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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2002
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The problem of the present invention is to clear the packaging material and the presence/absence detecting method of the residual photothermographic image recording sheet, which are improved so that the concave section or the notched section provided on the bottom plate does not exercise a bad influence, caused by the exhalation of the organic solvent, on the recording sheet stacked on the lowermost position. Packaging material of the recording sheets, having a detecting means of the recording sheet, wherein there is provided the concave section or the notched section on a section where a part of a vacuum head comes into contact with a bottom plate located on a bottom section of the packaging material, and wherein there is arranged a filler formed with a soft material having air permeability and neither absorbs nor transmits organic solvent, in the concave section or the notched section.