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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7427467 | Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material comprising a support having: (i) a photosensitive layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains, an organic silver salt and a reducing agent for silver ions on one side of the support; and (ii) a backing l... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7384732 | Method of manufacturing a photothermographic material by aqueous coating and a photothermographic material prepared therewith The invention provides a method of manufacturing a photothermographic material excellent in coating stability with less haze in images, wherein the photothermographic material has, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photo... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7367592 | Marking substance and security markings for testing the authenticity of documents The invention relates to a marking substance for security documents of the kind difficult to discern by counterfeiters. The preferred marking substance is polyethylene dioxythiophene polystyrene sulfonate and, more particularly, PEDT/PSS of the CPP105 formulation. | 05/06/2008 |
| 7306900 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising at least one layer containing at least one compound selected from a group consisting of the following type 1 and type 2, and at least one layer containing at least one fluorine compound represented by the foll... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7258970 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material of the present invention comprises: a support; a photosensitive silver halide; a non-photosensitive organic silver salt; a heat developer; a binder; and a fluorine compound containing a specific structure. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258968 | Thermally developable materials with buried conductive backside coatings Thermally developable materials including photothermographic and thermographic materials having a buried conductive backside layer comprising one or more binder polymers, and an antistatic compound that is an organic solvent soluble alkali metal salt of any of a per... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7229738 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which contains a fluorine compound having two or more fluorinated alkyl groups having two or more carbon atoms and 11 or less fluori... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7172855 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and package thereof Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having a layer containing a compound of the following formula and a fluorine compound, and has a gamma of 5.0 or more for the optical density range of 0.3 to 3.0: | 02/06/2007 |
| 7163734 | Patterning of electrically conductive layers by ink printing methods An element comprising a support on which is disposed an organic electroconductive polymeric layer containing a conductive polymer such that when a printing solution containing a conductivity enhancing agent contacts said electroconductive layer, the resistivity of t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7163746 | Conductive polymers on acicular substrates The present invention relates to an electronically conductive particle comprising an acicular substrate in contact with an electronically conductive polymer. Another embodiment comprises an article comprising electronically conductive particles comprising an acicula... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7153620 | Transparent invisible conductive grid The present invention relates to an antistatic article comprising a substrate or support having thereon at least one antistatic layer, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a conductive material having areas of patterned coverage. The present invention also relates... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153636 | Thermally developable materials with abrasion-resistant backside coatings Thermally developable materials including photothermographic and thermographic materials have an outermost backside layer that includes a combination of a polysiloxane and a smectite clay that has been modified with a quaternary ammonium compound. The resulting oute... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151137 | Acryloyldimethyltaurine acid-based grafted copolymers The invention provides water-soluble or water-swellable copolymers obtained by free-radical copolymerization of A) acryloyldimethyltaurine and/or acryloyldimethyltaurates, B) if desired, one or more other olefinically unsaturated, optionall... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7147998 | Thermally developable materials containing anionic polymer overcoat Thermally developable imaging materials have an outermost protective layer that is composed of one or more hydrophilic film-forming components. The predominant film-forming component is a negatively-charged latex polymer that has negatively-charged ionic groups othe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145464 | Data collection device In one aspect of the invention a data collection device is provided for use with a medium said medium being usable when exposed to electromagnetic radiation that is characteristic of such use. The data collection device has a sensor capable of sensing when the mediu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144525 | Elastic member of semiconductive polymer and OA equipment using the same An elastic member of a semiconductive polymer comprising a conductive composition containing a conductive polymer and binder polymer, wherein the elastic member satisfies both characteristics of (A) a variation of 1.5 digit or less between the electrical resistance ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7115359 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material having a support provided on at least one side of the support light-sensitive silver halide particles, an organic silver salt and a reducing agent, as well as a leuco dye of a specific structure and a compound of a specific structure. | 10/03/2006 |
| 7105285 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide color photosensitive material comprises a blue-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer, a red-sensitive layer and a non-light-sensitive layer on a support. The silver halide color photosensitive material contains a compound selected from the followi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7105288 | Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive emulsion containing a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the photothermographic mater... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7105579 | Method for controlling the stability of emulsions The invention concerns a method for controlling the stability of an emulsion comprising a hydrophobic phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, or an aqueous phase dispersed in a hydrophobic phase, and less than 4% by weight of a surfactant, said process comprising the s... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7087351 | Antistatic layer for electrically modulated display The present invention relates to a display comprising at least one substrate having at least one electrically modulated imaging layer thereon, at least one patterned electrically conductive layer, and at least one antistatic layer. ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083885 | Transparent invisible conductive grid The present invention relates to an antistatic article comprising a substrate or support having thereon at least one antistatic layer, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a conductive material having areas of patterned coverage. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077983 | Polymer nanocomposites for lithium battery applications A single ion-conducting nanocomposite of a substantially amorphous polyethylene ether and a negatively charged synthetic smectite clay useful as an electrolyte. Excess SiO2 improves conductivity and when combined with synthetic hectorite forms superior me... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7074551 | Imaging material with improved mechanical properties The present invention relates to an imaging element comprising at least one imaging layer and a support wherein the support comprises at least one layer comprising a splayant and a layered material, wherein the layered material has an aspect ratio from 20:1 and 500:... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7040929 | Surfactants for use in substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials A substantially light-insensitive monosheet thermographic recording material comprising a support and on one side of said support a thermosensitive element, wherein said thermographic recording material contains at least one compound represented by formula (I): ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7033742 | Method of photothermographic imaging for transmission electron microscopy The present invention is directed to a method of forming a positive image in a photothermographic film exposed by electrons in a transmission electron microscope to form a latent image in the film. The photothermographic film has at least one imaging layer comprisin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7026079 | Process for preparing a substantially transparent conductive layer configuration A process for preparing a substantially transparent conductive layer configuration on a support, the layer configuration comprising in any order at least a first layer containing an intrinsically conductive polymer optionally containing structural units represented ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7018787 | Thermally developable materials with improved backside layers Thermally developable materials such as photothermographic and thermographic materials have a backside conductive layer with increased conductive efficiency. This backside conductive layer is a buried conductive coating and is overcoated with a layer that contains a... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7005250 | Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer, at least one red-sensitive layer and at least one non-lightsensitive layer, wherein at l... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6974662 | Thermal base precursors Improved compounds and base precursors that undergo thermal decomposition are disclosed. Thermal base precursors, and in particular, a novel class of salts of arylsulfonylacetic acids as bleaching agents or promoting for photothermographic use are disclosed. Composi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6953615 | Polythiophene xerographic component coatings A xerographic component having a substrate and thereover a coating with a thiophene-based material is set forth. ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6949670 | Fluorocompound, silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, surfactant, and water-based coating composition employing same A fluorocompound denoted by general formula (1) below (wherein R1 denotes a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having a total of at least six carbon atoms, with R1 not being an alkyl group s... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6933101 | Fluorine compound, surfactant, aqueous coating composition and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material using them Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers contains the specific fluorine compound. The silver halide photographic ligh... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6933064 | Multilayer with spacers, touch screen and method A transparent multilayer comprises a deformable first conductive layer containing an intrinsically conductive polymer, a film forming binder, and spacer elements embedded in and projecting from the surface of the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6911302 | Coating composition for photographic materials A coating composition for use in a photographic element, the composition comprising an aqueous solution of: two or more surfactants; a hydrophilic binder; and optional matte particles; wherein one of the surfactants is represented by the following Formula (I): | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908574 | Tin-containing indium oxides, a process for producing them, a coating solution using them and electrically conductive coatings formed of them A Sn-containing In oxide in the form of needles or plates comprising particles having a major axis of 0.1 μm or less and a minor axis of 0.05 μm or less. ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908692 | Coating composition for metallic conductors and coating method using same An electrically conductive wire coated with a curable coating composition that forms a cured coating having a high partial discharge resitance and good mechanical properties. A process for coating an electrically conductive wire with a curable coating composition an... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908881 | Visible radiation type photocatalyst and production method thereof The invention is directed to a catalyst having activity under the irradiation of a visible light, the catalyst being an oxide semiconductor such as an anatase type titanium dioxide, having stable oxygen defects. A method for producing a catalyst having activity unde... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6897013 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers formed on the support contains a compound represented by the following formula... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6875563 | Fluorinated surfactants in overcoat compositions and elements containing same A coating composition for use in forming an overcoat layer in a photographic element, said composition comprising an aqueous solution of: a mixture of two or more surfactants; a hydrophilic binder; matte beads; and a lubricating agent; wherein one of the surfactants... | 04/05/2005 |