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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:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hideki Usuki, Tokyo-To, JP;
Hitoshi Saito, Tokyo-To, JP;
Takeshi Takada, Tokyo-To, JP;
Shino Takao, Tokyo-To, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M 5/035 ; B41M 5/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M 5/035 ; B41M 5/38 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer dye image-receiving sheet is provided which can form high-quality color images by a thermal transfer method. The thermal transfer dye image-receiving sheet comprises: a substrate sheet; and a dye-receptive layer provided on at least one side of the substrate sheet, the dye-receptive layer containing at least a caprolactone-modified cellulose, the cellulose comprising at least a cellulose acetate component.