Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solvent-less process for producing transient documents
- Patent Title (中): 用于生产瞬态文件的无溶剂过程
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Application No.: US11930732Application Date: 2007-10-31
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Publication No.: US07709164B2Publication Date: 2010-05-04
- Inventor: Gabriel Iftime , Peter M Kazmaier , Naveen Chopra , San-Ming Yang , Raymond W Wong
- Applicant: Gabriel Iftime , Peter M Kazmaier , Naveen Chopra , San-Ming Yang , Raymond W Wong
- Applicant Address: US CT Norwalk
- Assignee: Xerox Corporation
- Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Norwalk
- Agency: MH2 Technology Law Group
- Main IPC: G03F7/00
- IPC: G03F7/00 ; G03F7/004

Abstract:
An image forming method including (a) providing a reimageable medium comprised of a substrate and a photochromic material, wherein the medium is capable of exhibiting a color contrast and an absence of the color contrast; (b) exposing the medium to an imaging light corresponding to a predetermined image to result in an exposed region and a non-exposed region, wherein the color contrast is present between the exposed region and the non-exposed region to allow a temporary image corresponding to the predetermined image to be visible for a visible time; (c) subjecting the temporary image to an indoor ambient condition for an image erasing time to change the color contrast to the absence of the color contrast to erase the temporary image without using an image erasure device; and (d) optionally repeating procedures (b) and (c) a number of times to result in the medium undergoing a number of additional cycles of temporary image formation and temporary image erasure, wherein the reimageable medium is prepared by a solvent-less process comprising i) heating and melting a photochromic material and a polymer to form a coating composition, and ii) coating the coating composition onto at least one side of a transient document substrate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080044747A1 SOLVENT-LESS PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TRANSIENT DOCUMENTS Public/Granted day:2008-02-21
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