Record receiver having plural interactive leaves or a colorless – Having a colorless color-former – developer therefor – or... – Having nonchromogenic liquid spread-control or...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-06
2003-11-11
Hess, Bruce H. (Department: 1774)
Record receiver having plural interactive leaves or a colorless
Having a colorless color-former, developer therefor, or...
Having nonchromogenic liquid spread-control or...
C503S214000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06645910
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a thermally sensitive recording medium that has an excellent light resistance, and excels in appearance of unrecorded portion and color developing ability, further, prevents adherence of depositions and occurrence of sticking.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In general, a thermally sensitive recording medium is obtained by following procedure. Namely, a colorless or pale colored basic leuco dye and an organic color developer such as phenolic compound are respectively ground to fine particles and mixed together, a binder, a filler, a sensitizer, a lubricant and other additives are added, and a coating is obtained. The obtained coating is coated on a substrate such as paper, synthetic paper, film or plastic, thus a thermally sensitive recording medium is obtained. The thermally sensitive recording medium develops color by an instantaneous chemical reaction by heating with a thermal pen, a thermal head, a hot stamp or a laser ray, and a recorded image can be obtained. These thermally sensitive recording media are widely used in a field of a recorder of measuring equipment, a terminal printer of computer, a facsimile, a bar cord labeling machine and an automatic ticket vending machine.
Recently, as the applications of a thermally sensitive recording medium, uses for various kinds of caption label, indication medium such as poster and ticket are becoming more popular. However, since the stabilities to light and to heat of these kinds of thermally sensitive recording media are low, the occurrences of following problems are pointed out. That is, when said thermally sensitive recording medium is exposed to the room light or to the sun light, or left in high humid condition for long term, the background color of said medium changes to yellowish color and the appearance is spoiled, or the stability of recorded image is deteriorated, therefore, the commodity image of the thermally sensitive recording medium is remarkably damaged.
For the purpose to improve the light resistance of a thermally sensitive recording medium, a method to contain an inorganic filler that has ultraviolet ray screening effect in a thermally sensitive recording layer or a protecting layer which covers said thermally sensitive recording layer is described in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 62-18626 or in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 6-64324. However, in a case of inorganic filler that has ultraviolet ray screening effect such as zinc oxide, titanium dioxide or cerium oxide, although the ultraviolet ray screening effect of these compounds is high, the transmittance of visible radiation is low. Therefore, the color developing part is concealed and the printed image density becomes low, and if the containing amount of these compounds is reduced to prevent the occurrence of mentioned problems, the screening effect for ultraviolet rays is deteriorated and becomes not practical. Further, in a case of cerium oxide, since cerium oxide itself has light yellowish color, it is not suited as the material for a thermally sensitive recording medium.
Meanwhile, for the purpose to improve the light resistance, the method to contain fine ground particles of an ultraviolet ray absorbent in a thermally sensitive recording layer or a protecting layer which covers said thermally sensitive recording layer is disclosed (Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 50-104650, 55-55891, 55-93492 and 58-87093). However, for the purpose to obtain a sufficient light resistance by containing fine ground particle of an ultraviolet absorbent in a thermally sensitive recording layer, it is necessary to add large amount of ultraviolet ray absorbent, because the absorbing effect and screening effect for ultraviolet rays are poor. Therefore, when these kinds of thermally sensitive recording media are kept in high temperature condition, the new problems such as background fogging or deterioration of the recorded image are caused, and the properties necessary for the thermally sensitive recording medium are damaged.
Further, when fine ground particles of ultraviolet ray absorbent are contained in a protecting layer, and if the ultraviolet ray absorbents are conventional type, these agents have low melting points and can be easily molten by the heat of a thermal head, and cause the problem of fine adherence of depositions or occurrence of sticking that stains the thermal head by long time printing. Furthermore, the ultraviolet ray absorbent is extracted from the protecting layer by the effect of plasticizer or oil, and consequently, the preserving ability of the recorded Image is deteriorated. And, in a case when the aqueous ultraviolet ray absorbent is used, as described in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 7-17131, since ions such as sodium salt are formed at the dissolving process of aqueous ultraviolet ray absorbent, the defect that the thermal head is damaged electric chemically is pointed out.
Further, the method to obtain a thermally sensitive recording medium that has good preserving stability and light resistance by containing microcapsules of ultraviolet ray absorbent in a protective layer is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 5-155134. However, in a case of this method, the preparation of microcapsule in which fine particles of ultraviolet ray absorbent are immobilized is necessary, and to improve the absorbing efficiency of ultraviolet rays, it is necessary to make the size of microcapsule smaller. However, the size of microcapsule is restricted by the preparation method and the size of microcapsule has the smallest limit. Therefore, to obtain a sufficient light resistance, the necessary amount of the microcapsules that contain ultraviolet ray absorbent to add is increased, and the cost for the manufacturing of the thermally sensitive recording medium rises. Further, since the microcapsule in which ultraviolet ray absorbent is immobilized must be stabilized to heat and to pressure, the wall thickness of microcapsule must be thicker, and it is one of the ground of cost rising.
Recently, a thermally sensitive recording medium, which uses an ultraviolet rays absorbent prepared by polymerization of benzotriazole molecule or benzophenone molecule which has an ultraviolet ray absorbing ability, is proposed in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 7-314894, Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 9-221487, Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 9-268183, Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 9-314496, Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 10-71770 and Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 10-36371. Still more, the thermally sensitive recording medium containing an ultraviolet ray absorbent of an emulsified copolymer composed of an ultraviolet ray absorbing monomer, a vinyl compound monomer which can copolymerise with said monomer and a bridgeable monomer in a thermally sensitive recording layer is described in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication 6-73368. However, when the thermally sensitive recording media in which the compounds disclosed in these publications for patent are used, various problems mentioned below are caused, and the ultraviolet ray absorbent which has well balanced quality has not yet been obtained. Namely, problems of conventional ultraviolet ray absorbents for example; the appearance of unrecorded portion of thermally sensitive recording media are deteriorated because the color of materials itself is not so good; when used in a thermally sensitive layer, the recorded image density is deteriorated because it is necessary to add large amount of them to obtain a sufficient effect; and when used in a protective layer, the barrier ability reduces because these compounds are easily dissolved in plasticizer or oil; further the adherence of depositions or occurrence of sticking caused by the weak heat resistance, are pointed out.
As mentioned above, the method to provide a light resistance to a thermally sensitive recording medium by an ultraviolet absorbent has been carried into effect for long time, however, a sufficient
Hamada Kaoru
Kawabata Hiroyuki
Kimura Yoshihide
Sato Reiko
Sugimori Seiji
Hess Bruce H.
Nippon Paper Industries Co. Ltd.
Sherman & Shalloway
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