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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1997
Atsushi Kutami, Shizuoka, JP;
Tohru Nogiwa, Shizuoka, JP;
Fumihito Masubuchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Haruhiro Horiuchi, Fukui, JP;
Tetsuya Amano, Shizuoka, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reversible thermosensitive recording material has a support and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer formed thereon, capable of reversibly assuming at least two different visible states depending upon the temperature thereof, containing an organic low-molecular weight material and a resin composition in which the organic low-molecular weight material is dispersed, the resin composition including a matrix resin, and a dispersion resin which has a glass transition temperature higher than that of the matrix resin, and having resin aggregates which are separately dispersed in the matrix resin in such a manner that the resin aggregates are associated with the matrix resin.