Abstract: An erasable image forming material includes a color former, a developer, and a binder resin, the color former containing Crystal Violet Lactone and a specific fluorane compound can enhance light fastness as well as heat decolorizing performance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a decolorable image forming material having a color former, a developer, a binder resin and a surfactant. The present invention also relates to a decolorable image forming material having a powder including a color former, a developer and a binder resin, and a surfactant externally added to the powder.

Abstract: An image decolorizing apparatus decolorizing an image formed on a printed medium using a decolorable image forming material containing a color former, a developer, and a binder resin, has a scratching mechanism scratching the printed medium at a temperature lower than a softening temperature of the binder resin, and a heater heating a scratched surface of the printed medium to a temperature higher than the softening temperature of the binder resin.

Abstract: A decolorable image forming material contains a color former and a developer, that develop a colored state through interaction therebetween and can be decolored by heating or contact with a solvent, in which the developer contains two or more compounds whose deference in molecular weight is 15 or more.

Abstract: A decoloring apparatus for an image forming material comprising means for bringing a solvent into contact with an image forming material formed on a paper sheet and containing a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, and means for removing a residual solvent from the paper sheet.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus according to the present invention, which records an image onto a recording medium by flying an ink-droplet from a surface of an ink by a pressure of ultrasonic beam, is characterized by comprising ultrasonic generating element array which has a plurality of ultrasonic elements arranged in array for emitting ultrasonic beams, driving means for applying a plurality of pulses having different phases each other to converging ultrasonic beams by interfering said plurality of ultrasonic beams with each other emitted from said ultrasonic generating elements of a part of said ultrasonic generating element array, which are simultaneously driven, with sequentially shifting said ultrasonic generating elements simultaneously driven to an array direction, and converging means for converging each of said plurality of ultrasonic beams in a direction of perpendicular to the array direction.

Abstract: A paper classification apparatus includes a heater for heating paper or a solvent supply unit for supplying a solvent to the paper, a detector, a computer, and a selector guide. The detector detects the reflection density of the paper after being heated or supplied with the solvent. The computer compares the detected reflecting density of the paper with a predetermined reference value stored in a memory. The selector guide classifies the paper on the basis of a comparison result of the reflection density. This apparatus can classify plain paper having an image formed with an ordinary image forming material, plain paper having an image formed with an erasable image forming material, and thermosensible paper.

Abstract: A method of decoloring an image formed on a paper sheet by using an image forming material containing a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, comprising the steps of bringing a solvent into contact with the image forming material for decoloring the image, and removing the residual solvent from the paper sheet.

Abstract: A decolorable material contains a color former, a developer, a matrix material, and a decolorant capable of physically or chemically adsorbing the developer, the developer having a molecular weight of 120 to 210. The material is capable of forming a clear image, and the image formed from the material can be decolored well, even when the amount of the decolorant used is small.

Abstract: A decolorable image forming material containing a color former, a developer and a binder resin, in which the binder resin has a property that it is compatible with the color former when the material is in contact with a solvent and that it keeps the compatible state when the solvent is removed, or has a property that it shifts an equilibrium between the color former and the developer to a non-developed side when the temperature of the material is raised and that it keeps the state shifted to the non-developed side when the temperature of the material is lowered.

Abstract: An image forming material formed on a paper sheet and containing a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, is decolored by heating of the image forming material, contacting the image forming material with a solvent optionally containing a decolorizer, and removing a residual solvent from the paper sheet.

Abstract: A cooling system for a vehicle power unit has a cooling fan rotated by the rotational force from the crankshaft, in the housing thereof so as to cool the internal space of the housing by introducing air into the housing and discharging the thus introduced air to the outside through upper and lower outlet ports. The upper side outlet port is formed in the housing upper surface opposing the approximate middle portion of the V-belt's return path along which the V-belt moves from the rear to the front so as to promote the current of air introduced in the housing to flow along the direction of travel of the V-belt.

Abstract: A decoloring apparatus for an image forming material comprising means for bringing a solvent into contact with an image forming material formed on a paper sheet and containing a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, and means for removing a residual solvent from the paper sheet.

Abstract: An erasable image forming material includes a color former, a developer, and a decolorizer and is erasable by contact with an erase solvent. Free energy &agr; required for the decolorizer and the developer to form a complex and free energy &bgr; required for the color former and the developer to form a complex have a relationship represented by &agr;≦&bgr;≦10 Kcal/mol.

Abstract: An erasable image forming material includes a color former, a developer, a binder resin, and a polymer decolorizer having an electron donating group capable of physically or chemically adsorbing the developer. This polymer decolorizer is, e.g., a polymer compound having a sugar skeleton, representatively starch. This image forming material can form sharp images and erase images by heat or a solvent to achieve a good erased state.

Abstract: An epoxy resin composition comprising (a) an epoxy resin, (b) a curing agent, (c) a cure accelerator and (d) silica powder. The silica powder (d) is composed of (d1) a first silica powder having a particle diameter ranging from 5 to 75 .mu.m, (d2) a second silica powder having a particle diameter ranging from 0.2 to 0.9 .mu.m, and (d3) a third silica powder having a particle diameter ranging from 0.01 to 0.08 .mu.m.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus records an image onto a recording medium by flying an ink-droplet from an ink surface by a pressure of an ultrasonic beam. The apparatus including an ultrasonic generating element array having a plurality of ultrasonic elements arranged in an array for emitting ultrasonic beams, a driving device for applying a plurality of pulses having different phases from each other, and a converging device for converging the ultrasonic beams by interfering the ultrasonic beams with each other. The generating elements are simultaneously driven and sequentially shifted in an array direction, and the converging device converging the ultrasonic beams in a direction perpendicular to the array direction.

Abstract: A decolorizable image forming material comprising a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, the decolorizer comprising a highly amorphous phase separation inhibitor and a slightly amorphous phase separation inhibitor. A cyclic sugar alcohol is used as the highly amorphous phase separation inhibitor, and a non-aromatic cyclic compound having five-membered or larger ring substituted by a hydroxyl group or a derivative of a cyclic sugar alcohol is used as the slightly amorphous phase separation inhibitor. The decolorizable image forming material can be decolored easily after image formation by a solvent and the decolored state of which can be maintained stably, thereby making it possible to reuse paper sheets.

Abstract: A rewritable thermal recording medium of this invention uses a recording material which reversibly changes between an equilibrium state and a quasi-equilibrium state different in color condition from the equilibrium state when a predetermined heat treatment is performed. This rewritable thermal recording medium includes a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate. The recording layer has a first region containing a first recording material which takes on lighter color in quasi-equilibrium than in equilibrium, and a second region containing a second recording material which takes on darker color in quasi-equilibrium than in equilibrium.