Thermal imaging element

US5506085A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Marc Van Damme · Heverlee, BE
• Joan Vermeersch · Deinze, BE
• Johan Lamotte · Rotselaar, BE
• Oskar Nuyken · Munich, DE
• Brigitte Voit · Hersbruck, DE
• Armin Lang · Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
• Cliff Scherer · Hersbruck, DE
• Andreas Baindl · Hersbruck, DE
• Jurgen Stebani · Krefeld, DE
• Alexander Wokaun · Endingen, CH
• Andrej Stasko · Bratislava, SK

Key dates

• Filing date: May 17, 1995
• Grant date: Apr 9, 1996
• Expiry date: May 17, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08G69/00
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A new type of thermal imaging element containing a thermally degradable polymer and a radiation to heat converting substance is disclosed. The invention further comprises several methods for the formation of a heat mode image after image-wise exposure of the thermal imaging element to intense laser radiation.