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| 7422383 | Photosensitive material processor Developer is supplied to a first spray pipe disposed in a developing bath. The inside of the developing bath is provided with a heater. A liquid-flow generating unit comprises a liquid-flow generating head and a branch duct, which is connected to a branch pipe of th... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7147721 | Apparatus and method for cleaning electronic packages The invention provides an apparatus and method for cleaning a plurality of electronic components. A tank is provided for containing a cleaning fluid and an ultrasonic resonator is mounted in communication with the cleaning fluid for charging ultrasonic energy theret... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7118296 | Photosensitive material processor A photographic paper processor includes plural liquid baths for containing liquid. The liquid baths have partition panels, and are adjacent to one another therewith. An opening formed in the partition panels has first and second inner surfaces opposed to one another... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7077584 | Dryer for a recording medium Dry air is jetted from jet holes of a guide plate toward a conveyor belt to levitate a photosensitive sheet and to press it against the conveyor belt. The photosensitive sheet is supported and carried by the conveyor belt. The dry air dries the photosensitive sheet.... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7004651 | Submerged processing device for photosensitive material A submerged processing device for a photosensitive material disposed at a partitioning wall which is provided within a processing tank main body and which is between processing chambers respectively storing a processing liquid, the submerged processing device includ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6974267 | Recording material processing apparatus for processing recording material A photographic paper processor includes plural serially arranged liquid baths, for sequentially processing a first photographic paper sheet of one type. The plural liquid baths are constituted by bath groups G1 and G2. The bath group G1 includes... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6908237 | X-ray processor automatic film feed An automatic x-ray film feed uses a timer and relay system to automatically develop a multiplicity of film slides one-by-one in an x-ray processor without requiring a user to manually advance the slides after each slides in developed. The timer activates a motor thr... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902330 | Printing plate processing apparatus A printing plate processing apparatus provides a step in which a printing plate which has undergone image exposure is processed by being immersed in a developing solution, and the printing plate is delivered while the developing solution is being squeezed out from t... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6764232 | Developer exit tank for immersion type printing plate processor A lithographic printing plate processor having an immersion developing tank followed by a developer exit tank in which a printing plate driven through the immersion tank is subjected to a spray of clean developer wherein the exit tank is isolated from the developing... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6655860 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A brush roller is structured such that a web body having wire members is wound in a helical manner around a roller main body to which an axial end member is mounted. A fastening member is mounted to a rotary shaft of the axial end member, and one end of t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6648524 | Device for removing moisture from sheets of photographic materials A device for removing moisture from individual sheets of a photographic material has a pair of transport rollers at the incoming side and another pair of transport rollers at the exit side of the device. Arranged between the roller pairs is a squeeze-out ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6572286 | Method and system for photographic processing A photographic processing system has a first processing stage to process photographic material. A second processing stage is also provided to further process the photographic material. A storage device is provided between the first processing stage and th... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6554508 | Photosensitive material processing device In a shutter facing an aperture portion in a partition plate in a photosensitive material processing device, a blocking member, formed substantially in a semicircular cylindrical shape, is placed by the rotation of a shaft between blades thereby closing t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6547460 | Photosensitive material processing device In a shutter facing an aperture portion in a partition plate in a photosensitive material processing device, a blocking member, formed substantially in a semicircular cylindrical shape, is placed by the rotation of a shaft between blades thereby closing t... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6547461 | Photosensitive material automatic-processing apparatus In a photosensitive material processing apparatus of the present invention, a brush roller used in a pre-water-washing section and a developing section is formed by winding a slender band wherein bristles are woven into a knitted fabric onto the periphera... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6517263 | Photographic processor having side by side processing paths and method of operation A photographic processor and method of operation is disclosed. The processor includes a circular drum having first and second film processing paths, and a disk positioned inside the drum. The disk comprises a first set of disk teeth for engagement with pe... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6508599 | Multi-reaction chamber static film processor which allows for multiple overlapped-cycle film processing An automated static film processor that will allow for the running of additional processing cycles of X-ray film while a previous cycle is running, comprising a housing having a pair of chemical storage reservoirs and multiple reaction chambers. The advan... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6505978 | Processing photographic material A method of processing photographic material in which a reciprocable member is plunged into a tank containing a small volume of processing solution. The solution is rapidly displaced through the channels created between the tank wall and the plunger and a... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6461062 | Apparatus and method for developing a photographic emulsion carrier An apparatus and method for developing a s photographic emulsion carrier in a plurality of processing tanks through which the emulsion carrier travels in succession, with at least one rotatable roller, the photographic emulsion carrier having a front sect... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6435741 | Processing photographic material A low volume processing apparatus having a narrow processing channel has the processing solution entering via passages located towards the inlet and outlet of the channel. The solution leaves the channel via a passage located in the middle thereof, the fl... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6409399 | Photographic processor having a roller cam replenishment system The present invention provides for a processor or processing arrangement which includes a replenishment system that meters or dispenses an amount of replenishment solution in direct relation to an amount of photosensitive media that passes through the pro... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6224273 | Process and device for the continuous separation of the constituents of an engraving bath The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of photopolymer printing blocks, which are utilizable for producing printed matter by flexography, typography or dry offset, of the type including a stage for polymerizing areas by exposure to ultravi... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222617 | Image forming apparatus An exposing apparatus provided with a drum to fixedly hold a sheet-shaped light sensitive material onto an outer peripheral surface thereof by suctioning; a rotating driver capable of rotating the drum at a rotational speed not less than 1200 rpm; and an ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6206587 | Automatic processing machine and method for manufacturing conveying rollers used therein There is provided an automatic processing machine which comprises a processing-solution processing section in which a photographic photosensitive material is subjected to development processing, and a drying section for drying the photeosensitive material... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6203219 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus When gears which drive rollers for transporting photographic printing paper are rotated to thereby transport the photographic printing paper, shutters retract from a photographic printing paper passage and rollers rotate so that the photographic printing ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6168322 | Apparatus for processing exposed photosensitive elements Apparatus for processing exposed photosensitive elements comprising: a cylindrical container having an open end and having a plurality of circumferentially disposed containment vessels for containing processing fluids; an index plate which is rotatably mo... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6161970 | Method of operating photosensitive material processing apparatus As developing processing operation is completed, driving of a motor is stopped so that rotation of conveying rollers is stopped. Then, in association with stopping of the conveying rollers, a timer is started. At a time when the timer has counted a specif... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6106168 | Automatic developing apparatus An automatic developing apparatus which transports film while preventing treatment liquid from being passed up onto gears and the like located above the surface of the treatment liquid and which prevents treatment liquid from being oxidized or decreasing ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6086270 | Processing photographic material Apparatus for processing photographic material has a plurality of stages for carrying out different processing steps. At least one stage has a series of processing regions each defined by an inclined surface that extends between sets of rollers. The surfa... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6082908 | Apparatus for processing a photosensitive medium The improved apparatus for processing a photosensitive medium comprises a tank 1, having a substantially semi-cylindrical shape and provided with an input opening 1a and output opening 1b. A transporting means 50 is provided above the tank 1, consisting of a p... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6076980 | Photographic processor having scrubbing rollers A method and apparatus for processing a photosensitive material. The apparatus includes a narrow processing channel through which a photosensitive material passes. A drive mechanism for transporting of the photosensitive material through the processing ch... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6074109 | Apparatus for processing photographic media An apparatus (10) useful for processing photosensitive media (16), such as photosensitive strips or sheets, in a corrosive environment has a transport mechanism (50) that includes first and second rollers (12, 14) each having a sleeve portion (26, 36) wit... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6071022 | Sealing arrangement A machine part (24) is provided with a resilient seal (28) having an in-use condition in which the seal (28) protrudes beyond a sealing face (32) of the machine part (24). The seal (28) has an alternative condition in which it is accommodated in a cut-out... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6059466 | Photographic film automatic developing apparatus A leader-less type photographic film automatic developing apparatus is described which provides for a maximally narrowed spacing between the centers of the development lines for respective films which can develop a plurality of kinds of film having differ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6059467 | Processing photographic material Exposed photographic film is washed in a multi-stage arrangement in which the film is guided through a container of solution and transferred from one stage to the next via air bubbles. The surface of solution that is exposed to the ambient atmosphere is m... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6056452 | Method for processing silver halide photographic light-sensitive material A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The method comprises the step of processing a color silver halide photographic material by a processing apparatus having the first processing tank in which t... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6048111 | Light-sensitive material processing apparatus There is provided a light-sensitive material processing apparatus comprising a development section having processing baths including a development bath, a fixing bath and washing baths, a drying section and a sorter section, wherein at least one of the pr... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6004727 | Method of making a lithographic printing plate An imaging element (15, 122) comprising on a lithographic base at least one radiation sensitive or heat-sensitive layer composition, is image-wise exposed to radiation or heat. The composition is such that when exposed and developed, a lithographic surfac... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5975774 | Compact processing apparatus and method for processing photosensitive material A processing apparatus and method combines thin channel and nozzle technology, as well as cascading processing solution flow. The processing apparatus includes a base member that defines at least one opening which has a longitudinal axis that extends at a... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5960227 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A photosensitive material processing apparatus feeds an elongated film, which is wound on a spool shaft, out from an entrance/exit opening of a film accommodating container, and carries out developing processing of the film. The photosensitive material pr... | 09/28/1999 |
