US 2003/0190558 A1 · Thermal development apparatus

Abstract

There is described a thermal development apparatus, which makes it possible to prevent generation of density variations caused by changes of the processing temperature during the thermal developing operation when the thermal developing photosensitive material is continuously processed, without increasing the cost of the apparatus so much. The thermal development apparatus includes a thermal developing processor to apply a thermal development processing to the thermal developing photosensitive material, a detector to detect the thermal developing photosensitive material to be conveyed into the thermal developing processor and a controller to control the thermal developing processor in a feed forward controlling mode based on a processing condition of the thermal developing processor. The processing condition is established in advance, corresponding to a load of processing the thermal developing photosensitive material detected in advance by the detector.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for thermally developing a thermal developing photosensitive material, comprising:

a thermal developing processor to apply a thermal development processing to said thermal developing photosensitive material;
a detector to detect said thermal developing photosensitive material to be conveyed into said thermal developing processor;
and
a controller to control said thermal developing processor in a feed forward controlling mode based on a processing condition of said thermal developing processor;
wherein said processing condition is established in advance, corresponding to a load of processing said thermal developing photosensitive material detected in advance by said detector.

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An apparatus for forming an image on a thermal developing photosensitive material, comprising:

a data storage to store image data in it;
a latent image forming section to form a latent image based on said image data, stored in said data storage, onto said thermal developing photosensitive material;
a thermal developing processor to apply a thermal development processing to said thermal developing photosensitive material so as to convert said latent image to said image, serving as a visible image on it;
and
a controller to control said latent image forming section and/or said thermal developing processor in a feed forward controlling mode based on a processing condition for forming said image.

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A method for forming an image on a thermal developing photosensitive material, comprising the steps of:

storing image data in a data storage;
forming a latent image based on said image data, stored in said data storage, onto said thermal developing photosensitive material;
applying a thermal development processing to said thermal developing photosensitive material so as to convert said latent image to said image, serving as a visible image on it;
and
controlling a forming operation of said latent image and said thermal development processing in a feed forward controlling mode based on a processing condition for forming said image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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