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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:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
May. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaaki Takama, Toyonaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399342 ; 430 97 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus and an image forming method including a first process in which a resin-formed image is formed on a recording medium, and a second process in which the image formed on the recording medium is brought into contact with a solution containing a plasticizer which plasticizes the resin contained in the image.