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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tsutomu Watanabe, Shizuoka-ken, JP;

Hirofumi Mitsuo, Shizuoka-ken, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M 5/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M 5/30 ;
Abstract

The present invention provides a heat sensitive recording material which has high sensitivity and high degree of color formation, excellent storage stability in image portions and non-image portions (i.e., background portions), high whiteness in background portions, and can stably maintain a high contrast image for a long period of time. The heat sensitive recording material has, on a support, a heat sensitive color-forming layer having an electron donating colorless dye and an electron accepting compound. At least one type of the electron accepting compound is 2,4-bis(phenylsulfonyl) phenol, and the heat sensitive color-forming layer further has 2-naphthylbenzyl ether and an amide compound as thermally fusible substances.


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