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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7626603 | Thermal transfer device and method for forming a display device using the same A thermal transfer device used for forming a display device includes a donor layer capable of modulating light by application of external energy, a print heat for conducting thermal energy to the donor layer, at least one donor element formed by the donor layer abso... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7425973 | Thermal type image forming apparatus A thermal type image forming apparatus is provided for printing images on both sides of a medium, which are a first surface and a second surface of the medium. A thermal print head (TPH) is rotated about a platen roller to a first position facing the first surface o... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7365762 | Thermal printing head comprising a printable tape guiding member, in the form of a protection cover for a flexible control printed circuit A thermal printing head comprises a guide member made in a single-piece and designed as a jumper comprising two superimposed walls, covering, at least partly, respectively and jointly both surfaces of a flexible printed circuit board and providing between them a spa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365763 | Thermal activation apparatus, printer, thermal activation method, and method of manufacturing adhesive label A thermal activation apparatus includes a thermal head for thermal activation, a platen roller for thermal activation pressed against the thermal head, and an air cooling mechanism. The air cooling mechanism includes partitions for separating the thermal activation ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7333123 | Thermal type image forming apparatus and method of removing jammed medium therefrom A thermal type image forming apparatus has a rotating cam which moves a thermal print head to a contact location. The rotating cam moves the thermal print head to contact locations so that the thermal print head contacts a platen roller at a first open location wher... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324237 | Image recording apparatus correcting the image recording position based on the detected result of the recording material This invention relates to an image recording apparatus provided with a transporting unit transporting an image recording material whose shape has at a least one side in a predetermined transporting direction; an image recording position detecting unit detecting a po... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7256803 | Direct thermal printer A direct thermal printer device that can be used in any application using thermal printers. A direct thermal printer creates images on thermally active medium by applying light energy or radiant thermal energy created by a thermal heat source to create the heat nece... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250959 | Printer with multi-pass media transport A thermal printer and method for operating a thermal printer are provided. The thermal printer has a receiver medium path leading past a print nip between a print head and platen. A processor causes an urge roller to move the receiver medium in the forward direction... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7173642 | Thermal activation apparatus for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet A thermal activation apparatus has a casing which houses a drawing roller that draws a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet through an insertion port and transports the sheet through the casing. A cutter unit cuts the sheet to a predetermined length, a thermal activation u... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7104713 | Printer for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet A printer has a sheet housing unit for storing a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on one side and a printable surface on the other side. A set of pull-out rollers pulls the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet out of the sheet housing un... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106355 | Apparatus for paperless transfer printing and the process thereof The present invention is related to an apparatus for paperless transfer printing, which includes a printer and a heat transfer printing machine, the printer is connected and assembled with the heat transfer printing machine by an endless metal foil belt, the heat tr... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7088469 | Method and apparatus for printing halftone recipe color images An apparatus for printing halftone recipe color images which comprises a printhead (500). The printhead (500) prints a first color (800) at a first intensity. The printhead (500) prints a second color (802) at a second intensity. T... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7031633 | Printing apparatus and method with improved control of humidity and temperature A method and apparatus for controlling conditions in a printer that includes a print engine that is operative upon an article to print marks upon the article. Sensors are provided for detecting relative humidity and temperature within a moving air stream in the prin... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6966643 | Permanent heat activated ink jet printing process An image is printed on a substrate by means of a computer driven printer using heat activated dyes, without activating the dyes during the process of printing onto the substrate. The dyes are subsequently activated by applying sufficient heat and pressure to the sub... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962765 | Laser-generated ultraviolet radiation mask A UV-mask, a system and method for making the mask and a method of using the mask for producing an image a print medium are disclosed. The system includes a donor element having a substrate coated with a layer of IR-sensitive material and a layers of UV-absorbing ma... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6933475 | Method and system for turning on an optical radiation source An optical communication module includes an optical radiation source as well as control circuitry to control the temperature and the power emitted by he optical source. In order to permit soft start-up of the source while avoiding undesired wavelength variations, th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6909444 | Transfer ribbon, image expressing medium and method for production of them The invention provides a transfer ribbon having a layered structure in which a substrate, a relief layer and a reflection layer are laminated in this order, wherein the relief layer comprises an ionizing radiation-cured resin. The transfer ribbon can precisely trans... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6897886 | Indolylphthalide compound and thermal recording material using the same A thermal recording material comprising, on a substrate, a thermal recording layer which includes an electron-donating dye precursor and an electron-accepting compound, wherein at least one kind of the electron-donating dye precursor is an indolylphthalide compound ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6870557 | Multicolor image forming material and method of multicolor image formation A multicolor image forming material comprising: an image receiving sheet comprising a substrate and an image receiving layer; and at least four heat transfer sheets each comprising a substrate and an image forming layer, each of the heat transfer sheets being adapte... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6646665 | Thermal recording system for post-heating a thermosensitive recording medium and method therefor A thermal recording system for recording an image on a thermo-sensitive recording medium using a laser beam under a preheated condition of the thermo-sensitive recording medium. In the thermal recording system, a preheating device preheats the thermo-sens... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6614506 | Image forming apparatus and registration correcting method of the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus for sequentially superimposes images formed by a plurality of image forming stations for forming images of different colors, respectively, on a transferring material born and transported by a transferring material transporting m... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6490024 | Image forming device An image forming device in which a plurality of image frames are exposed onto a photosensitive material at an exposure device, and the photosensitive material is superposed with image receiving materials of same sizes as the image frames on a heat drum, s... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6396528 | Image forming system, intermediate transfer medium and method with temporary attachment features An image forming system and method form temporarily attached color particles corresponding to an image on an intermediate image transfer device. The color particles are temporarily attached to the intermediate image transfer device by supplying energy, su... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6369878 | Dual-roller overdriven peel mechanism An imaging forming device using a platen, an upper peel roller, a lower peel roller movably positioned under and parallel to the upper peel roller, a diverter bar rotatably positioned underneath the platen and near the upper and lower peel rollers and ada... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6340985 | Thermal recording apparatus There is provided a thermal recording apparatus which includes a pre-heating section for heating a thermal recording material to a temperature 6 to 20° C. lower than a color forming temperature; a heat recording section for recording an image by heating ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6325474 | Device for writing on thermographic material The invention relates to a device (1) for writing on thermographic material (5). The inventive device (1) comprises a heater (20) with which the thermographic material (5) is preheated to a temperature, which is lower than a writing temperature. The therm... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6295116 | Optical scanning system for printer An optical scanning system for a printer includes an optical scanning unit having a deflector divided into a plurality of deflection regions to allow repetitive scanning of light emitted from a light source by rotation, the optical scanning unit for scann... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6236421 | Thermal recording apparatus The thermal recording apparatus includes an image recording device and a light irradiation device. The image recording device records an image by heating imagewise a thermal recording material. This material includes a color forming agent and a developer ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6219078 | Printer with preheating of sheet A printer with sheet preheating in which toner applied to a toner ribbon is heat-transferred onto a heat adhesive recording sheet, wherein: a heating member heats the recording sheet at a temperature within the range of predetermined temperatures before t... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6152620 | Processing method for rewritable card and processing apparatus for the same Disclosed is a processing apparatus for a rewritable card having a printing layer made of a heat-reversible recording material on which erasing/printing processes of images are repeatedly performed while traveling the card in a processing direction. The a... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6144395 | Printer with preheating of sheet A printer with sheet preheating in which toner applied to a toner ribbon is heat-transferred onto a heat adhesive recording sheet, wherein: a heating member heats the recording sheet at a temperature within the range of predetermined temperatures before t... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6121991 | Forming authenticated images in a receiver A method of forming authenticated images on image areas of a receiver to form a series of viewable images such as postal stamps including moving a colorant donor element having a plurality of transferable colorants into transferable relationship with the ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6069643 | Thermal Transfer recording apparatus and method to reduce ink sheet sticking A thermal transfer recording apparatus for performing recording of data on a recording medium by transferring ink of an ink sheet on said recording medium comprises conveying means for conveying said ink sheet and recording medium, recording means for eff... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6004052 | Printing device with a heater provided at a charge applying station A printing apparatus for printing an image on a sheet fed along a sheet feeding path. The printing apparatus includes a print head unit and a sheet feeding system. The sheet feeding system may include a pair of rollers and a sheet guide device. The pair o... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5990917 | Method and apparatus for producing a printing image distribution A method and apparatus is disclosed for setting a distribution of image points on a printing surface having a coating of thermally activated material. For each image point to be set and used as part of an image, a laser heats the image point for a predete... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5940112 | Temporary take-up drum for removing curl from rolled receiver paper Temporary take-up drum for removing curl from rolled receiver paper. A thermal printer mechanism arrangement with a thermal printer head (9), a paper supply roll (11), and a temporary print take-up drum (12). The paper supply roll (11) rolls in a directio... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5920331 | Method and apparatus for accurate control of temperature pulses in printing heads A method and apparatus for producing a thermal pulse for a drop on demand printer actuator. A varying voltage pulse is applied to a resistance heater forming part of the actuator, which generates time varying power in the resistance heater. The power vari... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5909232 | Thermal recording system for preheating a thermosensitive recording medium and method therefor A thermal recording system for recording an image on a thermo-sensitive recording medium using a laser beam under a preheated condition of the thermo-sensitive recording medium. In the thermal recording system, a preheating device preheats the thermo-sens... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5874981 | Combined pulse-width and amplitude modulation of exposing laser beam for thermal dye transfer A laser thermal system that uses a dye donor produces a desired relationship of exposure to density by modifying the input current waveform supplied to the exposure source. The modification is a combination of amplitude modulation and pulse width modulati... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5777655 | Thermal recording device A heat-sensitive recording material which develops color in a density according to heat energy supplied thereto is pre-heated by supplying the heat-sensitive recording material with heat energy less than color developing heat energy and information is rec... | 07/07/1998 |
