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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. 12, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
503227 ; 428195 ; 428211 ; 4283044 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet having a substrate composed of paper or a paper-containing laminate is free from surface undulations or irregularities extending over several millimeters or more related to appearance and quality, has excellent printability, and gives high smoothness and a quality appearance. Concretely, a substrate 1 is composed of paper with an average area per flock of 6 mm.sup.2 or less, and a coloring material receptive layer 2 is formed on the substrate to constitute a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet 10. A resin layer 4 having fine voids inside is provided at least on the surface of the substrate 1 on the side where the coloring material receptive layer 2 is laminated.