US 7,514,206 B2
Thermally developable materials with buried conductive backside coatings
Thomas J. Ludemann, Maplewood, Minn. (US); Gary E. LaBelle, Stillwater, Minn. (US); Thomas J. Kub, North Stillwater, Minn. (US); Kumars Sakizadeh, Woodbury, Minn. (US); and Sharon M. Simpson, Lake Elmo, Minn. (US)
Assigned to Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/403,782.
Prior Publication US 2007/0244004 A1, Oct. 18, 2007
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G03C 5/16 (2006.01); G03C 1/498 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 430—523  [430/510; 430/527; 430/530; 430/619; 430/531] 23 Claims
 
1. A thermally developable material that comprises a support having on the frontside thereof, one or more thermally developable imaging layers comprising a binder and in reactive association, a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, and a reducing agent composition for said non-photo-sensitive source reducible silver ions, and
having disposed on the backside of said support,
an organic solvent-based buried conductive backside layer comprising one or more binder polymers having dispersed therein, nanoparticles of a conductive metal compound and an antistatic compound that is an organic solvent soluble inorganic alkali metal salt that together are present in an amount sufficient to provide a water electrode resistivity of 1012 ohm/sq at 21.1° C. and 50% relative humidity, and a static decay time of less than 100 seconds at 21.1° C. and 20% relative humidity,
and an organic solvent-based outermost backside layer.