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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7107681 | Heating roller, method of producing the heating roller, and heating device, fixing device and image forming apparatus using the heating roller A heating roller including a core of hollow cylinder form and wherein a thickness of the core is thicker in a center portion thereof than in both end portions thereof. Further, a heating device may have the heating roller, a fixing device may have the heating roller... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108950 | Instant film unit Corner mask portions are provided at four corners of an exposure opening. The corner mask portions are formed by rounding the corners into curves. The quantity of developing solution contained in a developing solution pod is reduced, consequently, it is possible to ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7008123 | Image forming device having a brush type processing member The present invention relates to an image-forming device that comprises a roller that includes a plurality of micromembers. The micromembers are preferably hook or loop-like members made of a compliant material such as plastic or rubber. The micromembers on the roll... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6792384 | Method for producing fluid trap for film assemblage A method for producing a fluid trap for an instant film assemblage, which method can produce an environment-friendly trap easily and at low cost, is disclosed. A plate-shaped paper material having a uniform width and a uniform thickness is passed through a clearance... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6576390 | Method of and apparatus for manufacturing instant photographic film units An instant photographic film unit includes a mask sheet having an image frame and two sheets, one of which has a photosensitive layer, laminated and bonded together, and a developing liquid container disposed in a predetermined position for supplying a de... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6499893 | Image-recording device An image-recording device that improves processing speed for image-recording that is carried out using a light and heat sensitive recording material. At the same time as irradiation of the light and heat sensitive recording material with light by a light ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6417911 | Processing fluid spread system for an electronic photographic printer and camera and related method thereof A photographic processing fluid spread system, for use with integral type self-processable film unit, by which the thickness of a layer of processing fluid is controlled and restricted in a uniform manner as the processing fluid is spread across preselect... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6390694 | Imaging assembly and media cartridge having cooperating linkage arrangements An imaging assembly includes a media cartridge for holding a stack of media therein. The media cartridge includes a linkage assembly at least a portion of which is made of a material that is responsive to ambient conditions within the cartridge. An image ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6356712 | Instant camera with improved processing liquid spreading device A self-developing type of instant camera is equipped with a processing liquid spreading device comprising a pair of pressure-applying processing rollers which ruptures a processing liquid containing pod and distributes a processing liquid in a film unit, ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6327432 | Instant film packs The present invention is directed to developer solution trapping chips for use in a peel-apart type instant film unit, wherein the developer solution trapping chips are manufactured by cutting a continuous chip blank obtained by contour extrusion, which s... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6287744 | Method of and apparatus for manufacturing instant photography film unit After first, second, and third continuous members are bonded to each other in a laminated state, they are cut together to a predetermined length for thereby producing an instant photography film unit. A predetermined number of produced instant photography... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6186680 | Self-developing photo film unit with trap member for trapping surplus developing solution A self-developing photo film unit has a photosensitive sheet, first and second spacer rail members, a cover sheet, a mask sheet, a developing solution pod, and a strip-shaped trap member. The mask sheet has a mask portion, first and second bendback edge p... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6183144 | Instant photo film pack An instant photo film pack includes a pack case for containing a stack of ten self-processing photo film units. An outlet slit is formed in the pack case, for exiting an exposed one of the photo film units therethrough. A light-shielding flap has a substa... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6019525 | Self-developing film assemblage A photographic film assemblage comprising: a plurality of photographic elements connected in end-to-end fashion and a separable portion connected to and between adjacent pairs of the elements is disclosed wherein each of the separable portions has at leas... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5981137 | Photographic film assemblages and methods of making An improved self-developing film unit comprising: a processing fluid supply including a rupturable reservoir of processing fluid; an image recording assembly of the self-developing type including first and second overlying layers one of which is exposable... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5888693 | Film assembly An improved self-developing film unit comprising: processing fluid supply means including a rupturable reservoir of processing fluid at a leading end portion of the unit; image recording means of the self-developing type including first and second overlyi... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5884114 | Image forming device A photo and pressure sensitive printer permitting the feeding and discharging of a photosensitive recording medium at the front of the printer housing, having a compact design and slim built, which can easily be integrated into other equipment, such as a ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5732287 | Method, apparatus and system for cleaning pressure applying members There are provided a method, system, and apparatus for automatically cleaning a spread roller system for use in a photographic apparatus of the self-developing type. A cleaning apparatus includes a pod of cleaning fluid rupturable as it passes through a n... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5674653 | Test pouch Method and an apparatus for measuring the development parameter of a light-sensitive fluid in a white-light environment. The apparatus comprises first and second flexible light-impervious sheets superimposed and sealed together to form a pouch containing ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5639302 | Apparatus and system for cleaning pressure applying members There are provided a method, system, and apparatus for automatically cleaning a spread roller system for use in a photographic apparatus of the self-developing type. A cleaning apparatus includes a pod of cleaning fluid rupturable as it passes through a n... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5546154 | Pressure developer apparatus A pressure developing apparatus is described for use in developing images in the image area of a photosensitive imaging sheet containing microcapsules, wherein the apparatus comprises: an arm which oscillates in arcuate paths across the surface of the imaging ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5327187 | Film cassette having a force transmitting member motion guiding surface incorporated therein A film cassette for an automatic film processor is provided with a cam surface for consistently and accurately guiding a force-transmitting member into and out of engagement with a pocket formed in a sheet element of a self-developing, peel-apart film uni... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5292612 | Film-sheet assemblage for peel-apart self-developing film An improved film format for a self-developing, peel-apart film unit having flexible positive and negative sheet elements and a pod of developer liquid, wherein at least one of the sheet elements bends when a force is applied to a trailing edge thereof to ... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5134429 | Instant photographic apparatus A peel-apart type instant photographic apparatus using a negative film and a positive sheet. The apparatus has a dark box for developing and accommodating the negative film and positive sheet, or supply, joined together and having a developer spread there... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5057860 | Pressure developing device provided in an image recording apparatus A pressure developing device in an image recording apparatus for recording an image on the recording medium, includes a pair of pressure developing rollers to be separated from and contacted with each other, and a pressurizing unit disposed on either one ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4996554 | Pressure developing device Disclosed is a pressure developing device having a pair of pressure rollers for pressurizing a photo and pressure sensitive recording sheet and a developing sheet in an overlapped state, the device comprising a plurality of spring members for supplying a ... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4985714 | Film dispenser with articulated catcher A dispenser of film units is operative with a film processing apparatus enclosed within a housing. The housing includes a front sidewall having an exit slot for delivery of film units, the dispenser including a film ejection device located behind the slot... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4985335 | Self-processing film unit A self-processing film unit wherein a cover sheet is formed with a first portion and a second portion extending from an opening defining an image forming area toward a trapping member, the first portion is longer than the second portion, and the first por... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4985334 | Self-processing film unit A self-processing film unit has an over sheet for covering a surface which is exposed after an image recording sheet with a positive image recorded therein has been peeled off. The over sheet is superimposed on the exposed surface after peeling-off and ad... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4965623 | Image recording apparatus and method An image recording apparatus in which an image recording material bearing an image to be recorded and an image receiving sheet are stacked together and pressurized with a pair of pressurizing rollers so that the image is transferred to the image receiving... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4962402 | Pressure device for use in image forming apparatuses A pressure device for use in image forming apparatuses comprises a pair of pressure rollers by which a media sheet with microcapsules encapsulating a colorless dye and a light-curable agent which hardens by exposure to light is pressed together with an im... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4914711 | Integrally molded bearing block assembly The assembly of a support and a slide carried by the support for translational movement relative thereto in which the support defines a slide opening having opposed end edges and opposed side edges, the side edges diverging from each other proceeding from... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4908633 | Photosensitive microcapsule recorder with transfer sheet transported at an angle relative to the axial direction of the pressure rollers An image forming apparatus makes use of a photosensitive sheet having a surface coated with microcapsules encapsulating a light-curable agent and a colorless dye and an image transfer sheet having one surface coated with a developing agent having an chrom... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4893144 | Continuous web form instant photographic materials and method for processing the same A rapid access processing method for processing and delivering successive image frames on a continuous carrier web in a manner so that processing liquid spread over the area of each image frame on the carrier web is confined essentially to the image frame... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4886732 | 35 mm self-developing transparency film assemblage An instant or self-developing transparency film assemblage for producing a 35 mm film transparency ready for mounting in a frame for subsequent viewing in cooperation with a viewer or projector. The film assemblage includes (1) a film chip having an opaqu... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4884501 | Pressure developing apparatus Disclosed is a pressure developing apparatus for pressing a microcapsule sheet carrying photo-sensitive microcapsules applied thereon and having a latent image formed thereon, together with a developer sheet carrying a developer applied thereon, the appar... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4872032 | Image fixing device An image fixing device comprises a supporting platform for supporting thereon a recording sheet on which a provisional image is formed, one or more of rollers adapted to roll over the surface of the recording sheet in a direction substantially transversel... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4864343 | Pressure development roll for imaging sheets employing photosensitive microcapsules A pressure roll is disclosed particularly for fixing and developing sheet material which is treated by passing through a high pressure nip defined by a pair of the rolls. The roll includes a support shaft and a cylindrical roll body secured to the shaft. ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4860058 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive medium having light sensitive microcapsules thereon which are pressed against a transfer medium to transfer a latent image from the photosensitive medium to the transfer medium. A pressure developing de... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4839676 | Film cassette-liquid spread roller assembly interface Photographic apparatus for supporting a cassette containing a plurality of film units of the self-developing type in position for exposure. Subsequent to its exposure, the film unit is moved out of the cassette and redirected to a liquid spread roller ass... | 06/13/1989 |
