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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:
Dec. 23, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideki Suematsu, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Fujicopian Co., Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428484 ; 428195 ; 4284881 ; 4284884 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer recording medium comprising a foundation, and a filling ink layer provided on the foundation, the filling ink layer being thermally transferred onto a receptor in advance of formation of a print image thereon, the filling ink layer comprising a release layer, a transfer layer having a high melt viscosity and an adhesive layer which three layers are stacked in this order on the foundation, with use of the recording medium, the surface of a receptor paper that is significantly uneven can be changed to a flat one by a single thermal transfer operation, and print images of high quality can be formed by transferring a colored ink layer onto the flat surface.