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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. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideyuki Koguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ; G03B 1/300 ; H05B 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ; G03B 1/300 ; H05B 3/00 ;
Abstract
A heating apparatus which forms an image by heating a sheet-form material carrying image data. The heating apparatus comprises a heater, which is disposed at an axial center portion of the sheet-form material, for directly heating the sheet-form material to a temperature suitable for heat developing processing, and rings or a cylinder for rotating and allowing the sheet-form material to be exposed to the heater. The sheet-form material can be rotated on either an inner or outer surface of the rings or an inner surface of the cylinder. In addition, a plurality of rings can be used which correspond to differing widths of sheet-form material.