Heat Development Patents (Class 430/151)
  • Patent number: 10209839
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a laminated material, the method including forming a first transparent resin layer on a base material; and forming a second transparent resin layer directly on the first transparent resin layer, in which the forming a first transparent resin layer is applying an organic solvent-based resin composition on the base material, and the forming a second transparent resin layer is applying a water-based resin composition including an ammonium salt of a monomer having an acid group or an ammonium salt of a resin having an acid group. The method for producing a laminated material can provide a laminated material which exhibits satisfactory layer demarcation, and by which a problem caused by moisture absorption of the transparent resin layer formed using a water-based resin composition in a case in which the laminated material is subjected to a high temperature and high humidity environment for a period of time can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Kanna
  • Patent number: 9804497
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a security device including: conveying a substrate web including a photosensitive film along a transport path; exposing the photosensitive film to radiation of a predetermined wavelength through a mask, wherein the mask includes a predetermined pattern of regions which are substantially opaque to radiation of the predetermined wavelength and at least semi-transparent to radiation of the predetermined wavelength, respectively; during the exposure, moving the mask alongside the substrate web along at least a portion of the transport path at substantially the same speed as the substrate web, such that there is substantially no relative movement between the mask and the substrate web; and heating the substrate web including the exposed photosensitive film. In this way, regions of the photosensitive film exposed to the radiation of the predetermined wavelength undergo an increase in optical density such that the photosensitive film displays a reproduction of the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Adam Lister
  • Patent number: 9172043
    Abstract: Disclosed is a charge-transporting varnish containing a charge-transporting organic material, a good solvent, at least one poor solvent with high leveling properties, and at least one volatile poor solvent. The charge-transporting organic material is composed of a charge-transporting material consisting of a charge-transporting monomer or a charge-transporting oligomer having a number average molecular weight of 200 to 5000, or alternatively composed of such a charge-transporting material and an electron-accepting dopant material or a hole-accepting dopant material. This charge-transporting varnish enables to form a uniform and smooth charge-transporting thin film by a spray method or an ink jet method on an exposed electrode portion such as ITO or IZO of a substrate on which a structure of a simple or complicated pattern is formed beforehand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taku Kato, Takuji Yoshimoto, Go Ono
  • Patent number: 8278021
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a thin film transistor substrate having high light sensitivity, heat-resistance, impact resistance, and a photosensitive composition used by the same, the method including forming data wires on an insulating substrate, forming an organic insulating film on the data wires by applying a photosensitive composition comprising a terpolymer, where the terpolymer is derived from monomers of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, an unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride, or a mixture thereof, an unsaturated epoxy group-containing compound, and an olefinic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Kang, Jae-sung Kim, Yang-ho Jung, Hi-kuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8053171
    Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of a substrate having a film pattern including an insulating film, a semiconductor film, a conductive film and the like by simple steps, and also a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device which is low in cost with high throughput and yield. According to the invention, after forming a first protective film which has low wettability on a substrate, a material which has high wettability is applied or discharged on an outer edge of a first mask pattern, thereby a film pattern and a substrate having the film pattern are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Maekawa, Gen Fujii, Hiroko Shiroguchi, Masafumi Morisue
  • Patent number: 7229737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photopolymerizable composition containing a polymerizable compound having an addition-polymerizable unsaturated bond, an organic dye, and an organoboron compound represented by the following general formula (I), wherein at least one kind of the organoboron compound is included and the proportion thereof is one mole or more per mole of the organic dye B?R)4X?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuichi Fukushige, Shintaro Washizu
  • Publication number: 20040171817
    Abstract: There are described novel complexes formed between hydrogen bond acceptors and phenolic dye compounds and imaging members and imaging methods, including thermal imaging members and methods utilizing the complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Richard M. Allen, Michael P. Filosa, Stephen J. Telfer
  • Publication number: 20040161693
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal recording material comprising a support and at least a thermal recording layer disposed on the support, wherein at least one of the thermal recording layer includes, together with an electron donating colorless dye, at least an electron accepting compound represented by the following general formula (1). R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; and Ar is represented by the following general formula (2). In the general formula(2), R11 to R14 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an aryl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kazumori Minami, Hisao Yamada, Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20040048185
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material containing a support and a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on the support, the heat-sensitive recording layer including a diazonium salt and a coupler that thermally reacts with the diazonium salt to develop color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hisao Yamada, Hiroshi Sato, Yoshimitsu Arai, Kimi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20030194631
    Abstract: A positive photosensitive resin precursor composition which can be can be developed in an alkaline developer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventors: Mitsuhito Suwa, Kazuto Miyoshi, Masao Tomikawa
  • Publication number: 20030022092
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a substrate having disposed thereon at least a heat-sensitive recording layer comprising: microcapsules; diazonium salt compounds contained within the microcapules and represented by the following general formula (I); and a coupler which undergoes coupling-reaction with the diazonium salt compounds to cause color development, wherein three or more of the diazonium salt compounds represented by the general formula (I) are contained in the same microcapsule: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koreshige Ito
  • Publication number: 20020051927
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photopolymerizable composition containing a polymerizable compound having an addition-polymerizable unsaturated bond, an organic dye, and an organoboron compound represented by the following general formula (I), wherein at least one kind of the organoboron compound is included and the proportion thereof is one mole or more per mole of the organic dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Fukushige, Shintaro Washizu
  • Patent number: 6330054
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus forms an image by applying a control electric field having a polarity corresponding to recording information, to a recording medium having microcapsules including chargeable particles dispersed in a dispersion medium. The image-forming apparatus includes an alternating electric field-applying unit for applying an alternating electric field to the microcapsules. The alternating electric field is applied to the microcapsules of the recording medium before the image formed on the recording medium is rewritten. Accordingly, the chargeable particles are separated from the wall surfaces of the microcapsules and from the other chargeable particles, making it possible for the chargeable particles to perform free electrophoresis. The recording medium is initialized to improve the response performance with respect to the control electric field for forming a new image. The recording density is increased, and the blur is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Ikami
  • Patent number: 6303259
    Abstract: A recording material having a recording layer with microcapsules therein on a support, and a recording method. The microcapsules constituting the recording layer each are composed of a core, a heat-responsive resin layer covering the core, and a shell enveloping the heat-responsive resin layer. The shell is made of a material sensitive to and curable with light having a predetermined wavelength, the core contains a developer (or a dye precursor), and the shell contains a dye precursor (or a developer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Toshio Kobayashi, Suguru Nagae, Takamitsu Fujimoto, Keiki Yamada
  • Patent number: 6258505
    Abstract: An imaging medium comprises a substrate carrying a color-change layer. This color-change layer comprises two layers or phases comprising two color-forming reagents which react upon heating to cause a change in the color of the layer. The color-change layer is deactivated by exposure to actinic radiation such that after deactivation it no longer undergoes its thermal color-change. The color-change layer is detachable from the substrate by heating to a temperature lower than required to cause the color change, so that upon contact of the imaging medium with a receiving sheet each individual pixel of the color-change layer may be left attached to the substrate, transferred to the receiving sheet but left uncolored, or transferred to the receiving sheet and colored to a color level determined by the energy used in the associated thermal print head element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Jayprakash C. Bhatt, Daoshen Bi, F. Richard Cottrell, Rong C. Liang, William C. Schwarzel, Tung F. Yeh
  • Patent number: 6054246
    Abstract: An imaging medium comprises a substrate carrying a color-change layer. This color-change layer comprises two layers or phases comprising two color-forming reagents which react upon heating to cause a change in the color of the layer. The color-change layer is deactivated by exposure to actinic radiation such that after deactivation it no longer undergoes its thermal color-change. The color-change layer is detachable from the substrate by heating to a temperature lower than required to cause the color change, so that upon contact of the imaging medium with a receiving sheet each individual pixel of the color-change layer may be left attached to the substrate, transferred to the receiving sheet but left uncolored, or transferred to the receiving sheet and colored to a color level determined by the energy used in the associated thermal print head element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Jayprakash C. Bhatt, Daoshen Bi, F. Richard Cottrell, Rong C. Liang, William C. Schwarzel, Tung F. Yeh
  • Patent number: 6017672
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material having formed on a support a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a diazonium salt and a coupling component, wherein the diazonium salt is a compound represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, at least one of R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, and R.sup.5 represents an alkyl group, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.3, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.4, may combine with each other to form a ring; and X.sup.- represents an anion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Arai, Masatoshi Yumoto, Kimiatsu Nomura
  • Patent number: 5998082
    Abstract: A thermal recording material comprising a support having provided thereon a thermal recording layer containing a diazonium salt and a coupling component. The diazonium salt is a compound represented by the following general formula (1):General Formula (1) ##STR1## wherein T and U each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an acylamino group; V represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or OR.sup.3 ; R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each independently represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; and X.sup.- represents an anion. The thermal recording material has excellent stock storage stability and provides fast color-developed images having an extremely high developed color density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Jimbo, Hiroshi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 5750462
    Abstract: A latent image printing method and apparatus uses a substrate with one main surface having a covering comprising only one of a first pair of a color developer and color former dye in at least one selected latent imaging area defining a background color in conjunction with the one main surface, wherein the color developer and the color former dye react when mixed to produce a first spectral response which is visible relative to the background color and a continuous coating over the covering which is non-porous with respect to the other of the pair and solvent-resistant to the other of the pair. The coating above selected portions of the covering corresponding to a desired latent image is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Nocopi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Arshavir Gundjian
  • Patent number: 5691099
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel and useful thermal developing type diazo copying material wherein an initial image quality and an initial image reliability are maintained, while undesired coloring can be avoided and long-term preservation characteristics can be improved. The present invention comprises a support, a photosensitive layer formed on said support, said photosensitive layer including a diazo compound, and a coupler layer formed on said support, said coupler layer including a coupler component, said coupler layer having a copolymer including a monomer having a carboxylic acid and water-soluble guanidine salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kusakata, Masanori Rimoto, Kazuo Matsuda, Naohito Shimota
  • Patent number: 5556733
    Abstract: A thermal development diazo copying material is composed of a support, a diazo layer which contains a diazo compound, and a coupler layer which contains a coupling component, an alkali-soluble resin and a thermofusible material, which are overlaid on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kusakata, Masanori Rimoto
  • Patent number: 5543260
    Abstract: A diazo heat-sensitive recording material containing a support having provided thereon a recording layer containing a diazo compound, a coupler, and an organic base, wherein the diazo compound is a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents --C(Z.sub.1)(Z.sub.2)--CH.sub.2 --A, --CH.sub.2 --C(Z.sub.1)(Z.sub.2)--A or --{C(Z.sub.1)(Z.sub.2)}.sub.m --A,wherein Z.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group; Z.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group; A represents a halogen atom, an acyl group, a cyano group, or a group containing at least one oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus or sulfur atom through which A is bonded to --CH.sub.2 -- or Z.sub.2 ; and m represents an integer of 1 to 5;R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Tateishi, Sadao Ishige, Hiroshi Kamikawa
  • Patent number: 5494772
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising on a support a heat-sensitive layer comprising color-forming component A, color-forming component B which forms a color by reacting with the color-forming component A, and a tricarbocyanine dye having at least two acidic groups, wherein the tricarbocyanine dye has an absorption maximum wavelength of 650 to 1300 nm in the heat-sensitive layer and has an absorption maximum wavelength 50 nm or more longer than that of an aqueous solution of the tricarbocyanine dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hosoi, Koh Takeuchi, Yoshio Inagaki
  • Patent number: 5492789
    Abstract: A process for producing microcapsules containing a diazonium salt compound, and a photofixation thermal recording material employing the same. The process comprises adding an organic solvent solution containing both the diazonium salt compound and a polyfunctional isocyanate compound to an aqueous solution of a water-soluble polymer, emulsifying the organic solvent solution into the aqueous solution using an emulsifying agent, and then polymerizing the polyfunctional isocyanate compound to form microcapsule walls, said emulsifying agent comprising an alkyl glucoside represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of 0 to 2 and R represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 18 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Igarashi, Sadao Ishige
  • Patent number: 5424164
    Abstract: A recording material which comprises a support having provided thereon capsules containing a photosensitive diazonium salt, and a polymerizable coupler. The recording material can give a predetermined hue when light, pressure, heat and the like are applied alone or in combination. The main advantages of the recording material are that a specific hue can be selected safely, mixing of colors can be avoided, desensitization problem does not occur and a fixed image can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masato Satomura, Ken Iwakura, Akira Igarashi
  • Patent number: 5376952
    Abstract: A direct color thermal printer and method for direct color thermal recording of a full-color image on a thermosensitive color recording material is provided having yellow, magenta and cyan recording layers formed in this order from the outside, by sequentially recording yellow, magenta and cyan frames of the full-color image in this order in yellow, magenta and cyan recording layers. The recording speed of the yellow frame is set higher than the recording speed of the magenta and cyan frames by predetermining a recording cycle of one pixel or a recording time per pixel which is shorter for the yellow recording layer than the recording cycles for the magenta and cyan recording layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kokubo, Hitoshi Saito, Takao Miyazaki, Masamichi Sato
  • Patent number: 5328796
    Abstract: A diazo type recording material, which has a substantially unstained background, a superior preservability, and is capable of producing images of high density, wherein the diazo recording material comprises a support having thereon a recording layer comprising a photosensitive diazo compound, a hydroxyphenylsulfone derivative and a coupling component which forms a color by reacting with the diazo compound, with the diazo compound being enclosed in microcapsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shimomura, Taketatsu Sugiyama, Makoto Ohno, Toshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5304452
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a support coated with a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive diazo compound enclosed in microcapsules and a coupling component. The microcapsules are produced by forming an organic solution containing the diazo compound and a wall monomer, and emulsifying the organic solution in an aqueous solution containing an anionic surface-active agent and polyvinylpyrrolidone to produce oil droplets containing the wall monomer. The wall monomer is polymerized to form a wall around the oil droplets. When heat is applied to the photosensitive layer under alkaline conditions, the coupling component reacts with the diazo compound to form a color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ohno, Akihiro Shimomura, Toshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5296329
    Abstract: A diazo heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a support having thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer comprising a diazo compound, a coupling component, a basic substance, and a binder; wherein the coupling component is an acylacetanilide represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl; R.sub.2 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aralkyl; R.sub.3 is substituted of unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, aralkyloxy, alkylthio, or aralkylthio, substituted amino, or halogeno; the total number of carbon atoms in R.sub.2 and (R.sub.3).sub.n is 5 or more; n is zero or an integer of from 1 to 4; and the R.sub.3 's may be the same or different when n is 2 or more, which is useful for forming a yellow color image and providing a developed color image with higher light-fastness, less soiling of a non-image area, and improved uniformity in color-developing layer due to the use of a more oil-soluble coupling component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takekatsu Sugiyama, Akira Igarashi
  • Patent number: 5236800
    Abstract: A heat-developable copying material comprising a support having thereon a heat-developable light-sensitive layer comprising microcapsules containing a diazo compound and substantially no solvent, a coupling component and a color basic substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakamura, Hirokazu Shimada
  • Patent number: 5213939
    Abstract: A light- and heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed which includes a support having thereon a recording layer containing a diazo compound, a coupling component, and an organic base compound, wherein the diazo compound is a 1-substituted amino-3-alkoxybenzene-4-diazonium salt and the coupling component is a compound prepared from any of cyclohexane-1,3-dione, 3-cyclohexenone, or 2-cyclohexenone. The light- and heat-sensitive recording material according to the present invention can develop an excellent magenta color hue and has excellent storage properties before recording use (shelf life).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takekatsu Sugiyama, Sadao Ishige, Naoto Yanagihara, Hiroshi Kamikawa, Keiichi Tateishi
  • Patent number: 5089371
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a heat development copying material, comprising a support having provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing a diazo compound, a coupling component, a color-forming assistant, and a film-forming high polymeric binder; and a light-insensitive intermediate laeyr containing a film-forming high polymeric binder, and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a coupling component and a color-forming assistant, wherein the light-insensitive intermediate layer is provided between the support and the photosensitive layer, and a method for forming an image using the above-described copying material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakamura, Toshiharu Tanaka, Hirokazu Shimada
  • Patent number: 5089372
    Abstract: A transfer recording medium is disclosed, comprising a light transmitting support having provided thereon a heat transfer solid ink layer via an interlayer having a photolyzable compound. The recording medium provides a clear and high-quality color image on an image-receiving sheet at high speed and low cost irrespective of surface smoothness of the image-receiving sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignees: Tomoegawa Paper Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kirihata, Chikara Murata, Masahide Tsukamoto, Yutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 4977070
    Abstract: Support layers for photosensitive media comprise reflective sheeting which is transparentizable. The properties of the support layer enable it to act as an antihalation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: John M. Winslow
  • Patent number: 4975353
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support having provided thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer which comprises (a) a diazo compound, (b) a coupling component which forms a coloration by coupling with the diazo compound, and (c) a basic substance having a structural unit represented by Formula (I): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Watanabe, Takekatsu Sugiyama, Sadao Ishige, Hiroshi Kamikawa
  • Patent number: 4965166
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hosoi, Toshimasa Usami
  • Patent number: 4960670
    Abstract: A thermodevelopable photo-recording method suitable for making bar-code labels, ID cards and the like, comprising using a thermodevelopable photo-recording material provided with thermodevelopable photo-recording layer containing at least a diazo compound and a coupler, and an electricity modulation type light shutter constructed by minute matrixes which come to be able or inable to transmit light when electric current is passed therethrough, and optionally an optical system for minizing or enlarging the final image, exposing said photo-recording material to light through a temporary image formed in said light shutter by turning on or off the electricity to pass through each of the minute matrixes, then heating said photo-recording material to get a record of the image therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koutaro Nakamura, Yoshiro Kawashima
  • Patent number: 4957847
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a base and, on top of the said base, a heat-sensitive layer containing a cyclic diazo component and a coupling component, the cyclic diazo component being a benzotriazine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein Q is --CH.sub.2 --, --CO-- or --SO.sub.2 --, R is hydrogen, hydroxyl, or aryl or alkenyl, each unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, hydroxyl, cyano, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio, acyloxy, lower alkoxycarbonyl or lower alkylsulfonyl, or is acyl, acyloxy or acylamino, cycloalkyl, or is aryl or aralkyl such as phenyl, phenylalkyl or naphthyl each unsubstituted or substituted on the ring by cyano, halogen, nitro, trifluoromethyl, lower alkyl, lower alkylthio, lower alkoxy, lower alkylcarbonyl or lower alkoxycarbonyl, or is a heterocyclic radical, and the benzene ring A is unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, cyano, nitro, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio, lower alkylcarbonyl or lower alkoxycarbonyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Adam, Hans Baumann
  • Patent number: 4895826
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer comprising a diazo compound and a coupler precursor compound, said coupler precursor compound being capable of forming a compound having an ability of coupling with said diazo compound upon heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Watanabe, Takayuki Hayashi, Hiroshi Kamikawa, Masato Satomura, Takekatsu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 4891297
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed. The material comprises a support having provided thereon a recording layer containing one or more diazo compound, a coupling component, and at least one thiohydroquinone derivative as a sensitizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Takashima, Ken Iwakura, Masato Satomura, Kimio Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 4865939
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Usami, Toshiharu Tanaka, Takayuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4842979
    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
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Ishige, Toshimasa Usami, Hiroshi Kamikawa, Toshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4828957
    Abstract: Disclosed is a two-color heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a base sheet and a recording layer of single-layer or multi-layer structure formed on the base sheet, the recording layer comrising:(a) a diazonium salt,(b) a basic leuco dye,(c) a 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid derivative which acts as a coupler compound for causing the diazonium salt to develop color when heated and which also acts as a color developing material for causing the basic leuco dye to develop color when heated, and(d) a basic substance, wherein the diazonium salt and the basic leuco dye each form a color upon application of heat, thereby giving the first image of a mixed color, and, then, after irradiation of an active ray to decompose the diazonium salt, the basic leuco dye alone forms its own color upon application of heat, thereby giving the second image whose color is different from the mixed color of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yonese, Tosaku Okamoto, Mitsuru Kondo
  • Patent number: 4782002
    Abstract: A photo and pressure sensitive recording medium comprising a sheet shaped supporting member, microcapsules enveloping therein at least image developing materials and photo-sensitive resins, and plastic grains having large diameter than that of the microcapsule and being softenable when exposed to external energy. The microcapsules and the plastic grains are mixedly distributed and coated on one surface of said supporting member.Since the plastic grains are not softened until they are subjected to the external energy such as heat, light and so on, the microcapsules smaller than the plastic grains can be prevented from unintentional rupturing by fingers of operators or so during the transportation or so of the recording medium even though the microcapsules are prepared to be ruptuable by small pressure such as the pressure applied by the fingers or so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kuniyasu Makino, Jun Sakai
  • Patent number: 4775610
    Abstract: A method for the formation of a photographic image including a heating step, comprising heating a photographic material in the presence of at least one compound selected from those represented by formulae (I) and(II) ##STR1## wherein A represents a non-metallic atomic group forming a carbocyclic aromatic ring or a heterocyclic aromatic ring;X represents a nucleophilic group or a precursor thereof;Q represnts a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, or aryl group; andPUG represents a photographically useful group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitaguchi, Kozo Sato, Masatoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 4770973
    Abstract: In a heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a substrate and a heat-sensitive recording layer thereon containing a diazonium salt and coupler compound, the heat-sensitive recording material characterized in that the coupler compound comprises at least one compound represented by the formula [I] below ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are each hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl or alkoxyl; R.sub.9 is hydrogen atom or alkyl; X and Y are each hydrogen atom, --OR.sub.10 or --N(R.sub.11)(R.sub.12), R.sub.10, R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 being each hydrogen atom, alkyl, alicyclic group, aryl or aralkyl, these R.sub.10, R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 may have a substituent selected from among halogen atom, alkyl and alkoxy, R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 may link together to form a heteroring, or, one or both of R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 may form a heteroring together with an adjacent benzene ring; n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Limited
    Inventors: Nobuo Kanda, Katsuhiko Ishida, Tosaku Okamoto, Mitsuru Kondo
  • Patent number: 4771032
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Yamaguchi, Toshiharu Tanaka, Toshimasa Usami, Sadao Ishige
  • Patent number: 4760048
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kurihara, Sumitaka Tatsuta, Jun Yamaguchi, Toshimasa Usami
  • Patent number: 4737484
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is described, comprising a support having provided thereon a recording layer comprising a diazo compound and a coupling component, wherein the improvement comprises including said diazo compound and at least one compound selected from a polymerizable compound containing an ethylenically unsaturated bond therein or at least one compound capable of releasing a free radical upon exposure to light together in microcapsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Iwasaki, Hiroshi Kamikawa, Toshimasa Usami
  • Patent number: 4729936
    Abstract: An image forming process including a heating step is disclosed. The process comprises conducting said heating step in the presence of at least one compound represented by formula (I), (II), or (III). ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents ##STR2## wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyloxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkylthio group, a substituted or unsubstituted arylthio group or a substituted or unsubstituted amino group; R.sup.11 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitaguchi, Kozo Sato, Masatoshi Kato