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Dry process production and annotation of archival microform records from hard copy

CA 1084323 A · Owner: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. · Inventors: Ovshinsky, Stanford R.; Klose, Peter H.

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Abstract of Disclosure Light reflected from hard copy is reduced to microimage size and applied at an imaging and developing station to a dryprocess mask film strip which is photosensitive to the reflected light and which is developed by heat to provide microimaged transparencies therein. Such microimaged transparencies in the mask film strip are transferred in an image transferring station to a dry process microform film which has archival properties and which is sensitive to and imaged and developed by raidant energy above a certain critical value applied thereto through the mask film strip to provide imaged microform records therein which conform to the transparent microimages in the …

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  • Granted August 26, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 26, 1997.
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FiledSeptember 30, 1977
GrantedAugust 26, 1980
Term endedAugust 26, 1997
Patent numberCA 1084323 A
Classification (IPC)G03B27/16 +1 more

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1978198019821984198619881990199219941996Application filedSep 30, 1977Patent grantedAug 26, 1980Term endedAug 26, 1997

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