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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2009
Applicants:
David H. Pan, Rochester, NY (US);
T. Edwin Freeman, Woodstock, NY (US);
Inventors:
David H. Pan, Rochester, NY (US);
T. Edwin Freeman, Woodstock, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/00 (2006.01); C23F 1/00 (2006.01); G03F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This is structure and method for providing a textured surfaced that can be used in a plurality of systems including ink jet printing. In ink jet printing, the textured surface of this invention controls ink drawback and significantly improves image quality. The textured surface has an average roughness, R, of about 0.2 to 1.5 microns, a texture density of about 10-10pits per cm, a texture size of about 0.5-5 microns, and a texture depth of about 0.5-10 microns.