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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2008
Liviu Dinescu, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Kai LI, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Dong-tsai Hseih, Arcadia, CA (US);
Ekaterina Vaskova, Woodside, CA (US);
Haochuan Wang, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Christine Dang, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Zhisong Huang, San Dimas, CA (US);
James Johnson, Orange, CA (US);
Liviu Dinescu, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Kai Li, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Dong-Tsai Hseih, Arcadia, CA (US);
Ekaterina Vaskova, Woodside, CA (US);
Haochuan Wang, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Christine Dang, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Zhisong Huang, San Dimas, CA (US);
James Johnson, Orange, CA (US);
Avery Dennison Corporation, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A heat-transfer imaging system and a method of using the same. The heat-transfer imaging system includes a heat-transfer sheet and an activating ink. The heat-transfer sheet and the activating ink are specially formulated so that only the areas of the heat-transfer sheet onto which the ink has been printed become adhesive under heat-transfer conditions. This effect may be achieved by designing the sheet to include an ink-receptive coating whose melting temperature is higher than that typically encountered during normal heat-transfer conditions and by formulating the activating ink to include a plasticizer that, when printed onto the ink-receptive coating, lowers the melting temperature of the ink-receptive coating sufficiently so that the modified melting temperature falls within the temperature range encountered during heat-transfer.