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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442486 | Radiation-sensitive compositions comprising oxazole derivatives and imageable elements based thereon Radiation-sensitive element comprising: (a) one or more types of monomers each comprising at least one ethylenically unsaturated group accessible to a free-radical polymerization, (b) at least one sensitizer, (c) at least one coinitiator capable of forming free radi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7375150 | Anti-static composition and method for production thereof An antistatic composition that is excellent in thermo stability, is free from the problem of bleeding-out, exhibits its effect independently of humidity, has immediate effectiveness, and also exhibits excellent and persistent antistatic properties, and a method for ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7286261 | Color calibration color value correction Correcting color values for color calibration is disclosed. A sensor measures a color calibration pattern output by a device, to color values for the patch. Corrective action(s) are then performed on the color values. A first such action corrects for measurement cor... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270919 | Use of transition metal compounds in imageable coatings A process for forming an image on a substrate, which comprises coating the substrate with an amine of molybdenum, tungsten or vanadium that changes colour on heating or irradiation as an aqueous dispersion or suspension or as a solution in an organic solvent. Also d... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7253213 | Anionic and Lewis base photopolymerization process and its use for making optical articles The invention relates to a process for polymerising a monomer, polymerizing and/or crosslinking an oligomer, or crosslinking a polymer or copolymer, said monomer, oligomer, polymer and copolymer being selected among precursor monomers, urethane, thiourethane and epi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7238543 | Methods for marking a bare semiconductor die including applying a tape having energy-markable properties A method used for marking a semiconductor wafer or device. The method and apparatus have particular application to wafers or devices which have been subjected to a thinning process, including backgrinding in particular. The present method comprises reducing the cros... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7227158 | Stick-on self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter A dual dosimeter system with (1) a stick-on, self-indicating, instant radiation dosimeter applied onto (2) a conventional radiation dosimeter and/or detector for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray, electrons and neutrons. Radiation dosimeters, such as ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7211374 | Thermally developable material package with dual indicator device A package of thermographic or photothermographic materials has a primary packaging enclosure, and optionally a secondary packaging enclosure, containing one or more of the materials (such as individual sheets). A non-photosensitive indicator device is associated wit... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207645 | Printer color correction Techniques are disclosed for performing color correction in a color printer. An RGB test image is printed to produce a printed calibration image. Colors in the printed calibration image are measured and compared to expected color values. A color corrector generates ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7192694 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material containing, on a substrate, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder in which the total silver iodide content of the photosensitive silver halide is 40 mol % or mor... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7183041 | Printing plate in the form of a roller and method for obtaining same The invention concerns a printing plate in the form of a roller and a method for obtaining same. Said method consists in producing on a first layer, at least a photopolymer film and in coiling said layers on themselves to form a roller. The invention is applicable i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7153637 | Radiographic image conversion panel A radiographic image conversion panel containing a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer formed by a vapor-accumulating method, wherein the phosphor layer has a thickness distribution of not more than ±20%, the thickness distribution being defined by the formul... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7144695 | Photothermographic material The invention relates to a photothermographic material, comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder on a same surface of a support, wherein the non-photosensitive organic silver salt is the non-... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7103242 | Photonic switch with bacterial protein A photonic switch for switching an incoming light beam from a first path to a second path, the photonic switch comprising a light sensitive material with a refractive index able to be changed by an induced light. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094618 | Methods for marking a packaged semiconductor die including applying tape and subsequently marking the tape The present invention provides a method and apparatus for marking a semiconductor wafer or device. The method and apparatus have particular application to wafers or devices which have been subjected to a thinning process, including backgrinding in particular. The pr... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7077896 | Pigment composition and use thereof in plastic A pigment composition composed of 50 to 95% by weight of a phthalocyanine, 1 to 45% by weight of a halogenated phthalocyanine of which the number of substituents of a halogen atom is 1 to 9 and the average number of the substituents is 2.0 to 4.0 and 0.1 to 10% by w... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068928 | Method and apparatus for photographically recording an image A photographic imaging apparatus includes a housing defining an interior cavity, an opening at one end of the housing to allow light to enter the interior cavity, and a photographic imaging substrate located within the interior cavity opposite from the opening for r... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6998072 | Photochromic polymerizable compositions Described is a polymerizable composition of a photochromic amount of at least one photochromic compound, at least one material having at least one carbonate group and at least one hydroxyl group, and at least one monoisocyanate containing material having at least on... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6962768 | Ether monomers and polymers having multi-ring structures, and photosensitive polymers and resist compositions obtained from the same Provided are a variety of monomers suitable of producing photosensitive polymers, that are in turn, useful in photoresist compositions, through radical (cationic) polymerization including at least one multi-ring alkenyl ethers and one α-fluorinated acrylate. The re... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6956984 | Light driven, integrated optical device A fully light-controllable integrated optical switch applicable in a slab geometry configuration includes a waveguide and an ad-medium in contact with the waveguide. The the ad-medium comprises a photochromic protein as a material of non-linear optical property, whe... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6924080 | Thermally sensitive compositions containing cyanoacrylate polymers The present invention provides a processless printing plate precursor including a thermally sensitive layer applied onto a substrate. The thermally sensitive layer includes polycyanoacrylate particles having a major dimension between about 50 and about 500 nm, and a... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6911485 | Anionic and Lewis base photopolymerization process and its use for making optical articles The invention relates to a process for polymerising a monomer, polymerizing and/or crosslinking a oligomer, or crosslinking a polymer or copolymer, said monomer, oligomer, polymer and copolymer being selected among precursor monomers, urethane, thiourethane and epis... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6890614 | Metal salt activators for use in leuco dye compositions Compositions and methods for production of color images using leuco dye-containing color forming compositions are described. The color forming composition can include a color forming leuco dye, a metal salt activator, a suppression agent configured for inhibiting th... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6881465 | Optical disk and method of manufacturing thereof An optical disk includes a first substrate provided with a first minute concaves/convexes forming a CD signal and a second substrate provided with a second minute concaves/convexes forming a DVD signal, and a wavelength selective multi-layered film is formed on the ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6869655 | Optical recording medium An optical recording medium in which deposition of impurities or damage to a surface of the medium illuminated by the light for signal recording and/or reproduction is to be prevented from occurring. An amine salt compound of perfluoropolyether having terminal carbo... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6844092 | Optically functional element and production method and application therefor The object of the present invention is to provide an optically functional element having a large change in refractive index with temperature change and a fast change rate in refractive index, a production method for the same and optical switch, temperature sensor an... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6808779 | High-density optical disk with a polymer film featuring thermochromism The present invention relates to a high-density optical disk having thin film layer made from a thermochromic polymer with a red-shift which exhibits self-focusing and optical bleaching. After an incident light beam passes through the polymer medium, not only can th... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6805922 | Mono-, oligo-and polyalkylidenefluorenes and their use as charge transport materials Conjugated mono-, oligo- and polyalkylidenefluorenes are suitable for use as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors, electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices. ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6706847 | Copolycarbonate compositions, and related articles and processes A thermoplastic composition is described, based on a copolycarbonate which includes at least two structural units. Structure I is usually a conventional carbonate based on bisphenol A, while structure II is a bisphenol carbonate which includes branched or linear gro... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6670096 | Base material for lithographic printing plate and lithographic printing plate using the same A base material for a lithographic printing plate comprising a support, a hydrophilic organic polymer compound that is chemically bonded to a surface of the support, and an ionic compound that is ionically bonded to the hydrophilic organic polymer compoun... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6653046 | Infrared sensitive coating liquid There are provided a coating liquid for providing an infrared sensitive layer on a photosensitive resin surface, which is obtained by dissolving or dispersing in a specific ester solvent a binder polymer soluble in the solvent, an infrared absorbing subst... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6639044 | Use of NIR (Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) in composite production A method for controlling the production of formaldehyde resin compositions in which formaldehyde takes part in a reaction with one or a combination of co resin forming material (of the type phenol, urea, melamine) the method includes monitoring at least o... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6593061 | Heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate, and substrate for the plate and method of producing the same Provided is a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate comprising a support having thereon an undercoat layer and a heat-sensitive layer in this order, with at least one of the undercoat layer and the heat-sensitive layer comprising polymer hollow micro... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6569597 | Thermal imaging composition and member and methods of imaging and printing An imaging member, such as a negative-working printing plate or on-press cylinder, has an imaging layer comprised of a thermally sensitive compound and a photothermal conversion material. The thermally sensitive compound comprises a heat-activatable aroma... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6524418 | Method of production of multilayer optical recording medium A method of production of a multilayer optical recording medium capable of avoiding difficulties in separating a stamper and forming a semi-transparent film on a thin flexible film and a production method thereof, comprising steps of forming a first optic... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6514632 | Fluorene-containing polymers and compounds useful in the preparation thereof A compound of the formula: ##STR1## and compounds of the formulas: ##STR2## wherein R1 is independently in each occurrence C1-20 hydrocarbyl or C1-20 hydrocarbyl containing one or more S, N, O, P or Si atoms, C4-... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6512083 | Fluorene-containing polymers and compounds useful in the preparation thereof A compound of the formula: ##STR1## and compounds of the formulas: ##STR2## wherein R1 is independently in each occurrence C1-20 hydrocarbyl or C1-20 hydrocarbyl containing one or more S, N, O, P or Si atoms, C4-... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6511782 | Heat sensitive element and a method for producing lithographic plates therewith According to the present invention there is provided a heat sensitive imaging element comprising on a lithographic base with a hydrophilic surface an image forming layer including thermoplastic particles of a homopolymer or a copolymer of styrene and a hy... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6500510 | Molecular level optical information storage devices The present invention relates to use of transition metal complexes in photochromic devices, to the production of optical information storage devices based on a polymeric matrix and on metal oxides with adsorbed transition metal complexes, to the productio... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6498226 | Cycloaliphatic polyimide, a method for producing the same, and its use This invention provides cycloaliphatic polyimide having the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein 1 and n are integers from 4 to 7; m is an integer from 0 to 2; p is an integer from 1 to 8; polycyclic aliphatic compound R reprents C1-8 c... | 12/24/2002 |
