Abstract: A direct heat-sensitive recording method and device using a light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording material in which are layered on a support a heat-sensitive recording layer and at least one light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording layer, which have heat recording sensitivities higher than a heat recording sensitivity of the heat-sensitive recording layer and which are fixed by electromagnetic waves of respectively different wavelengths, each layer of the light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording material developing to a respectively different color, including: an exposing device for deactivating imagewise each of the light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording layers corresponding to respective colors by modulating light amounts of electromagnetic waves having respectively different wavelengths and illuminating the electromagnetic waves onto the light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording layer; and a heat recording device for developing the heat-sensitive recording layer imagewise and developing undea

Abstract: A direct heat-sensitive recording method and device using a light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording material in which are layered on a support a heat-sensitive recording layer and at least one light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording layer, which have heat recording sensitivities higher than a heat recording sensitivity of the heat-sensitive recording layer and which are fixed by electromagnetic waves of respectively different wavelengths, each layer of the light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording material developing to a respectively different color, including: an exposing device for deactivating imagewise each of the light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording layers corresponding to respective colors by modulating light amounts of electromagnetic waves having respectively different wavelengths and illuminating the electromagnetic waves onto the light-fixing-type heat-sensitive recording layer; and a heat recording device for developing the heat-sensitive recording layer imagewise and developing undea

Abstract: Disclosed is a light and heat sensitive recording material which permits recording using infrared laser light, requires no developing solution or the like, causes no unnecessary generation of waste, and is capable of forming completely dry, black-and-white monochrome or color, and clear images with high contrast. The light and heat sensitive recording material comprises a light and heat sensitive recording layer disposed on a support member, comprising the light and heat sensitive recording layer. It includes an electron donating colorless dye contained in heat-responsive microcapsules; and an electron accepting compound, a polymerizable monomer which is cured by irradiation with light, and an organic borate salt or an organic borate salt of a cationic coloring material which develops functions as a photo polymerizing initiator when irradiated with light which are arranged outside the heat responsive microcapsules.

Abstract: This invention discloses a photo- and heat-sensitive recording material excellent in fixability comprising a support having on one side of which at least one photo- and heat-sensitive layer having a haze % of less than 60 and containing a diazo compound and a coupler, wherein either the diazo compound or the coupler is enclosed in a microcapsule and a process to manufacture it.

Abstract: A heat sensitive material which is comprised of a support having thereon a transparent heat sensitive layer and at least one layer selected from among a protective layer, a subbing layer and backing layer, wherein at least one of constituent layer contains fine grains of at least one crystalline metal oxide which has a volume resistivity ranging from 10.degree. to 10.sup.5 ohm.multidot.cm. An amount of said crystalline metal oxide is 0.0001 g-1 g per m.sup.2 and the best metal oxide is SnO.sub.2.

Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material which is comprised of a support having thereon at least a transparent heat sensitive layer excellent in freshness-keeping property is disclosed. The transparent heat sensitive layer is obtained by coating a solution obtained by mixing a microcapsule containing a colorless or light colored electron donating dye precursor with an emulsion prepared by dispersing a color developer dissolved in an organic solvent, which is slightly soluble or insoluble in water, into an aqueous solution containing both of a surface active agent and water soluble polymer. The stabilities of emulsion and heat sensitive layer are improved by using a partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol as the water soluble polymer and/or adding a metal salts of a salicylic acid derivatives into the coolor developer. A heat sensitivity of the heat sensitive recording material is improved by using a organic solvent having a boiling point lower than 150.degree. C.

Abstract: A multicolor recording material having on one side of a support at least two layers capable of producing colors different from each other in hue through respective color-producing reactions, which further has an interlayer constituted by a water-soluble polyanionic polymer having gelled through the interaction with a polycation between every adjacent two of said color-producing layers to prevent migration of ingredients from one color-producing layer to another.

Abstract: An image-forming material comprising: (a) microcapsules, in which at least one leuco dye capable of developing a color by oxidation and at least one photooxidizing agent (preferably a combination of a lophine dimer and an organic halogeno-compound) are enclosed together, and (b) at least one reducing agent not enclosed in the microcapsules (preferably present in the form of an emulsified dispersion), thereby achieving image formation in a completely dried condition, and ensuring excellent freshness keeping property, image reproducibility and fixability.

Abstract: A multicolor heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a transparent support having two or more of color-producing unit layers differing in hue of the produced color in such a situation that at least one unit layer is provided on each side of the support, wherein at least one color-producing unit layer is essentially transparent, namely, Haze % of said transparent layer is less than 40% and a multicolor heat-sensitive recording material further provided a transparent protective layer on the outermost color producing unit layer are disclosed.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed. The material comprises a support having provided on the same surface thereof microcapsules containing a basic colorless dye and an organic solvent, and a developer capable of reacting with the basic colorless dye to develop a color, the capsule walls of said microcapsules being impermeable to either of the basic colorless dye and the developer at room temperature but becoming permeable to the colorless dye and/or the developer upon application of heat. The organic solvent is a compound containing at least two benzene rings in the molecule thereof with a total number of at least one hetero atom selected from nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen and phosphorus atoms, if any, being less than 1/10 a total number of carbon atoms of the organic solvent. The material is excellent in preservability before and after recording and is excellent in heat-developability.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material obtained by coating on a support a composition comprising a microcapsulated colorless or light colored color-forming substance which can develop its color by reaction with an organic base, and an emulsified dispersion prepared by emulsifying an organic base dissolved in an organic solvent insoluble or slightly soluble in water, then drying the coat.

Abstract: A process for the production of a heat-sensitive recording material in which a color former causing a color formation reaction and a developer forming color on reaction with the color former are incorporated in a heat-sensitive recording layer, and at least one of the color former and the developer is contained in microcapsules having walls which are impermeable to both the color former and the developer at ordinary temperature but which becomes permeable to at least one of the color former and the developer on heating, where the heat-sensitive recording layer is coated on a support which is then subjected to surface treatment by passing it through a pressure applying apparatus comprising a metallic roll and an elastic roll in such a manner that the heat-sensitive recording layer is in contact with the metallic roll.

Abstract: This invention discloses a manufacturing method of a heat sensitive material having a transparent heat sensitive layer comprised of controlling transparency of heat sensitive layer by coating a composition containing an emulsified dispersion prepared by dispersing a color developer dissolved into an organic solvent slightly soluble or insoluble in water and microcapsules containing at least a colorless or light colored electron donating dye precursor (core material) and then drying the coat, in which a refractive index of the core material and that of an oil phase of the color developer dispersion are properly adjusted. When providing a transparent heat sensitive layer obtained by the above method on a printed support, a printed matter can be seen through the heat sensitive layer.

Abstract: A negative type heatsensitive recording material which can realize high contrast image suitable to overhead projector, comprising on a support a heatsensitive layer prepared by coating a composition containing an emulsified dispersion, which is obtained by dissolving a colorless or light colored electron donating dye precursor and a color developer in an organic solvent slightly soluble or insoluble in water then subjecting the resulting solution to an emulsifying dispersion treatment, and decolorizercontaining microcapsules.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support having provided thereon a heat-sensitive layer containing microcapsules containing at least one diazonium salt capable of azo-coupling with 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid anilide to develop a blue color, a 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid amide derivative, a benzoylacetic amide derivative represented by the following formula and a basic substance: ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an alkoxy, aralkyloxy, phenoxy or acylamino group having up to 18 carbon atoms; Y represents an alkyl or aralkyl group having from 7 to 18 carbon atoms, an alkoxy, aralkyloxy, phenoxy, naphthyloxy, alkylthio, aralkylthio or phenylthio group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms, a naphthylthio group, a sulfonyloxy group, a sulfamoyl gorup, a ureido group, a thioureido group or an acylamino group; X' and Y' each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group; and Y and Y' may combine to form a substit

Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material which comprises a support having thereon a heat sensitive layer containing at least color former-contained microcapsules and a color developer, with the heat sensitive layer being formed using a colorless or light colored precursor of a basic dye as the color former, and according to a process which comprises preparing a coating composition by mixing the color former-contained microcapsules with an emulsified dispersion prepared by dissolving at least the color developer into an organic solvent which is slightly soluble or insoluble in water, and then dispersing the solution in an emulsified condition, coating the resulting composition on the support, and then drying the coat, whereby the heat sensitive layer comes to acquire both excellent transparency and high sensitivity to heat.

Abstract: This invention discloses a heat sensitive recording material having excellent transparency and anti-scratch property, which comprises on a support a heat sensitive layer and a protective layer successively, in which said heat sensitive layer is prepared by coating a composition containing an emulsified dispersion prepared by dispersing a color developer dissolved into an organic solvent slightly soluble or insoluble in water and microcapsules containing a colorless or light colored electron donating dye precursor and then drying the coat, and said protective layer is comprised of at least a modified polyvinylalcohol with silicon and a colloidal silica; a preferred mixing ratio of the modified polyvinylalcohol with silicon to the colloidal silica is 0.5-3 calculated by parts by weight.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed. The material comprises a support having provided on the same surface thereof microcapsules containing a basic colorless dye and an organic solvent, and a developer capable of reacting with the basic colorless dye to develop a color, the capsule walls of said microcapsules being impermeable to either of the basic colorless dye and the developer at room temperature but becoming permeable to the colorless dye and/or the developer upon application of heat. The organic solvent is a compound containing at least two benzene rings in the molecule thereof with a total number of at least one hetero atom selected from nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen and phosphorus atoms, if any, being less than 1/10 a total number of carbon atoms of the organic solvent. The material is excellent in preservability before and after recording and is excellent in heat-developability.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material and a recording method are disclosed, wherein the heat-sensitive recording material comprises a support having formed thereon plural heat-coloring elements each comprising a diazo compound and a coupling component capable of causing heat-coloring, the heat-coloring elements coloring in two or more different hues, and the coloring property in each heat-coloring element being capable of being stopped by the action of different radiations, and the recording method comprises first heat-coloring a heat-coloring element of the heat-sensitive recording material, stopping the heat-coloring property of the uncolored portions of the first heat-coloring element by radiation, and then heat-coloring another heat-coloring element; wherein the recording method comprises applying two or more heat-coloring procedures and one or more irradiations of radiation to form recorded images composed of two or more colors on the same sheet.

Abstract: A multicolor heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed, comprising a support having carried thereon at least two colorless or light-colored color formers capable of developing different colors and color developers capable of reacting with said color formers upon heating to develop colors, wherein at least one of the color formers and color developers is encapsulized, at least one of the color formers is a diazo compound which is substantially decomposed by light, and at least one of the other color formers is a compound which is not substantially decomposed by light. The material provide a multicolor image having excellent hues and sharpness without color smearing and is free from undesired color formation before or after recording.