Imaging apparatuses and processes

US5176974A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Henry R. Till · East Rochester, US
• Harold M. Anderson · Rancho Palos Verdes, US
• Gerald A. Domoto · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Aron Sereny · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Joseph M. Crowley · معلمی نژاد, US
• Richard G. Crystal · Los Altos, US
• John C. Knights · Soquel, US
• Rodney B. Proulx · Webster, US
• Nicholas K. Sheridon · Saratoga, US
• John M. Lennon · Mississauga, CA
• Stephan V. Drappel · Toronto, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 16, 1989
• Grant date: Jan 5, 1993
• Expiry date: Oct 16, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G15/321
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed are ionographic imaging apparatuses and processes. One apparatus comprises an imaging means, means for applying to the imaging means a liquid material capable of forming a dielectric peel layer adhering to the imaging means, ionographic writing means for generating a latent image on the peel layer, means for developing the latent image on the peel layer, and means for simultaneously transferring the peel layer bearing the developed image from the imaging means to a substrate and affixing the peel layer bearing the developed image to the substrate. In another embodiment, the apparatus employs a process which comprises applying to an imaging means a liquid material capable of forming a dielectric peel layer adhering to the imaging means, forming a first latent image on the peel layer with an ionographic writing means, developing the first latent image with a first developer, forming a second latent image on the peel layer containing the first developed image with an ionographic writing means, developing the second latent image with a second developer, forming a third latent image on the peel layer containing the first and second developed images with an ionographic writing …