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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7184193 | Systems and methods for amorphous flexures in micro-electro mechanical systems A micro-electro mechanical system includes a flexure, wherein the flexure is made of an amorphous material. Similarly, a method for forming a micro-electro mechanical system includes forming a substrate, and forming an amorphous flexure, the amorphous flexure being ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7182008 | Sheet material cutting method for cutting thermal imaging material A decurl apparatus includes a heating device to heat an image recording carrier web at a constant temperature, which exceeds the glass transition temperature of a support for a constant time period; and a cooling device for subsequent cooling of the image recording ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7025499 | Device for testing a material that changes shape when an electric and/or magnetic field is applied A device for testing a material that changes shape when an electric and/or magnetic field is applied, in particular a piezoactive material, having a generator to generate an electric field and/or a magnetic field is described. This permits a rapid characterization o... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6998197 | Device for registration of optical holograms on the amorphous molecular semiconductor films This invention relates to the field of holography, in particular to a method and a device for recording optical holograms by means of amorphous molecular semiconductor (AMS) films deposited on a glass substrate pre-covered with a transparent electric conducting sub-... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998195 | Device for registration of optical holograms on the amorphous molecular semiconductor films This invention relates to the field of holography, in particular to a method and a device for recording optical holograms by means of amorphous molecular semiconductor (AMS) films deposited on a glass substrate pre-covered with a transparent electric conducting sub-... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6943933 | MEM devices having charge induced via focused beam to enter different states An apparatus of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that includes a number of micro-electromechanical (MEM) devices, a charge source, and at least one discharge path. Each MEM device has a plurality of different states based on a charge induced thereon. The... | 09/13/2005 |
| 5672453 | Frost image recording medium and method of and apparatus for forming and reading frost image An electrode 2c and a pinene polymer recording layer 2a with a molecular weight of 500 to 10000 are successively stacked on a substrate 2c, as shown in FIG. 3. By carrying out thermal development, information electric charge that is formed on the resin su... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5643703 | Hydroxygallium phthalocyanine crystal, process for preparing same, and electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising same A hydroxygallium phthalocyanine crystal, having distinct diffraction peaks at Bragg angles (20+/-0.2°) of 7.0°, 13.4°, 16.6°, 26.0° and 26.7° to CuK characteristic X-ray in X-ray diffraction spectrum; a process for preparing the hydroxyg... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5521040 | Frost image recording medium and method of and apparatus for forming and reading frost image An electrode 2c and a pinene polymer recording layer 2a with a molecular weight of 500 to 10000 are successively stacked on a substrate 2c, as shown in FIG. 3. By carrying out thermal development, information electric charge that is formed on the resin su... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5378565 | Frost image recording medium and method of and apparatus for forming and reading frost image An electrode 2c and a pinene polymer recording layer 2a with a molecular weight of 500 to 10000 are successively stacked on a substrate 2c, as shown in FIG. 3 . By carrying out thermal development, information electric charge that is formed on the resin s... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5368985 | Bisacylphosphine sulfides Bisacylphosphine sulfides of formula I ##STR1## wherein R1 is unsubstituted C1 -C18 or C1 -C8 alkyl which is substituted by phenyl, --CN, C1 -C12 alkoxy or halogen, C2 | 11/29/1994 |
| 5076990 | Method for recording and erasing a visible image on a card A method for recording and erasing a visible image on a card having a recording area with a smooth surface of a synthetic resin, which includes a step of subjecting the smooth surface in the recording area to frosting treatment at a temperature within a r... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5013624 | Glassy metal oxide layers for photoreceptor applications An electrophotographic imaging member has a metal oxide hole blocking layer in the form of a film of an inorganic glassy network. The metal oxide hole blocking layer may be bonded to a conductive layer of the imaging member.... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4695528 | Process for forming images using body with reversible fixable and temperature-variable light extinctions In order to be able, in a simple manner, to erase, by heating, data recorded on bodies with reversible, temperature-variable light extinctions, and then to be able to use the body anew for the recording of data, these bodies consists of at least one polym... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4583833 | Optical recording using field-effect control of heating To form an optical image, an imagewise pattern of conductivity is formed in a semiconductor material. Exposing the material to an intense radio-frequency field causes generation of heat in the conductive areas. The semiconductor is made of a heat-sensitiv... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4397930 | Record carrier for deformation images The record carrier according to the invention comprises a substrate on which an electrode is provided which, on the side remote from the substrate, has a low-ohmic photoconductive layer which is covered with a second transparent electrode which is provide... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4282294 | Polyvinyl blocking layer for preventing charge injection in a thermoplastic photoconductive device for holography Charge leakage can occur at a photoconductor-conductor electrode interface of a thermoplastic photoconductive holographic recording medium. This reduces the charge contrast and causes poor performance of the thermoplastic-photoconductive device. In the pr... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4282295 | Element for thermoplastic recording In a thermoplastic-photoconductor holographic recording medium in the form of several transparent layers over a transparent substrate, such as an optically transparent electrically conductive layer, then a photoconductor layer and a thermoplastic layer ov... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4233380 | Process for shaping a thermoplastic layer This invention relates to a process for shaping a recording produced on a material including a photoconductive, thermoplastic layer disposed on a carrier by electrostatic charging and exposure to light, which process comprises disposing the said material ... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4202693 | Recording material having intersecting conductive strips and apertured spacing means Disclosed is a recording material comprising a first transparent, dielectric support member having on one surface thereof a plurality of first elongated, electrically conductive regions extending adjacent one another in spaced relationship; a layer compri... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4173480 | Photographic sheet with synthetic hectorite antistatic additive as sizing or backcoat Sheet material having a polymeric surface for receiving a photographic image, the material comprising an antistatic agent which is a synthetic hectorite clay having a layered structure the layers of which are electrically charged.... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4163667 | Deformable imaging member used in electro-optic imaging system Electro-optic imaging members including photoconductive material, a deformable elastomer layer and a thin, flexible conductive metallic layer are described. The metallic layer comprises titanium and silver. Methods for forming the metallic layer and imagi... | 08/07/1979 |
| 4131795 | Instant radiation image display element An instant image display element for X-rays or the like comprises a laminate of an optically transparent plate 3, an optically transparent electrode 4, a deformable elastomer layer 5, a flexible insulating mirror film 6, an ionizable liquid 7 which absorb... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4109316 | Method and apparatus for inverting the polarity of an input image formed on a surface of an image recording device Method and apparatus for inverting the polarity of an input image formed on a surface of an image recording device which deforms when illuminated in the presence of an electrostatic field applied thereacross. The image recording device, comprising a layer... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4105323 | Process and apparatus for recording deformation images A method and apparatus are disclosed for recording information by deformation on a recording material having a photoconductive thermoplastic layer supported by a flexible transparent backing layer, characterized by the provision of electrostatic attractio... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4089684 | Imaging method utilizing the chemical reactivity of donor-acceptor mixtures Disclosed is an imaging method based upon the selective exposure of a select pair of photoactive materials to actinic radiation. According to this method, charge exchange between materials of a photosensitive mixture results in the selective decomposition... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4077803 | Low charge-voltage frost recording on a photosensitive thermoplastic medium A method and apparatus are provided for achieving substantially uniform charging of a single layer thermoplastic recording surface in either a positive or negative sense to a potential just below the frost threshold level, for exposing the thermoplastic s... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4065308 | Deformation imaging element A deformation imaging system including an imaging member comprising a layer of a surface deformable material, a layer of an elastomer material, and means for establishing an imagewise electrical field across at least the surface deformable material layer ... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4047238 | Apparatus and process for electrostatically charging a recording material Disclosed is a process and, to implement the process, an electrostatic charging apparatus comprising means for producing a corona discharge; a counter-electrode positioned below the discharge means adapted for supporting a recording material to be charged... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4032338 | Holographic recording medium employing a photoconductive layer and a low molecular weight microcrystalline polymeric layer A holographic recording medium comprising a conductive substrate, a photoconductive layer and an electrically alterable layer of a linear, low molecular weight hydrocarbon polymer has improved fatigue resistance. An acrylic barrier layer can be interposed... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4023969 | Deformable elastomer imaging member employing an internal opaque deformable metallic layer An imaging system comprising an imaging member including a deformable metallic layer arranged between a pair of deformable layers, at least one of which comprises an elastomer material. In operation an electrical field is established across the deformable... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4021236 | Imaging system A deformation imaging system including an imaging member comprising a layer of a surface deformable material, a layer of an elastomer material, and means for establishing an imagewise electrical field across at least the surface deformable material layer ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4018603 | Deformation imaging system using thermoplastic and elastomeric layers A deformation imaging system including an imaging member comprising a layer of a surface deformable material, a layer of an elastomer material, and means for establishing an imagewise electrical field across at least the surface deformable material layer ... | 04/19/1977 |
| 3999988 | Method for real-time color masking A method of real-time color masking is disclosed wherein pairs of color filters are inserted at specific locations in the optical paths of an electro-optical image multiplication system to thereby produce a modulated radiation pattern representative of th... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3997243 | Color image reproduction system A color image reproduction system wherein there are recorded in superimposition on an imaging member a plurality of images respectively corresponding to the color content of different colors of an original image. Each recorded image is in the form of a su... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3992090 | Optical apparatus for selectively producing rippled message images in areas of specular surfaced photoplastic film and erasing such images from such areas for reuse Camera and imaging processing apparatus for producing rippled message images in frame areas of specular surfaced photoplastic film having a conductive substrate below an upper heat-softenable and image rippleable emulsion layer. Images are formed by image... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3982939 | Multiple layer migration imaging system Images are formed with imaging members comprising one or more migration layers and a softenable layer which may be a circulation layer. An electrical latent image is created on the member with electrostatic charge having a density sufficient to cause migr... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3982936 | Deformation imaging system An imaging member comprising an overlayer of material preferably photosensitive, on a softenable, electrostatically deformable layer is imaged by frost or relief wrinkling the deformable layer. In a preferred mode, where the overlayer is photosensitive, w... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3980476 | Imaging system There is disclosed an imaging system for forming a plurality of images on the same surface, at least one of which is permanent and one of which is erasable. The imaging system includes an electro-optic imaging member which has a "built-in" master image.... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3973958 | Method including exposure of deformation imaging member through lenticular lens element A method is set forth for increasing the sensitivity and speed of a deformation imaging system. A lenticular lens array is interpositioned between the deformation imaging member and the imaging lens to thereby focus the radiation into a sharp relatively h... | 08/10/1976 |
