Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kyohji Okada

Hiromi Furuya

Satoshi Yamamoto

Kyoji Tsutsui

Kazukiyo Nagai

Tamotsu Horiuchi

Shinya Kawahara

Kunio Hayakawa

Hongguo Li

Hitoshi Shimbo

A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, the photosensitive layer including a cross-linking surface layer including a cross-linked copolymer of a radical polymerizable monomer (I) having at least three functional groups without a charge transport structure and a radical polymerizable monomer (II) having a charge transport structure, and a polysiloxane-acryl block copolymer having a charge transport property.

Photoreceptor, image formation method, image forming apparatus and process cartridge

The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer contains an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound contains a phenol compound expressed by General Formula (1): 

Phenol compound, reversible thermosensitive recording medium, reversible thermosensitive recording label, reversible thermosensitive recording member, image-processing apparatus and image-processing method

The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer comprises an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound comprises a phenol compound represented by the General Formula (1): where, in the General Formula (1) 'l' represents an integer of 1 to 3, 'm' represents an integer of 1 or more, and &#x201c;n&#x201d; represents an integer of 7 or more.

Phenol compound, reversible thermosensitive recording medium, reversible thermosensitive recording label, reversible thermosensitive recording member, image-processing apparatus and imaging-processing method

A reversible thermosensitive coloring material which can reversibly achieve a relatively colored state and a relatively discolored state depending on a temperature to which the coloring material is heated or a cooling speed at which the coloring material is cooled after heated. The coloring material including an electron donating coloring agent; an electron accepting color developer configured to color the coloring agent; and a compound having a Zwitter ion in which a total of charges in a molecule of the compound is zero. A reversible thermosensitive recording material including a substrate and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer, which is located overlying the substrate and which includes the reversible thermosensitive coloring material.

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Kyohji Okada