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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2000
Yoshihiko Hotta, Shizuoka, JP;
Kunichika Moroboshi, Shizuoka, JP;
Masafumi Torii, Shizuoka, JP;
Kunitoshi Sugiyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Hideyuki Kobori, Shizuoka, JP;
Katsushi Sugiyama, Chiba, JP;
Katsuaki Kokubo, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Kawai, Chiba, JP;
Kazuo Hosoda, Saitama, JP;
Masafumi Moriya, Saitama, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A reversible thermosensitive recording medium includes a reversible thermosensitive recording layer including a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, of which transparency is reversibly changeable depending upon the temperature thereof, and having (1) a transparentizing upper-limit temperature of 125° C. or more, (2) a temperature difference of 20° C. or less between said transparentizing upper-limit temperature and an opaqueness initiation lower-limit temperature, and (3) a transparentizing initiation temperature of less than 95° C., and a method of recording and erasing images, using the recording medium, a method of producing the recording medium, and the application thereof a card, a label, writable or rewritable disk cartridge, disk and tape cassette are proposed.