The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.

Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation

Kuniyuki Senga

Tsutomu Kito

Shigehiro Koide

Katsuyuki Fujita

Hiroyuki Hayashi

Jun Sugai

Hiroki Harata

Masahiro Ito

Kazuhiko Tanaka

Masao Kawamoto

Tsutomu Tomatsu

Naoya Ishimura

Kenji Hiramatsu

Kyoji Aoyama

Masanori Takeda

Makoto Miyamoto

A friction body is configured to discolor handwriting written with a thermochromic ink with frictional heat. The friction body includes a viscoelastic body, and has a Shore A hardness (based on JIS K 7215) immediately after start of contact of an indenter point of from 55 to 95.

Friction body, writing instrument, and writing set

A reversible thermochromic display article which comprises a substrate and, formed thereon, a heat coloration image containing a heat coloration type reversible thermochromic composition which is colored by heating and is decolored by cooling and a heat decoloration image containing a heat decoloration type reversible thermochromic composition which is decolored by heating and is colored by cooling, or having a multilayer structure comprising a heat coloration layer containing the heat coloration type reversible thermochromic composition and a heat decoloration layer containing the heat decoloration type reversible thermochromic composition, wherein the heat coloration type reversible thermochromic composition is a microcapsule composition which contains, enclosed therein, (a) an electron-donating chromatic organic compound, (b)' an electron-accepting compound selected from gallic acid esters, and (c) a reaction medium having a melting point lower than 50&#xb0; C. which is selected from alcohols, esters, ketones, and hydrocarbons and which causes color reactions between the two components to occur reversibly at specific temperatures.

Reversible thermochromic display article

A thermally color-developing reversibly thermochromic pigment which shows a uniform color density in the coloring temperature range and also shows an optimal &#x394;H value within a range of from 3 to 40&#xb0; C. Thermally color-developing reversibly thermochromic pigments of a three component system having a &#x394;H value within a range of from 7 to 40&#xb0; C. in which at least essential three components including (a) an electron-donating chromic organic compound, (b) a specified compound selected from the gallic acid esters and (c) a reaction medium selected from alcohols, esters, ketones and hydrocarbons; which reversibly generates color reactions of both of the compounds within a specified temperature range and has a melting point of less than 50&#xb0; C., are microencapsulated, and of a four component system having a &#x394;H value within a range of from 3 to 25&#xb0; C. in which a compound (d) selected from monomer compounds having a melting point of 50&#xb0; C. or more or polymer compounds having a softening point of 70&#xb0; C. or more is added to the three component system.

Thermally color-developing reversibly thermochromic pigment

A reversibly metachromatic toy having a platelike resin foamed substrate, a resin layer provided on both the outer side surfaces of the foamed substrate, and a reversibly metachromatic layer provided on at least one-side resin layer partly or all over the surface.

Reversibly metachromatic toy

This invention provides a reversibly thermochromic ultraviolet ray-hardening type ink having good color change sensitivity and excellent light resistance and fastness, and a reversibly thermochromic laminate produced using the same. The present invention also provides a reversibly thermochromic laminate produced by forming a reversibly thermochromic layer on a support using the same. The ink comprises: (1) a microencapsulated pigment comprising a reversibly thermochromic composition comprising (A) an electron-donating compound, (B) an electron-accepting compound and (C) a color change temperature-controlling agent which controls color reaction generation temperature of the former two compounds; and (D) a light resistance-providing agent represented by a specific formula, and (2) a photo-polymerizable composition comprising an ultraviolet ray absorbent, a reactive oligomer, a reactive monomer, and an acylphosphine oxide photo-polymerization initiator, wherein said microencapsulated pigment is dispersed in said photo-polymerizable composition.

Reversibly thermochromic ultraviolet ray-hardening ink composition and reversibly thermochromic laminate using the same

A thermochromic dry offset ink comprising a dry offset ink medium and a thermochromic pigment material dispersed therein, wherein the thermochromic pigment material is a pigment material which has a microcapsular form having non-round particle cross section and has a thermochromic material enclosed in the microcapsules. Also disclosed is a printed article produced using the ink. The thermochromic dry offset ink can more improve pressure resistance and heat resistance and also can more satisfy uniform printability and high-speed continuous printability in offset printing especially on articles such as containers.

Thermochromic dry offset ink, and printed article produced using the same

Disclosed is a thermochromic microencapsulated pigment which comprises as four essential components (a) an electron-donating chromatic organic compound, (b) an electron-accepting compound, (c) a reaction medium determining the temperatures at which the color reactions of component (a) with component (b) take place, and (d) a color change temperature regulator, the color change temperature regulator (d) comprising one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of esters, alcohols, ketones, acid amides, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids and having a melting point Y (&deg; C.) satisfying the relationship (X&plus;30)&deg; C.&lE;Y&lE;200&deg; C., wherein X (&deg; C.) is the melting point of component (c), and the four essential components being microencapsulated.

Thermochromic microencapsulated pigments

A reversibly thermochromic light-transmitting laminate member which has a satisfactory thermochromic function and undergoes alternate color changes between a colorless transparent state and a colored transparent state.

Reversibly thermochromic light-transmitting laminate member

A reversibly thermochromic light-shielding/light-transmitting laminate member. More particularly, the invention relates to a reversibly thermochromic light-shielding/light-transmitting laminate member which changes not only in color but in transmittance with temperature.

Reversibly thermochromic light-shielding/light-transmitting laminate member

A thermoplastic resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin (A) and a thermoplastic polymer (B) having a glass transition temperature within the range of from -20.degree. C. to 70.degree. C. which are melt-blended in a proportion (A)/(B) of from 95/5 to 20/80 in weight ratio. The composition, upon application of an external stress in a temperature region of from a temperature about the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic polymer (B) to the melting point thereof, is transformable to any shape that conforms to that stress, and is capable of becoming fixed to the transformed shape in a temperature region lower than the glass transition temperature. The composition can be used to provide a temperature-dependent shape-transformable/fixable product formed of the above composition.

Thermoplastic resin compositions and temperature-dependent

A microcapsulated pigment contains, as reaction media one or more specific aliphatic acid alcohol esters obtained from monohydric aliphatic alcohols having odd numbers of carbon atoms and aliphatic carboxylic acids, these reaction media in a homogeneous compatible state with chromatic components are occluded in microcapsules to obtain characteristics of thermochromism with a hysteresis range (segment HG) from 8.degree. C. to 30.degree. C.

Temperature-sensitive color-memorizing microencapsulated pigment

A shear-thinning water-based ball-point pen ink composition comprising from 1% by weight to 35% by weight of a colorant, from 2% by weight to 35% by weight of a water-soluble polar solvent, from 1% by weight to 30% by weight of a nonionic surface active agent having an HLB value within the range of from 8 to 12, and the balance being water and adjusting additives, and having a viscosity within the range of from 25 mPa.s to 160 mPa.s (a value at the number of revolution of 100 rpm in an EM type rotational viscometer, 25.degree. C.) and a shear thinning index within the range of from 0.1 to 0.6; the nonionic surface active agent having a mixed phase comprising a phase standing dispersed in the form of fine particles and a phase standing dissolved in a molecular state.

Preparation method for shear-thinning water-based ball-point pen inks

A temperature-dependent color/transparency storing resin layer is composed by dispersing and fixing a mutually dissolved homogeneous composition consisting of (A) an electron-donating color-developing organic compound, (B) a compound having a phenolic hydroxyl radical, and (C) a compound selected from alcohols, esters, ketones and carboxylic acids, in vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate-copolymer matrix resin, as small particles, and capable of exhibiting reversible change in color and in transparency in response to a temperature variation with hysteresis, and selectively storing a state developed above the high trigger temperature and a state developed below the low trigger temperature in a temperature range between the high and low trigger temperatures, wherein the transparency is improved by blending vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate-vinyl alcohol copolymer and/or vinyl chloride-vinylidene chloride copolymer as an agent for improving the transparency in said matrix resin so as to regulate the transparency and to conspicuously improve the transparency especially exhibited in a temperature range above the high trigger temperature, so as to constitute a laminate member to be applied in various fields.

Temperature-dependent color/transparency storing resin composition and

A thermochromic opaque/transparent composition is capable of exhibiting change in transparency together with change in color in response to temperature variation, a laminate member employing the same, and a three-dimensional article capable of concealing and revealing the interior, utilizing the laminate member. A thermochromic opaque/transparent composition is composed of dispersion, in vinyl chloridevinyl acetate copolymer matric resin, which has been obtained by blending with hindered amine compound selected from piperidine derivatives within a particle size range of 0.1 to 2.0 .mu.m, of a reversible thermochromic material consisting of (a) an electron-donating color-developing organic compound, (b) a compound having a phenolic hydroxyl radical, and (c) a homogeneous fused composition containing a compound selected from alcohols, esters, ketones and carboxylic acids, and capable of exhibiting reversible change in transparency together with change in color in response to temperature variation, with hysteresis with a temperature difference of 10.degree. C. to 50.degree. C. between the low and high trigger temperatures.

Thermochromic opaque/transparent composition, laminate member employing

There are provided a thermochromic opaque composition capable of exhibiting change in transparency together with change in color in response to temperature variation, a laminate member employing the same, and a three-dimensional article capable of concealing and revealing the interior, utilizing the laminate member. The thermochromic oaque composition is formed by dispersing a thermochromic material, capable of developing and erasing color by an electron donating-accepting reaction, in small particles in vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate matrix resin. The above-mentioned structure realizes reversible change in transparency, together with change in color, in response to temperature variation, with hysteresis with a temperature difference of 10.degree. C. at minimum to 50.degree. C. between the high and low trigger temperatures.

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Nagoya, Japan

Kuniyuki Senga