Patent ReferencesThermal plate making apparatus Patent #: 5216951 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 127435 filed on 09/27/1993US Classes:101/128.21, Laminated and/or plural sheets and/or coated base and manufacture101/128.4, Manufacture347/171, THERMAL MARKING APPARATUS OR PROCESSES400/120.13By transfer material or record receiverExaminersPrimary: Burr, Edgar S.Assistant: Funk, Stephen R. Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassB41C 001/055Foreign Application Priority Data1992-10-02 JPAbstractA thermal stencil plate making method, by which a perforation image is formed on a thermal stencil original sheet comprising a thermoplastic resin film and a porous support laminated on each other or a thermal stencil original sheet composed substantially only of a thermoplastic resin film by applying thermal energy to the thermal stencil original sheet by means of a thermal head, is characterized in that a distance between heating elements in the thermal head: d (μm) and a thickness of a heating element protection layer: T (μm) satisfy the following condition of Equation (1) and that a secondary scan direction heating element spacing between heating elements in the thermal head: D (μm) and the thickness of the heating element protection layer: T (μm) satisfy the following condition of Equation (2):5ࣘd/T (1);4.5ࣘD/T (2). | |