is erased for no more than the predetermined time and the additional time, then the storage phosphor is moved to the loading station, and the user is prompted that the storage phospor may not be fully erased.