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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:

Kouya Kawabata, Shizuoka-ken, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/315 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/315 ;
Abstract

In a packaging body, an ink sheet or an image receiving sheet for laser heat transfer recording is wound onto a winding core and a flange is mounted to at least one end portion of the winding core and the packaging body is packaged into a packing material such as a carton box or the like. In the image forming method, the ink sheet and the image receiving sheet which are respectively wound up in rolls, are taken out from the packaging bodies, loaded onto rack(s), and then respectively pulled out from the rack(s). The ink sheet and the image receiving sheet are irradiated image-wise with a laser in a state in which they are superposed to thereby form an image.


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