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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. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew F Kurtz, Rochester, NY (US);
Sanwal P Sarraf, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347239 ; 347244 ;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus for a laser thermal printer (1) provides 100% fill at a media plane (60). The imaging apparatus (10) comprises a laser array (12), and focuses it on a modulator lenslet array (30). The illumination optics (13) combines light from each diode laser (14) in modulator lenslet array (30) and focuses light onto modulator sites (42) on the modulator array (40), with less than 100% fill. A printing lens (50) focuses an image of the modulator lenslet array onto a media plane (60) at essentially 100% fill.