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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Kent R. Struble, Woodbury, MN (US);
David J. Mcdaniel, Vdnais Heights, MN (US);
Duane A. Preszler, River Falls, WI (US);
Paul Stelzig, Ham Lake, MN (US);
Kent R. Struble, Woodbury, MN (US);
David J. McDaniel, Vdnais Heights, MN (US);
Duane A. Preszler, River Falls, WI (US);
Paul Stelzig, Ham Lake, MN (US);
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A thermal processor including an oven and a cooling section. The oven is configured to heat an imaging media to a development temperature. The cooling section is configured to cool the imaging media from the development temperature to a desired exit temperature as imaging media moves along a transport path from an entrance to an exit. The cooling section provides a varying rate of heat transfer from the imaging media along the transport path so as to create a varying cooling temperature gradient in the imaging media substantially equal to and not exceeding a varying maximum cooling temperature gradient of imaging media.