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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald Erik Hauptmann, Bammental, DE;
Assignee:
NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
Abstract
A process for heating at least one second material layer ( ), especially a toner layer which has been transferred to an image receiver substrate. Energy delivery from electromagnetic and/or acoustic waves ( ) is incident from a first material layer ( ) at an angle of incidence (&agr;) relative to the normal ( ) of the second material layer ( ). The angle of incidence (&agr;) is chosen such that the energy delivery which causes at least the heating of the second material layer ( ) takes place at least predominantly via the quantum tunnel effect.