Sensitivity-increasing recording process for a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material

US5968714A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Luc Leenders · Herentals, BE
• Jacobus Bosschaerts · Mortsel, BE
• Robert Overmeer · Mortsel, BE
• Eddie Daems · Herentals, BE
• Leo Oelbrandt · Kruibeke, BE
• Hans Strijckers · Mortsel, BE
• Thomas Zehetmaier · Neufarn, DE
• Jurgen Muller · Wulfen, DE
• Friedrich Stumpf
• Gerald Halbedl · Großenhain, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 5, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 19, 1999
• Expiry date: Sep 5, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03C1/4989
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A recording process comprising the steps of: information-wise exposing to radiation a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material, thereby producing a latent image; and heating the photosensitive thermally developable photographic material, characterized in that the photosensitive thermally developable photographic material is on one and the same holding or guiding means during both the information-wise exposure step and the heating step; and the information-wise exposure step is carried out during the heating step; and a method of increasing the photosensitivity of a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material.