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Reversible thermosensitive coloring composition, and recording medium using the same

US5521138A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 23, 1992
Grant dateMay 28, 1996
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Expiry dateJun 23, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41M5/305
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A reversible thermosensitive coloring composition is composed of an electron-donor coloring compound; an electron-acceptor compound which is capable of producing a colored material with a regularly aggregated structure in the electron-doner coloring compound at a color development initiation temperature to obtain a color development state, and is capable of crystallizing out of the colored material at a decolorization initiation temperature which is lower than the color development initiation temperature; and an organic compound serving as a decolorization-accelerating agent capable of inducing the destruction of the regularly aggregated structure of the colored material to accelerate the decolorization of the composition. A reversible thermosensitive coloring recording medium is composed of a support and a recording layer formed thereon, which contains the above-mentioned reversible thermosensitive coloring composition.

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