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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:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yorihiro Yamaya, Hino, JP;
Shigeru Mano, Hino, JP;
Kaori Fukumuro, Hino, JP;
Hiroshi Watanabe, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/32 ;
Abstract
In an image forming method in that an image-receiving layer of an image-receiving element is in contact with an ink sheet comprising a thermally transferable dye, and the dye is transferred to the image-receiving layer in accordance with imagewise-heating by a thermal head, the image-receiving layer having dye image formed by dye transfer is subjected to re-heating through a thin film material by thermal head.