Having Constituent Defined In Terms Of Melting Temperature Patents (Class 503/208)
  • Patent number: 5246905
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material which contains an aromatic isocyanate compound, an imino compound having at least one >C.dbd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Mikiya Sekine, Hidetaka Tsukada
  • Patent number: 5219820
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive recording material is composed of a support, and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer formed thereon, having a reversible temperature-dependent transparency, which contains a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material. The organic low-molecular-weight material is in the form of particles, and substantially covered by the matrix resin, and the content thereof in the reversible thermosensitive recording layer is increased from the surface side thereof toward the support side. This reversible thermosensitive recording material can be prepared by a method of coating a solution or dispersion of the matrix resin and the organic low-molecular-weight material on the support, which are dissolved or dispersed in a mixed solvent composed of at least two solvents, each having a different vapor pressure, and drying the solution or dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichika Morohoshi, Yoshihiko Hotta, Yukio Konagaya, Makoto Kawaguchi, Toru Nogiwa, Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5208208
    Abstract: There is disclosed a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on said support; said heat-sensitive recording layer containing an aromatic isocyanate compound and an imino compound as color developing agent and a silane-modified acrylic resin constituting at least a part of binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Makoto Motoda, Hideaki Senoo
  • Patent number: 5179066
    Abstract: This invention relates to a thermosensitive recording material containing at least one of durene derivative represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z represents CH.sub.2 OX or H, X represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group or aryl group, or --COR group where R represents an alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group,in a recording layer which contains a leuco dye and a color-developing agent which reacts with said dye so as to form a color by heating, and the thermosensitive recording material having high color sensitivity can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignees: Yamada Chemical Co., Ltd., Nagase Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Toshiro Narizuka, Katsuhiko Tsunemitsu, Hajime Kawai, Takayuki Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 5179068
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a heat-sensitive recording layer provided on the support, the heat-sensitive recording layer comprises a dye precursor, a developer, a binder and an aromatic compound represented by the following structural formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently hydrogen atoms or lower alkyl groups; R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are independently hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, cycloalkyl groups, alkoxy groups, halogen atoms, aralkyl groups, aryl groups, acyl groups, formyl groups, nitro groups or cyano groups; and X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are oxygen atoms or sulfur atoms. This heat-sensitive recording material is excellent in heat responsiveness and sensitivity, and cause little thermal head stain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventor: Atsuo Goto
  • Patent number: 5179067
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a color forming solution including the benzoin derivatives as a sensitizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Chonju Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk K. Chang, Dong J. Yang, Kyu C. Paik, Don W. Kim, Jae S. Ryu
  • Patent number: 5175138
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a color-forming layer containing a coupling substance which is usually colorless or light-colored and a developer which gives rise to color in the coupling substance upon heating, wherein the color-forming layer contains an organic phosphate, its metal salt or its basic salt of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, M represents a hydrogen atom or a metal atom having a valence of 1 to 4, L represents 0 or 1, m, represents a number of 0 to 1, n represents 1 or 2, and m+n represents the valence of the metal M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Asahi Denka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuo Akutsu, Keiji Tabata
  • Patent number: 5173477
    Abstract: Novel heat-sensitive recording media include a support substrate, e.g., paper or a synthetic polymer film, having a thermosensitive recording layer deposited thereon, such thermosensitive recording layer comprising a colorant precursor, a heat-sensitive developer therefor and at least one polyphenylmethane of the formula (A1): ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be identical or different, are each a halogen atom, NO.sub.2, CN, OCH.sub.3, H or an alkyl radical having up to 5 carbon atoms; n is 3, 4 or 5; p is 1, 2 or 3; g is 0 or 1 and the maximum value of p+g is 2; and the melting point of which polyphenylmethane being at least 50.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Societe Atochem
    Inventors: Raymond Commandeur, Jean-Pierre Sarron
  • Patent number: 5164356
    Abstract: Thermally-responsive record materials are described containing a "complex" material formed from interactions at high pH between zinc stearate and ammonia and/or zinc stearate, ammonia and zinc oxide. The use of these materials in thermally-responsive sheets improves thermal image response and/or improves resistance to thermal image decline upon exposure to elevated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Appleton Papers Inc.
    Inventor: Dean G. Dalebroux
  • Patent number: 5158925
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a thermosensitive coloring layer, formed thereon, which comprises a leuco dye; at least one color developer selected from the group consisting of 1,5-bis(4-hydroxyphenylthio)-3-oxapentane and 1,7-bis(4-hydroxyphenylthio)-3,5-dioxapentane; and an isocyanuric acid derivative of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, provided that at least either R.sup.1 or R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and R.sup.2 represents --C.sub.n H.sub.2n OH in which n is an integer of 0 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohisa Kakuda
  • Patent number: 5158926
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive recording material is composed of a support and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer formed on the support. The reversible thermosensitive recording layer includes a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, and has a temperature-dependent transparency. The matrix resin includes a resin component having a glass transition temperature of 90.degree. C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Makoto Kawaguchi, Kunichika Morohoshi, Yukio Konagaya, Toru Nogiwa, Akira Suzuki, Fumihito Masubuchi
  • Patent number: 5157012
    Abstract: Pressure-sensitive and heat-sensitive record materials are described comprising a substrate, an acidic developer and chromogenic di-[bis-(indolyl) ethylenyl]tetrahalophthalides of the formula ##STR1## wherein each X.sup.1, S.sup.2, X.sup.3, and X.sup.4 is independently selected from chlorine or bromine;wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.7 is independently selected from cycloalkyl, aralkyl, alkoxyalkyl, or aroxyalkyl;wherein each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.8 is independently selected from alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.8) or aryl (substituted or unsubstituted);wherein each of R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6,R.sup.9, R.sup.10, R.sup.11, and R.sup.12 is independently selected from hydrogen alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.8), cycloalkyl, aryl (substituted or unsubstituted), halogen, alkoxy (C.sub.1 -C.sub.8), aroxy, cycloalkoxy, dialkylamino including symmetrical and unsymmetrical alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Appleton Papers Inc.
    Inventors: Ponnampalam Mathiaparanam, Dean G. Dalebroux, Kenneth D. Glanz
  • Patent number: 5143890
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat sensitive recording material, including a substrate and a heat sensitive recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material also including 1-(4-methoxyphenoxy)-2-(2-methylphenoxy)ethane in the heat sensitive recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignees: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Sanko Kaihatsu Kagaku Kenkyusho Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tsuchida, Yukihiro Abe, Tomoyuki Okimoto, Toranosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 5135776
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is obtained by coating an aqueous dispersion which is prepared by mixing an aqueous dispersion of an electron donating colorless dye with an aqueous dispersion of an electron accepting compound on a base sheet. The aqueous dispersion of an electron donating dye is prepared by a method which comprises the steps of uniformly dispersing at least one electron donating colorless dye and at least one heat-fusible substance selected from the group consisting of 2-benzyloxynaphthalene, parabenzyl biphenyl, 1,4-bis(2-vinyloxyethoxy)benzene, bis [2-(4-methoxyphenoxy)ethyl] ether, 1,2-bis (3-methylphenoxy)ethane, 1,2-diphenoxyethane, benzyl 4-methylthiophenyl ether, 1-(2-methylphenoxy)-2-(4-methoxyphenoxy)ethane and oxalic acid dibenzyl ester with a dispersing binder and/or a surface active agent in water; and pulverizing thus obtained dispersion with use of a horizontal sand mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuki Okauchi, Kazuo Kojima
  • Patent number: 5128309
    Abstract: A recording material containing an electron donating colorless dye capable of undergoing a coloration reaction, wherein a metal salt of a salicylic acid derivative represented by the following formula (I) and a fatty acid derivative having a benzotriazole group as a substituent group or an alcohol derivative having a benzotriazole group as a substituent group are provided on a same support: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent each hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Iwakura, Koreshige Ito, Shojiro Sano
  • Patent number: 5116804
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material with a highly improved dynamic coloring sensitivity, comprising a support, and a coloring layer formed thereon, which comprises (a) a leuco dye, (b) at least one of 1,7-bis(4-hydroxphenylthio)-3,5-dioxahepetane and 1,5-bis(4-hydroxyphenylthio)-3-oxapentane as a color developer, and (c) a dibenzyl oxalate derivative having formula (I) as a sensitizer: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represent hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen or a hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Kakuda, Norio Kurisu
  • Patent number: 5116802
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material comprising (a) a base sheet and (b) a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on the base sheet and comprising a colorless or pale-colored basic dye, a color developing material which develops a color on contact with the dye, and a heat-fusible material, the recording material being characterized in that the basic dye comprises 3-di(n-butyl)amino-6-methyl-7-phenylaminofluoran, and that the heat-fusible material comprises di(p-methylbenzyl) oxalate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Arai, Kazuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5116803
    Abstract: The present invention provides the following 3 types of reversible thermosensitive recording materials:1. A reversible thermosensitive recording material having a thermosensitive layer whose transparency reversibly changes depending on its temperature, said layer comprising a resin matrix and an organic low molecular substance dispersed in said resin matrix;2. A reversible thermosensitive recording material having a thermosensitive layer that is consisted essentially of a resin matrix and an organic low molecular substance dispersed in this resin matrix and is arranged to change its transparency reversibly depending upon temperatures, wherein said thermosensitive layer further contains at least one additive; and3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Keishi Kubo
  • Patent number: 5112798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-sensitive recording sheet which comprises a support, an undercoat layer provided on said support and a heat-sensitive color forming layer provided on said undercoat layer, said heat-sensitive color fomring layer containing a colorless or palely colored dye precursor, a developer which reacts with said dye precursor upon application of heat to cause said dye precursor to form color, N-methylolbehenic acid amide, and at least one sensitivity enhancing agent. This heat-sensitive recording sheet is excellent in heat responsiveness, high in sensitivity and superior in mechanical matching properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 5110786
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprises a recording layer formed on a base sheet where the recording layer comprises a colorless or pale colored basic chromogenic material, a color developing material which develops a color by contacting with said chromogenic material, and a stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Arai, Nobuo Kanda, Masaharu Nojima
  • Patent number: 5106814
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material excellent in image stability and heat-responsiveness which contains an aromatic isocyanate compound, an imino compound and at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hiraishi, Akinori Okada, Mikiya Sekine
  • Patent number: 5102857
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a support and a heat-sensitive recording layer provided on the support, the heat-sensitive recording layer comprising a colorless or pale-colored dye precursor, a developer which reacts with the dye precursor to form color upon heating, and two compounds represented by the following formulas (I) and (II): ##STR1## The heat-sensitive recording material causes little fogging and generates little thermal head scum while having almost the same sensitivity and image stability as conventional heat-sensitive recording materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventor: Akinori Okada
  • Patent number: 5098882
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording medium comprising, on a support, a heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing a colorless or light-colored leuco dye (or an electron-donating dye precursor) and a color-developing agent (or an electron-accepting substance) reacting with the leuco dye to develop color as main constituents, said leuco dye being a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents CH.sub.3 --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --CH.sub.2 or CH.sub.3 --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 and Y represents CH.sub.3 --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --Ch.sub.2 or CH.sub.3, and said heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing at least one of the compounds represented by the general formula (II) and (III): ##STR2## where R.sub.1, R.sub.1 ' are respectively any one of H, Cl, and CH.sub.3, and may be the same with or different from each other: ##STR3## where R.sub.2, R.sub.2 ' are respectively any one of H and CH.sub.3, and may be the same with or different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Teraji, Yasunori Shimada, Motokazu Aono, Hisashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5087601
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive recording material is disclosed, which comprises (i) a reversible thermosensitive recording layer which comprises as the main components a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, and (ii) a light reflection layer made of a metal thin film, which is preferably surface-treated to have a specular gloss of 70 to 250% in accordance with JIS Z8741 or a surface roughness of 0.5 to 10 .mu.m in terms of the ten-point average roughness defined in JIS B0601. This reversible thermosensitive recording material may further comprises a crystal-growth controlling agent in the reversible thermosensitive recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Keishi Kubo, Makoto Kawaguchi, Toru Nogiwa
  • Patent number: 5081099
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material wherein a color-forming layer comprising a coupling substance which is usually colorless or light-colored and a developer which gives rise to color in the coupling substance upon heating further contains, as a sensitizer, a tetrahydronaphthalene compound of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents an alkylene group, --O--CO--O--, --O--CO-- or --O--R'.sub.n Y--, n represents 1 or 2, Y represents --O-- or --S--, R' represents an alkylene group, and R represents a phenyl, alkylphenyl or tetrahydronaphthyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Adeka Argus Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Akutsu, Syuji Iwakura, Keiji Oya
  • Patent number: 5081098
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material that utilizes the color forming reaction between at least one basic dye and a developer that is capable of forming a color upon contact with said basic dye is characterized in that the heat-sensitive recording layer of said material contains both dihydroxydiphenyl ether represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## and a compound represented by the general formula (II): ##STR2## (where R is H or C.sub.n H.sub.2n+1, with n being an integer of 1-5). This heat-sensitive recording material has a sufficiently high sensitivity for color formation to kake it suitable for use in a broad range of practical applications and it also exhibits enhanced keeping quality and whiteness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Fukui
  • Patent number: 5071821
    Abstract: Thermally sensitive record material (thermal paper) using 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4-methylpentane as co-reactant with conventional electron donating chromogenic compounds and a combination of a long chain fatty acid amide was melting between 80.degree. and 140.degree. C. and a sensitizer melting between 60.degree. and 120.degree. C. and selected from diaryl ethers, acetoacetic anilides, phenyl hydroxynaphthoates, aryl or aralkyl substituted biphenyls and diaryl carbonates have high thermal sensitivity and good background whiteness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
    Inventors: Vivienne J. Smith, Debra J. Clark, Keith B. Damarell
  • Patent number: 5063197
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a heat-sensitive recording layer provided on the support, said heat-sensitive recording layer comprising an electron-donating, colorless or pale-colored dye precursor, an electron-accepting developer which reacts with the dye precursor to form images upon heating, a binder, and a specific aromatic compound. The heat-sensitive recording material has an excellent heat responsiveness, and hence recorded images having a sufficient optical density can be printed even with low energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Atsuo Goto, Fumio Okumura, Kazuhiko Ito
  • Patent number: 5043312
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a heat-sensitive recording layer provided on the support, said heat-sensitive recording layer comprising an aromatic or heterocyclic isocyanate compound, an imino compound, a binder, a specific alcoholic compound, and preferably, a specific biphenyl derivative. The heat-sensitive recording material have an excellent image preservability and heat responsiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hiraishi, Akinori Okada, Mikiya Sekine
  • Patent number: 5036039
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material comprising an aromatic isocyanate compound, an imino compound which reacts with said aromatic isocyanate compound upon application of heat to form color, and a support, wherein a coating color comprising a dispersion obtained by pulverizing a mixture of said aromatic isocyanate compound and an alcoholic compound has been coated on the support. This heat-sensitive recording material is excellent in image stability and sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Mikiya Sekine, Shigetoshi Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 5034301
    Abstract: A transfer recording medium comprises a support and a recording layer formed thereon comprising at least a colorant and a functional component sensitive to provision of light energy and heat energy. The recording layer is composed to have a specifically high sensitivity selective to provision of both light energy and heat energy defined as follows. The adhesion force f.sub.1 between the support and the recording layer and the adhesion force f.sub.2 between the recording layer and a transfer-receiving medium such as plain paper satisfy the relations of f.sub.1 >f.sub.2 at a lower temperature and f.sub.1 <f.sub.2 at a higher heated temperature. A minimum exposure quantity is defined as a minimum quantity of light, with a wavelength to which the functional component in the recording layer is sensitive at 100.degree. C., providing f.sub.1 >f.sub.2 at the higher heated temperature when the recording layer is exposed to the light and then heated. Then, the recording layer provides f.sub.1 <f.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Miyagawa, Masanori Takenouchi, Norio Ohkuma
  • Patent number: 5032567
    Abstract: A hydantoin compound of the formula: ##STR1## (wherein R stands for an alkyl group of 8 to 20 carbon atoms) increases the sensitivity of a color developing reaction of a heat-sensitive recording material and enhances the high-speed recording property of the recording material without sacrifice of the whiteness thereof. The heat-sensitive recording material containing the hydantoin compound is novel to the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ohtsubo, Kouhei Morikawa, Yohko Kataoka, Sumio Soya
  • Patent number: 5019548
    Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material being characterized in that, as the color acceptor is used at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 4-hydroxy-4'-isopropyloxydiphenylsulfone, 4,4'-(1,3-dimethylbutylidene) bisphenol, 4,4'-(1-phenylethylidene)bisphenol, 4,4'-(p-phenylenediisopropylidene)bisphenol and 4,4'-(m-phenylenediisopropylidene) bisphenol, and to the recording layer is added at least one of a heat-fusible substance represented by the formula [I] ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C.sub.1.about.4 alkyl or C.sub.1.about.4 alkoxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignees: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Sanko Kaihatsu Kagaku Kenkyusho Corporation
    Inventors: Toshitake Suzuki, Fumio Seyama, Shuki Okauchi, Toranosuke Saito, Masakatu Kitani, Takashi Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 5017545
    Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a heat sensitive recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material being characterized in that the material has a heat sensitive recording layer having incorporated therein (1) a heat-fusible substance exhibiting a weight reduction of at least 5% at 200.degree. C. based on the weight at 25.degree. C. under the condition of 20.degree. C./min in the rate of rise of temperature, (2) a wax, (3) a lubricant, and (4) an oil-absorbing pigment at least 85 ml/100 g in oil absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Company, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuo Kanda, Ritsuo Mandoh, Masaharu Nojima, Naoto Arai
  • Patent number: 5008236
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material with an excellent recording sensitivity and capable of recording thereon high quality images at a high recording speed, comprising a heat-sensitive color-forming layer formed on a substrate sheet and comprising a colorless dye precursor, a color-developing agent, a binder and a sensitizing agent consisting essentially of 1,2-diphenoxybenzene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Kunitaka Toyofuku, Akiko Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 5001104
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material in which a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a colorless to light-colored basic Leuco dyestuff and a color developer is tightly contacted with a thermal head to effect color development, characterized in that ammonium zirconyl carbonate is contained in said heat-sensitive color-developing layer or in an undercoating layer so as to offer a heat-sensitive recording material which is superior in its high speed printing properties and free from printing hindrances caused by smudge deposition or sticking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Morita, Masaaki Matsuoka, Satoshi Fukui, Kyoko Koyabu, Tatsuya Murata
  • Patent number: 4999332
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a dye precursor which is colorless or light-colored in the usual state and a color developing agent capable of reacting with said dye precursor upon heating to develop a color which is a combination of compounds of the following chemical formulas (I) and (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Limited
    Inventors: Fumio Okumura, Akinori Okada, Kazuyoshi Kondo
  • Patent number: 4996183
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material having a thermosensitive color forming layer containing a specific dispersing agent and binder mixture showing a softening point of at least 70.degree. C. can minimize occurrence of head stain at a thermal head in thermosensitive recording. The combination of sulfonic acid-containing polyvinyl alcohol and polyacrylamide or acrylamide-acrylonitrile copolymer is preferable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Otani, Shigetoshi Hiraishi, Kenji Hyodo
  • Patent number: 4994431
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support having provided thereon a heat-sensitive color forming layer containing a colorless or slightly colored electron donating dye precursor and an electron accepting compound capable of forming color by the reaction with the electron donating dye precursor, wherein the heat-sensitive color forming layer contains a 1-alkoxyphenoxy-2-aryloxypropane. The recording material exhibits high sensitivity and satisfactory preservation stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Iwakura, Naoto Yanagihara, Masato Satomura, Takayuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4988662
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording sheet comprising a substrate sheet and coated on the substrate, a film comprising a color-forming lactone compound, an acidic substance and a sensitizer, said sensitizer being a substituted or unsubstituted phenacyl ether compound or a substituted or unsubstituted phenacyl sulfide compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kikuo Tsuchiya, Masaji Inagaki, Shingo Araki
  • Patent number: 4985390
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium comprises a substrate and a thermosensitive, coloring layer, provided on the substrate, comprising a binder, a colorless or light-colored electron-donating dye, an electron-accepting compound to react with the electron-donating dye and form a coloring matter and then an ester compound obtained from a fatty acid having 20 to 28 carbon atoms and a straight or cyclic alcohol, the ester having a melting point of 50 to 100 degree C. and one or more non-phenolic hydroxy group. It is improved in prevention from fogging and sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko Nakashima, Yoshiji Kanoh, Atsushi Suzuki, Sadashi Ueda
  • Patent number: 4985391
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed. The material comprises a support having provided thereon a heat-sensitive color forming layer containing an electron donating dye precursor and an electron accepting compound, said heat-sensitive color forming layer containing at least one compound selected from an aromatic polyether and an aromatic polyester, and an aromatic ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Ikeda, Ken Iwakura, Masanobu Takashima
  • Patent number: 4983568
    Abstract: There is disclosed a thermosensitive recording material comprising an ordinarily colorless or slightly colored dye precursor, an electron receptive compound (developer) coloring said dye precursor by reacting when heated, and a compound of following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents hydrogen atom, alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be different from each other; may also be linked together to form cycloalkyl, cycloether, and the like; and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents hydrogen atom, alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy or aryl group and halogen atom, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may be different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4981835
    Abstract: A recording material comprising an electron donating colorless dye and an electron accepting compound is disclosed, the recording material further comprising, as a heat-fusible substance, a benzyl ether derivative represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a halogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group; and when R is a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, X, Y and Z, which may be same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a halogen atom; and when R is a halogen atom, X represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, and Y and Z each represents a hydrogen atom.The recording material exhibits improved color developability and color forming sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Iwakura, Naoto Yanagihara, Takayuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4980336
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material wherein 1,2-bis(3,4-dimethylphenyl)ethane is contained as a sensitizer in a color-forming layer comprising a usually colorless or light-colored coupling substance and a developer which causes coloring of the coupling substance upon heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Adeka Argus Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Akutsu, Syuji Iwakura, Keiji Tabata, Keiji Oya
  • Patent number: 4966883
    Abstract: A composition for use in a thermal-sensitive paper coating and a heat-sensitive recording material utilizing the coating, which composition comprises a phenolic developer, e.g., a traditional low speed phenolic having a melting point greater than 120.degree. C., and a pseudo developer. The pseudo developer is combined with the phenolic developer in an amount effective to provide for the formation of homogenous phase when the composition is melted, which phase further solidifies back to a single crystalline phase when cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: James River Graphics, Inc.
    Inventors: Nils T. Anderson, Boris J. Katsen
  • Patent number: 4965237
    Abstract: This invention relates to a thermal printing material comprising a substrate and a thermal printing layer formed thereon containing an aromaticity-possessing isocyanate compound, an imino compound having at least one>C.dbd.NH group which reacts with said aromaticity-possessing isocyanate compound on heating to produce color, and one or more aniline derivatives having at least one amino group, said thermal printing layer being intended to improve the image storage properties, in particular, the storage properties of color-undeveloped portion (ground), and it can be utilized in recorders for measurements, facsimiles, printers, terminals of computers, labels, and automatic ticket vending machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd., Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hiraishi, Kazuo Kabashima
  • Patent number: 4956332
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material with an excellent recording sensitivity, heat stability and resistance to the whitening phenomenon, comprising a heat-sensitive color developing layer formed on a substrate sheet and containing, in addition to a colorless dye precursor, color developing agent and binder, a heat-fusible sensitizing agent consisting essentially of at least one member selected from 1,4-bis(p-tolyloxy)benzene, 1,4-bis(3', 4'-dimethylphenyloxy)benzene and 1,4-bis(3',5'-dimethylphenyloxy)benzene, in an amount of 10% to 1,000% based on the weight of the color developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Kunitaka Toyofuku, Akiko Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4956333
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material characterized in that a heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing a compound represented by the formula (I), ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, a leuco dye and an acidic substance is formed on a support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Kawahara, Masaharu Nomura, Hiroaki Tsugawa, Hirofumi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 4950637
    Abstract: In a heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a heat sensitive recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor which is reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material characterized in that at least one of the compounds of the formula (I) is contained in the heat sensitive recording layer ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are same or different and are hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C.sub.1 .about.C.sub.5 alkyl or C.sub.1 .about.C.sub.5 alkoxyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuki Okauchi, Toshitake Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Nukushina, Masato Kawamura