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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Hidehiro Mochizuki, Numazu, JP;
Masanaga Imamura, Fujinomiya, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A noncontact-reading type IC card image receiving material useful for sublimation thermal transfer recording is provided which is made by forming a resin cover film overlying a substrate including an IC chip and an antenna and in which an image is recorded on a surface of the receiving material or a receiving layer optionally formed on the receiving material by imagewise heating a sublimation thermal transfer recording material having an ink layer which contacts the receiving material or the receiving layer, wherein the resin cover film is formed by an injection and compression molding method. The receiving material is preferably subjected to a heat treatment after an image is formed thereon.