Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Keiko Suzuki

Shunichi Higashiyama

Jun Sakai

Mikio Imaeda

Osamu Takagi

Akira Sago

Masashi Ueda

Yumio Matsumoto

Shigeru Kagayama

Kiyoharu Hayakawa

Takashi Nakata

Yukichi Sawaki

Yuji Asano

Takashi Kawaguchi

Mitsuo Yamane

Mitsuru Ohta

Takashi Tomizawa

Hiroshi Kawahara

Kouji Inaishi

Satoru Kuwabara

Koji Suzuki

An image transfer type recording method for forming a visible image on a developer medium comprising a base sheet, a thermoplastic resin layer, and a developer material layer which is color-reactable with a chromogenic material laminated in this order, and transferring the visible image on the developer medium to any type of image supporting medium, comprising the steps of forming the visible image on the developer material layer through a color-reaction between the developer material and the chromogenic material, providing an adhesive layer on the developer material layer, superposing the developer material layer and the image supporting medium under pressure and heat to fixedly transfer the developer material layer having the visible image thereon to the image supporting medium, and peeling off only the substrate of the developer medium.

Image transferring medium

An image recording medium is provided with an identifying index indicative of whether or not one side of the image recording medium is a front side coated with developing agent. In another image recording medium coated with developing agent, electrical resistance material is coated on at least one side of the image recording medium. In a detecting device for the another image recording medium, an electrode unit is provided for measuring electric conductivity of one side of the image recording medium. A control unit is connected to the electrode unit for identifying the image recording medium on the basis of the electric conductivity measured by the electrode unit. In another detecting device, a light emitting unit emits light with which at least one of front and back sides of an image recording medium is illuminated. A light receiving unit receives light reflected from the at least one side of the image recording medium. An identifying unit is connected to the light receiving unit for identifying the front and back sides and presence and absence of the image recording medium on the basis of the light received by the light receiving unit.

Image recording medium and detecting device therefor

An apparatus and a method for forming a three-dimensional article with photosetting or thermosetting material on the basis of a three-dimensional information on the article by means of an ink jet method. The material is jetted from at least one ink jet head to a stage and laminated thereon. The laminated material is exposed to light by a light source to be cured. In this process, a jetting direction of the material from the ink jet head to the stage and/or a jetting amount of the material jetted from the ink jet head is changed in accordance with the information by a control unit, thereby forming a solid article having a desired three-dimensional shape.

Apparatus and method for forming three-dimensional article

A recording medium which enables formation of an image on any desired substrate is disclosed, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least a color developer capable of color-forming reaction with a dye precursor, and an adhesive such as heat-sensitive adhesives, tackifying composition, etc.

Recording medium

A recording medium enabling formation of an image on any desired material is disclosed. The recording medium comprises a base sheet, a thermoplastic resin layer formed on at least one side of the base sheet, and a color developer layer formed on the thermoplastic resin layer and capable of color development by reaction with a dye precursor.

Image recording medium comprising a color developer layer formed on a

A recording medium comprising a planar substrate, and a layer of microcapsules carried by the planar substrate, each of the microcapsules containing a photosensitive material whose hardness varies upon exposure to a radiation, and a heat-sensitive chromogenic material which produces a color at a temperature higher than a room temperature.

Recording medium having heat-sensitive chromogenic material, and image

A process and system for forming images on a recording sheet, according to source image information as provided on an original, wherein a pressure-sensitive photosensitive sheet is image-wise exposed to a radiation, to form thereon latent images corresponding to the source image information, and a pressure is applied to the image-wise exposed photosensitive sheet, to cause a chemical reaction and thereby develop the latent images into visible images on the recording sheet. The thus pressurized recording sheet is heated so that the chemical reaction is promoted to thereby increase a density of the visible images.

Image forming process and system, including heating step or device for

The photocopying is usually made by the chemical reaction with the developing agents on photosensitive sheet or on separate developing agents layer. However, any type of sheet of paper such as mail card, card stock or the like can be photocopied in such manner that the photocopied image formed on photosensitive sheet is adhered to the sheet of paper by using an adhesive coater. Using this method, the sheets of paper are double folded after adhering. Further, instead of adhering the photosensitive sheet to the sheet of paper, the image can also be formed on the sheet of paper by coating developing agents thereon for chemical reaction with the photosensitive sheet. Thus the thickness of paper can be reduced to a single sheet of paper.

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Okazaki, Japan

Keiko Suzuki