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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:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
503227 ; 428195 ; 428480 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer sheet includes a support and, provided thereon, at least a yellow dye-holding layer, a magenta dye-holding layer, and a cyan dye-holding layer, the dye-holding layers each including a thermal transfer dye and a binder resin, the yellow dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 1 and/or a dye represented by the following formula 2, the magenta dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 3 and at least one dye selected from those represented by the following formulae 4 and 5; and the cyan dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 6: ##STR1##