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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2005
Satoshi Yamamoto, Numazu, JP;
Kyoji Tsutsui, Mishima, JP;
Hiromi Furuya, Sunto, JP;
Kyohji Okada, Fuji, JP;
Kunio Hayakawa, Mishima, JP;
Shinya Kawahara, Numazu, JP;
Hitoshi Shimbo, Sunto, JP;
Satoshi Yamamoto, Numazu, JP;
Kyoji Tsutsui, Mishima, JP;
Hiromi Furuya, Sunto, JP;
Kyohji Okada, Fuji, JP;
Kunio Hayakawa, Mishima, JP;
Shinya Kawahara, Numazu, JP;
Hitoshi Shimbo, Sunto, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer comprises an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound comprises a phenol compound represented by the General Formula (1): where, in the General Formula (1) 'l' represents an integer of 1 to 3, 'm' represents an integer of 1 or more, and “n” represents an integer of 7 or more.