Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Akihide Itoh

Fumihito Masubuchi

Yukio Konagaya

Takao Igawa

Tohru Nogiwa

Akira Suzuki

Yoshihiko Hotta

Toru Nogiwa

Atushi Kutami

A reversible thermosensitive recording medium having a support, a reversible thermosensitive recording layer formed thereon which contains a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, capable of reversibly assuming a transparent state and a white opaque state depending on the temperature thereof, and a magnetic recording layer formed on the reversible thermosensitive recording layer, and optionally, an anchor layer, which is provided on the reversible thermosensitive recording layer. The magnetic recording layer is integrally provided in a part of the reversible thermosensitive recording layer or the anchor layer by a step of fusion-bonding, applying, or transferring.

Reversible thermosensitive recording medium and method of producing the

An image formation method of a reversible thermosensitive recording material capable of reversibly switching its transparency or color tone depending on the temperature thereof is disclosed, which includes the steps of recording images therein at a predetermined image forming temperature, erasing the recorded images from the recording material at a predetermined image erasing temperature, and cleaning the surface of the reversible thermosensitive recording material using cleaning means at substantially the same temperature as the image erasing temperature, with the image erasing step and the cleaning step being carried out substantially at the same time.

Image formation method using a reversible thermosensitive recording

Method of producing reversible thermosensitive recording medium

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Mishima, Japan

Akihide Itoh