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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:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenji Shinozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Hirano, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukichi Murata, Kanagawa, JP;
Mio Ishida, Kanagawa, JP;
Miyuki Kuromiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
503227 ; 428195 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer recording material for use in a recording apparatus in which the thermal transfer recording material is introduced into a transfer section having a porous structure by an effect of capillarity, subjected to a state transformation by heating, and then transferred to a recording medium disposed in an opposed relation to the transfer section, comprising: