Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takehito Yamaguchi

Kyoji Tsutsui

Hiroshi Goto

Masaru Shimada

Keishi Taniguchi

Mitsunobu Morita

Keishi Kubo

Eiichi Kawamura

Ichiro Sawamura

Hiroki Kuboyama

Shoji Maruyama

Hideaki Ema

Takayuki Sasaki

Kunio Hayakawa

Hiroaki Matsui

Hitoshi Shimbo

Yutaka Kuga

Norihiko Inaba

Tomoyuki Kugo

Tohru Kitano

Provided is a heat-sensitive adhesive agent that mainly comprises a thermoplastic resin and a heat-meltable substance capable of melting upon heating, and further comprises swellable mica.

Heat-sensitive adhesive agent and heat-sensitive adhesive sheet

A heat-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesive which contains at least a thermoplastic resin and a thermofusible material, wherein the thermoplastic resin has a glass transition temperature of &#x2212;70&#xb0; C. to &#x2212;30&#xb0; C., and the thermofusible material comprises triphenylphosphine, and at least any one of tris(2,4-di-t-butylphenyl)phosphite and tetrakis[3-(3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate]methane, or a heat-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesive which contains at least a thermoplastic resin, a thermofusible material and a non-thermofusible material, wherein the thermofusible material contains triphenylphosphine.

Heat-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesive and heat-sensitive adhesive material

A thermosensitive adhesive composition including a thermosensitive plastic resin, a dispersing agent, a solid plasticizing agent and a eutectic agent represented by the following chemical structure (1): wherein Xand Xindependently represent any one of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom and an alkyl group, p and q independently represent an integer of from 1 to 5.

Thermosensitive adhesive composition, method of manufacturing the same and thermosensitive adhesive material

In order to provide heat-sensitive adhesive materials that represent high pressure-sensitive adhesive strength with respect to rough adherends such as cardboards or polyolefin wraps and lower decrease of adhesive strength with time, are thermally activated with lower energy and exhibit excellent blocking resistance, heat-sensitive adhesive materials are disclosed that contain a support, an underlayer, and a heat-sensitive adhesive layer, in this order, wherein the underlayer comprises a thermoplastic resin and a hollow filler, and the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin is &#x2212;70&#xb0; C. or higher and below 0&#xb0; C.

Heat-sensitive adhesive material

A method of reversible selective manifestation of different states of a functional element is disclosed. The functional element is composed of at least two compounds and is capable of alternatively assuming (a) a first state in which the two compounds interact to form a regular aggregate structure, or (b) a second state in which the two compounds do not interact, and at least one of the two compounds is in an aggregate or crystallized state. The respective conditions for attaining one of the two states can be reversibly and extremely speedily controlled, for instance, by use of a heat application device.

Method of reversible selective manifestation of different states of functional element

This invention generally relates to a reversible thermosensitive coloring composition and a thermosensitive recording medium using thereof which have high light-resisting characteristics, wherein coloring and decolorizing can be repeated suitably. A reversible thermosensitive coloring composition of this invention comprises an electron donating chromophoric compound and an electron accepting compound, which has a colored state and a decolorized state based on a heated temperature and a difference between cooling speeds after being heated, said electron donating chromophoric compound including a compound having a general formula (I) ##STR1##

Reversible thermosensitive coloring composition and a thermosensitive

A reversible thermosensitive coloring recording method for producing multi-color images by use of a reversible thermosensitive coloring recording medium which is composed of a support and a reversible thermosensitive coloring recording layer containing a plurality of reversible thermosensitive coloring compositions, each coloring composition being independently present separated from the other coloring compositions, and capable of reversibly forming a color development state with a different color in a predetermined color development temperature range, and a decolorization state in a predetermined decolorization temperature range by the application of heat thereto and maintaining the above two states at room temperature, the decolorization temperature range being located lower in terms of temperature than the color development temperature range therefor, comprises the steps of: temporarily applying heat to the recording medium to a color development temperature at which at least two of the coloring compositions are colored or to a temperature higher than the color development temperature to obtain a mixed coloring state, and decolorizing at least one of the coloring compositions which have been colored, thereby producing multi-color images.

Reversible thermosensitive coloring recording method, recording medium

Reversible theromosensitive coloring recording method, recording medium

A reversible thermosensitive coloring composition is composed of (i) an electron-donor coloring compound and (ii) an electron-acceptor compound selected from the group consisting of an organic phosphoric acid compound, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, and a phenolic compound, each having a straight chain or branched chain alkyl group or alkyenyl group having 12 or more carbon atoms, the electron-donor coloring compound and the electron-acceptor compound being capable of reacting to induce color formation in the reversible thermosensitive coloring composition at the eutectic temperature thereof. The electron-donor coloring compound and the electron-acceptor compound, when fused and colored in a mixed state, with application of heat thereto, followed by rapidly cooling the fused mixture, exhibit an exothermic peak in a temperature elevation process in a differential scanning calorific analysis or in a differential thermal analysis. A recording medium and display medium using the above reversible thermosensitive coloring composition, a recording method of using the recording medium, a display method of using the display medium, a display method of using the display medium, and a display apparatus using the display medium are disclosed.

Reversible thermosensitive coloring composition, recording medium,

A reversible thermosensitive coloring composition is composed of (i) an electron-donor coloring compound and (ii) an electron-acceptor compound selected from the group consisting of an organic phosphoric acid compound, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, and a phenolic compound, each having a straight chain or branched chain alkyl group or alkenyl group having 12 or more carbon atoms, the electron-donor coloring compound and the electron-acceptor compound being capable of reacting to induce color formation in the reversible thermosensitive coloring composition at the eutectic temperature thereof. The electron-donor coloring compound and the electron-acceptor compound, when fused and colored in a mixed state, with application of heat thereto, followed by rapidly cooling the fused mixture, exhibit an exothermic peak in a temperature elevation process in a differential scanning calorific anlaysis or in a differential thermal analysis. A recording medium and display medium using the above reversible thermosensitive coloring composition, a recording method of using the recording medium, a display method of using the display medium, a display method of using the display medium, and a display apparatus using the display medium are disclosed.

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Numazu, Japan

Takehito Yamaguchi