Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Norio Kurisu

Keishi Kubo

Hideo Aihara

Tsutomu Matsuda

Yasutomo Mori

Yasuhiko Watanabe

Masaru Shimada

Keishi Taniguchi

Hideo Watanabe

Masanaka Nagamoto

Nobuyoshi Watanabe

Tomohisa Kakuda

Toshinobu Iwata

Katsunori Hiroishi

Yoshifumi Noge

Shinobu Miyauchi

Mikio Goto

Kazuhiro Takei

A thermosensitive recording material having a support and a thermosensitive coloring layer formed on the support, capable of inducing color development by the application of heat thereto is disclosed, the stiffness of the thermosensitive recording material in the lengthwise direction thereof in accordance with JIS-P-8125 being less than 0.45 exp.sup.0.018x (gf.multidot.cm) wherein x represents the thickness (.mu.m) of the recording material measured in accordance with JIS-P-8118, provided that the lengthwise direction of the recording material is (i) a machine direction in which cellulose fiber contained in a natural material for use in the support is oriented, or (ii) a plane direction of the recording material when a synthetic material is used for the support.

Thermosensitive recording material

A thermosensitive recording material is composed of a support, a thermosensitive coloring layer capable of inducing color formation upon application of heat thereto, formed on the support, and an overcoat layer formed on the thermosensitive coloring layer, the overcoat layer being essentially composed of a resin component which is crosslinked by a glycidylamine compound serving as a crosslinking agent for the resin component. A coating liquid for the formation of the overcoat layer is essentially composed of the resin component and the glycidylamine compound.

A thermosensitive recording material being composed of a support; a thermosensitive coloring layer, formed on the support, which contains a leuco dye and a color developer capable of inducing color formation in the leuco dye upon application of heat thereto; an overcoat layer, formed on the thermosensitive coloring layer, which contains a first resin component crosslinked by a first crosslinking agent; and a backcoat layer, formed on the back side of the support opposite to the thermosensitive coloring layer, which contains a second resin component crosslinked by a second crosslinking agent, with at least the first resin component being different from the second resin component or the first crosslinking agent being different from the second crosslinking agent.

A thermosensitive recording material is composed of a support, a thermosensitive coloring layer capable of inducing color formation upon application of heat thereto, formed on the support, and a protective layer including a resin and a filler formed on the thermosensitive coloring layer, the filler containing aluminum hydroxide or/and aluminum oxide particles, having a volume mean diameter of 1 .mu.m or less, with the amount of the particles with a diameter of 4 .mu.m or less being 90 vol. % or more in the entire particles.

A thermosensitive recording material with a highly improved dynamic coloring sensitivity, comprising a support, and a coloring layer formed thereon, which comprises (a) a leuco dye, (b) at least one of 1,7-bis(4-hydroxphenylthio)-3,5-dioxahepetane and 1,5-bis(4-hydroxyphenylthio)-3-oxapentane as a color developer, and (c) a dibenzyl oxalate derivative having formula (I) as a sensitizer: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represent hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen or a hydroxyl group.

A thermosensitive recording material comprising (a) a support, and (b) a thermosensitive recording layer formed on the support, comprising a leuco dye and a color developing agent comprising a metal salt or metal complex of a compound having formula (I), which is capable of inducing color formation in the leuco dye upon application of heat thereto: ##STR1## wherein X represents a halogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an alkoxyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently represent hydrogen, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aralkyloxyl group having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryloxyl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkylthio group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aralkylthio group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms or an arylthio group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may form together with an adjacent benzene ring a naphthalene ring, a tetrahydronaphthalene ring or an indan ring; and m is an integer of 1 to 4.

A thermosensitive recording material is disclosed, which comprises a substrate, a thermosensitive coloring layer comprising a leuco dye and a color developer capable of inducing color formation in the leuco dye, formed on the substrate, and a protective layer comprising at least one inorganic pigment selected from the group consisting of silica and calcium carbonate, each having an average particle diameter of 0.1 .mu.m or less, and a water-soluble binder, formed on the thermosensitive coloring layer.

A thermosensitive recording material comprises (a) a support member, (b) a thermosensitive coloring layer formed on the support member, comprising a colorless or light-colored leuco dye, a zinc thiocyanate antipyrine complex having the following formula, which serves as a color developer capable of inducing color formation in the leuco dye upon application of heat thereto, and (c) a protective layer formed on the thermosensitive coloring layer, consisting essentially of a water-soluble resin for protecting the thermosensitive coloring layer.

A thermosensitive image transfer medium consisting of (i) an image transfer sheet having an image transfer layer consisting essentially of a leuco dye, and (ii) an acceptor sheet having an acceptor layer consisting essentially of a coloring agent with a melting point of not higher than 200.degree. C., which induces color formation in the leuco dye, and, of the image transfer layer and the acceptor layer, at least one layer containing a particular image transfer auxiliary agent for facilitating image formation on the acceptor sheet.

Thermosensitive image transfer medium

A thermosensitive image transfer medium comprising: (a) an image transfer sheet having an image transfer layer comprising a leuco dye; and (b) an acceptor sheet having an acceptor layer comprising a coloring agent which induces color formation in the leuco dye, and, of the image transfer layer and the acceptor layer, at least the image transfer layer further containing a porous filler having an oil absorption of 50 ml/100 g or more as measured in accordance with the Japanese Industrial Standard K 5101.

A thermo-developable type diazo copying material including a substrate and a heat sensitive recording layer, superposed on said substrate, which consists essentially of a diazo compound, a coupler and a heat-fusible color assistant, characterized in that said heat sensitive recording layer is of the multilayered type comprising a diazo compound-containing layer and a coupler-containing layer, and said coupler is composed of one or two or more of the compounds having the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen, halogen, an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms or an alkoxyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms; R.sup.1 is an alkyl group having 10-25 carbon atoms; and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1-30 carbon atoms.

Thermo-developable type diazo copying material with 2-naphthol coupler

A process for the production of a thermo-developable type diazo copying material which comprises the steps of adding a heat fusible color assistant having a melting point of 50.degree. to 150.degree. C. to at least one selected from the group consisting of (a) an aqueous dispersion A containing a diazonium salt and fine particles of a hydrophobic resin consisting of a polymer of vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, styrene, acrylic ester, mechacrylic ester or olefin or a copolymer containing at least one member of aforesaid monomers as the constitution unit or a mixture of said polymer with said copolymer and (b) an aqueous solution or dispersion B containing coupler; then applying these aqueous dispersion A and aqueous solution or dispersion B onto a substrate in the order named; and drying same.

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