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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1978
Tadashi Fujii, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A recording method wherein electrostatic atomization of a liquid is applied to the phenomenon that when a coloring material solution holding member is partly immersed in a solution of coloring material, the solution juts up from the surface thereof in accordance with the affinity of the material of the coloring material solution holding member with the solution. The coloring material solution holding member is formed of an insulating material and has strips of a conductive material arranged in spaced relation on opposite surfaces of the member in such a manner that the strips of the conductive material on opposite surfaces thereof are disposed in staggered relation. The conductive material is of the type which has high affinity with a particular solution of coloring material. The coloring material solution holding member of the aforesaid construction is used as recording electrode medium which is partly immersed in the solution of coloring material in a manner to form a certain angle with the surface of the solution. A complementary electrode having a copy sheet maintained in contact therewith and moving in one direction relative to the surface of the solution is arranged in spaced superposed relation to the coloring material solution holding member serving as recording electrode, and signal voltage pulses are impressed between the two electrode whereby an image can be recorded by virtue of the electrostatic atomization phenomenon of the solution of coloring material occurring at the surface of the solution of coloring material.