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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7579125 | Imaging member An imaging member has a crosslinked overcoat layer which holds fluorinated nanoparticles. The overcoat layer is formed from an overcoat solution comprising a polymer binder; a hole transport molecule; fluorinated nanoparticles; a fluorinated surfactant; a crosslinki... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7320936 | Plating of multi-layer structures An insulating layer (5) and a conductive seed layer (6) are applied to a substrate (1) in a simple process. A photo resist with palladium chloride are provided in a bath for electrophoretic deposition onto the substrate. The photo resist is an i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7301066 | Method of making and using nanoscale metal Methods of treating ground water and methods for reducing contaminants (e.g., chlorinated compounds in contaminated ground water) to harmless compounds in the presence of an elemental metal treatment composition. Said methods comprise injecting a treatment solution ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297454 | Colorless inkjet ink compositions for improved image quality A colorless ink jet ink composition is provided for printers for printing on both porous and hybrid glossy or semi-glossy media. The ink composition comprises a water soluble polymer or dispersed latex. The ink formulation provides substantially air fast, stain resi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7288347 | Method of applying spot varnish to xerographic image and emulsion aggregation toners for use therein A method of forming a xerographic image having at least one portion with a gloss different from a gloss of another portion of the xerographic image includes xerographically forming a toner image on a surface of a substrate and forming a finish over the toner image a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7267913 | Recording material and image forming method An image forming method is disclosed, comprising (a) imagewise exposing a recording material comprising on a support an image forming layer containing colored electrophoretic particles and a photopolymerizable compositon to light to perform photocuring and (b) apply... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7244540 | Liquid toners comprising amphipathic copolymeric binder having insoluble components in the shell portion thereof The invention provides liquid electrographic toner compositions comprising a liquid carrier having toner particles dispersed in the liquid carrier. The liquid carrier has a Kauri-Butanol number less than about 30 mL. The toner particles comprise polymeric binder com... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7226550 | Electrophoretic dispersions This invention relates to electrophoretic displays having improved performance. The threshold promoter of the present invention may induce or significantly enhance the threshold effect by improving the particle-particle interaction and/or the particle-electrode inte... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7160963 | Toner fuser member with release layer formed from silsesquioxane-epoxy resin composition A toner fuser member contains a substrate on which is disposed a toner release surface layer formed from a composition that includes a silsesquioxane and a curable epoxy resin. On curing, the composition forms an interpenetrating polymer network of the silsesquioxan... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7050146 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method An immersion lithographic apparatus includes a voltage generator or power source that applies a potential difference to an object in contact with the immersion liquid such that bubbles and/or particles in the immersion liquid are either attracted or repelled from th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7033713 | Electrographic patterning of conductive electrode layers containing electrically-conductive polymeric materials A method for producing an electrode pattern in a conductive polymeric layer comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a charge pattern with an electrographic developer composition comprising a carrier and marking particles having a polarity opposite that of said charg... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6923923 | Metallic nanoparticle cluster ink and method for forming metal pattern using the same Disclosed are a metallic nanoparticle cluster ink and a method for forming a conductive metal pattern using the cluster ink. The metallic nanoparticle cluster ink comprises colloidal metallic nanoparticles and a bifunctional compound. The conductive metal pattern is... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6207331 | Aqueous image recording method for electrochemically depositing an image forming material The image recording process comprises the steps of preparing an aqueous coloring material liquid by dissolving or dispersing fine particles of a coloring material in an aqueous liquid, disposing an image supporting member and a counter electrode opposite ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6165698 | Method for forming image having protective layer thereon A method for forming an image having a protective layer is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of forming an image comprising a support having thereon an image comprising a layer comprising a binder and a colorant having a thickness of t1, pro... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5876847 | Reusable printing sheet A coated substrate having a material substrate, and a coating composition fixed to a surface of the material substrate as a surface layer, the surface layer containing a hydrophilic resin which swells water but is not washed off by water, and which is sol... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5872883 | Curved optical waveguide and method of manufacturing the same The present invention provides a curved optical waveguide with reduced loss. Particularly, it relates to a waveguide with rectangular cross-section which has a curved portion, wherein the relation between the width D of the waveguide at the curved portion... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5872076 | Method for reusing image recording materials and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reusing an image recording material wherein a releasing property is imparted to at least substrate surface of an image recording material on which an image has been formed of an image forming mat... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5769935 | Use of fluorocarbons as a fusing agent for toners in laser printers A method and composition for fusing toner to paper using hydrofluorocarbons or perfluorinated C1 -C4 alkyl alkyl ethers as a toner fusing agent in a cold fusion process. The composition utilizes a uniform mixture of at least one chlo... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5679462 | Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus for fixing image on a recording sheet or film comprises a fixing roller having a surface comprising a fluororesin and contacting with a toner, a heating means for heating said fixing roller, a rotating pressing roller urged against said... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5487801 | Pre-proof temperature controlling assembly The present invention relates to a pre-proof temperature controlling assembly associated with an off-press apparatus for laminating an image sheet to an image receiving substrate and, more particularly, for laminating a plurality of image sheets to the re... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5390013 | Ultrasonic fusing (ultra-fuse) process An ultrasonic fuser for fixing toner images to substrates utilizes an acoustic transducer or resonator in the form of an ultrasonic welding horn and a viscoelastic member. As toner images carried on a substrate are moved between the resonator and the visc... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5339147 | Sequential ultrasonic fusing process Ultrasonic fusing is performed sequentially by generating heat in an external fusing member (i.e. fuser roll surface) by ultrasonic absorption and then contacting unfused toner images with the heated member as they pass through a fusing nip comprising the... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5322751 | Method of making metallic coatings A metallic toner fluid composition that contains (A) electrostatically charged, colloidal elemental metal particles dispersed in an electrically nonconductive organic carrier liquid having a dielectric constant less than about 3.5 and a volume resistivity... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5200284 | Melamine-cured polyester-amide coated articles useful as toner fusing members Toner fusing members coated with melamine-cured polyester-amide compositions are obtained wherein the polyester-amide component is a copolymer of one or more organic dicarboxylic acids with 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane and an aminoalkyl-termi... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5189478 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus, including means for controlling the charge on a transfer medium An image forming apparatus wherein toner images formed on a photosensitive member are transferred to a transfer medium and overlaid thereon, and the toner images on the transfer medium are transferred onto a copy sheet. The apparatus has a charger for red... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5171652 | Image-forming process and magnetic developing sleeve for use in carrying out the same In forming an image by the simultaneous light exposure-transfer process using a photosensitive toner, a light-exposed electricity-removed toner is effectively scraped without bad influences on the image density, and the fog density is drastically reduced.... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5119140 | Process for obtaining very high transfer efficiency from intermediate to paper Method and apparatus wherein very efficient transfer of low toner masses from an intermediate image receiving member without degradation of high toner mass transfer is effected by using a DC pretransfer corotron treatment of the toner on the intermediate ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 4997697 | Transparencies A transparent substrate material for receiving or containing an image and comprised of a supporting substrate base, an antistatic polymer layer coated on one or both sides of the substrate and comprised of hydrophilic cellulosic components, and a toner re... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4931351 | Bilayer lithographic process A method for producing high resolution patterned resist images having excellent etch resistance and superior thermal and dimensional stability comprises the steps of: (a) forming a planarizing layer resistant to silicon uptake on a substrate; (b) providing a p... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4793255 | Electrostatic pick-up onto and retention of permanent master on a flexible web Apparatus and a method of using that apparatus to electrostatically pickup and retain a master onto a dielectric substrate is provided. The dielectric substrate can be a flexible web with a conductive coating applied to one surface on which the master is ... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4701390 | Thermally stabilized photoresist images Photo resist image layers, particularly those used for high resolution geometries in microelectronic applications, are stabilized against distortion or degradation by the heat generated during subsequent etching, ion implantation processes and the like, b... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4687971 | Power supply for discharge lamp A power supply circuit comprises a single discharge capacitor having a charging sufficient to trigger discharge in a discharge lamp. The discharge capacitor is associated with means for accumulating energy, with which it is charged. The energy accumulatin... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4666801 | Method and apparatus for forming a toner image in electrophotographic printing An electrophotographic printing apparatus employs a laminated, photosensitive medium including transparent supporting and conducting layers and a photosensitive layer defining the top surface of the medium, on which a toner image is formed. A first develo... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4666577 | Method of recording electrophoretic image pattern In a method of printing on a test report a pattern of fraction images of various kinds of proteins contained in a serum sample, an electrophoretic signal obtained by photoelectrically scanning a substrate bearing electrophoretic images is sampled to deriv... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4634257 | Electrostatic printing method An electrostatic printing method is disclosed which improves the print quality by using an infrared or a flash fixing method followed by a charge recovery step whereby the image region potential of the printing master is increased by subjecting the master... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4610939 | Method and apparatus for the transfer of an electrostatically deposited toner image Method and apparatus for transferring an electrostatically deposited electrophoretic toner image including the step of transferring image-wise deposited toner particles dispersed in a stratum of carrier liquid having a volume resistivity of at least 10 | 09/09/1986 |
| 4499166 | Method of developing an electrostatic latent image uses magnetic developer A developer mixture used in an electrophotographic printing machine to develop an electrostatic latent image recorded on the photoconductive member includes weakly magnetically attractable toner particles and strongly magnetically attractable carrier gran... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4495264 | Electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising disazo compound An electrophotographic photosensitive member and use thereof, having a photosensitive layer upon or over an electrically conductive substrate, the photosensitive layer comprising an organic photoconductive material selected from the group consisting of th... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4412050 | Linear polymers from blocked vinyl biphenyl compounds The present invention relates to vinyl biphenyl compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein one of R1 and R2 is vinyl and the other is hydrogen, and the cyclic moiety A is a -2,5-, -2,3-, or -3,4- di-OR-1-phenyl moiety wherein R i... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4396273 | Transfer unit for electrophotographic copying machine A transfer unit includes a pair of guide and field stabilizer members disposed adjacent to a transfer member and along a conveying path for a transfer sheet. A voltage is applied to the stabilizer members which is of the same polarity as a bias voltage ap... | 08/02/1983 |
