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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:
Jan. 07, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
40012001 ; 347171 ; 347203 ;
Abstract
A wear-resistant protective film for thermal printing heads comprising Si, O, and N as principal constituent elements, contains additionally at least one alkaline earth metal selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Ra. Preferably, the film has a composition SiM.sub.x O.sub.y N.sub.z in which M stands for an alkaline earth metal, x is 0.01-0.5, y is 0.1-2.0, and z is 0.2-1.8.