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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2006
Satoshi Yamamoto, Odawara, JP;
Kyoji Tsutsui, Mishima, JP;
Hiromi Furuya, Shizuoka, JP;
Kyohji Okada, Fuji, JP;
Satoshi Yamamoto, Odawara, JP;
Kyoji Tsutsui, Mishima, JP;
Hiromi Furuya, Shizuoka, JP;
Kyohji Okada, Fuji, 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 contains 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 contains a phenol compound expressed by General Formula (1):