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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2003
Hiroshi Kamikawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Kamikawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material including a support having disposed thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer containing microcapsules in which an electron-donating dye precursor is encapsulated and outside which an electron-accepting compound is present, the electron-donating dye precursor being capable of reacting with the electron-accepting compound to develop color, wherein the microcapsules include at least two kinds of microcapsules having mutually different volume average particle diameters or different glass transition temperatures. A difference between each of the glass transition temperatures of the at least two microcapsules having different glass transition temperatures is preferably in a range from 20° C. to 70° C. According to the invention, a heat-sensitive recording material, which is superior in the reproduction of the gradation of an image and enables recording at high density, is obtained.