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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1997
Tetsuya Amano, Numazu, JP;
Yoshihiko Hotta, Mishima, JP;
Kunichika Morohoshi, Numazu, JP;
Kazumi Suzuki, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reversible thermosensitive recording material which has a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate and in which the recording layer assumes a first color state at a first coloring temperature higher than room temperature when the recording layer is heated by applying heat energy in a first color recordable energy range and in which the recording layer then assumes a second color state when heated at a second coloring temperature higher than the first coloring temperature and then cooled, wherein provided that an initial first color recordable energy range is E.sub.1 and a changed first color recordable energy range of the recording material which has been preserved at 35.degree. C. for 48 hours is E.sub.D, a changing rate E.sub.c of a first color recordable energy range, i.e., 100(E.sub.1 -E.sub.D)/E.sub.1, is less than about 35%.