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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:
Jul. 11, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Raymond J Adamic, Corvallis, OR (US);
Garold E Radke, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
106 / ; 106 / ;
Abstract
Wet cockle is minimized in aqueous-based, thermal ink-jet inks by adding to the ink at least one water-soluble substance, such as a solvent or salt, having a molecular weight of less than 200 grams/mole in an amount sufficient to reduce the mole fraction of water to a maximum value of about 0.5. Addition of the substance reduces wet paper cockle to a value that is less than the distance between the thermal ink-jet pen and the paper, thereby preventing a crash condition between the paper and the pen.