Heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet

• US 4,703,335 A
• Filed: 01/21/1986
• Issued: 10/27/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
• Inventors: Morishita, Sadao, Sekine, Mikiya, Matsushita, Toshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Hess, Bruce H.
• Application Number:
  US06/820,305
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 503/204, 503/205, 503/206, 503/226, 503/208, 503/214, 427/150-152
• US Class Current: 503/204
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 2205/04 Direct thermal recording [DTR]
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 2205/42 Multiple imaging layers
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/124 using pressure to make a masked colour visible, e.g. to make a coloured support visible, to create an opaque or transparent pattern, or to form colour by uniting colour-forming components
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/145 with a lactone or lactam ring
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/1455 characterised by fluoran compounds
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/323 Organic colour formers, e.g. leuco dyes
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/327 with a lactone or lactam ring
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/3275 Fluoran compounds
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/38235 characterised by transferable colour-forming materials
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/42 Intermediate, backcoat, or covering layers B41M5/405 takes precedence; multilayer thermal transfer systems in general B41M5/38214

Abstract

In a heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet comprising a substrate, a heat-sensitive, color-forming layer provided on the front side of said substrate and a heat-transferable layer provided on the back side of said substrate, background fogging can be prevented by allowing the heat-transferable layer to be composed essentially of an electron-donating colorless dye, an electron-accepting compound, a low-melting substance and a desensitizer.

Claims

1. A heat-sensitive and heat transferable recording sheet comprising a substrate, a heat-sensitive, color-forming layer provided on the front side of said substrate and a heat-transferable layer provided on the back side of said substrate, wherein the heat-transferable layer is composed essentially of an electron-donating colorless dye, an electon-accepting compound, a low-melting substance and a desensitizer which is a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants and ampholytic surfactants, the amount of desensitizer being 0.05 to 5% by weight based on the total solid of the heat-transferable layer, the amount of the low-melting substance being 25% to 75% by weight based on the total solid of the heat-transferable layer.

2. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the desensitizer is 0.1 to 3.0% by weight based on the total solid of the heat-transferable layer.

3. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 1, wherein the desensitizer is at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of ether type, ether ester type and ester type nonionic surfactants.

4. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 3, wherein the surfactant is an ether type nonionic surfactant and is selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether, a polyoxyethylene secondary alcohol ether and a polyoxyethylene alkylphenol ether.

5. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 3, wherein the surfactant is an ether ester type nonionic surfactant and is selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyethylene glycerine - fatty acid ester, a polyoxyethylene castor oil, a polyoxyethylene hardened castor oil, a polyoxyethylene sorbitan - fatty acid ester and a polyoxyethylene sorbitol - fatty acid ester.

6. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 3, wherein the surfactant is an ester type nonionic surfactant and is selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene glycol - fatty acid ester, a fatty acid - monoglyceride, sorbitan - fatty acid ester and propylene glycol - fatty acid ester.

7. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 1, wherein the low melting substance is at least one member selected from the group consisting of waxes and amides.

8. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet according to claim 7, wherein the low-melting substance is a wax selected from the group consisting of paraffin wax, microcrystalline wax, polyethylene wax, beeswax, rice wax, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, montan wax, ozokerite, ceresine, castor wax, and opal wax.

9. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferabale recording sheet according to claim 7, wherein the low-melting substance is an amide selected from the group consisting of stearamide, behenamide, ethylene-bis-stearamide, methylolstearamide and oleamide.

10. A heat-sensitive and heat-transferable recording sheet comprising a substrate, a heat-sensitive, color-forming layer provided on the front side of said substrate and a heat-transferable layer provided on the back side of said substrate, wherein the heat-transferable layer is composed essentially of an electron-donating colorless dye, an electron-accepting compound, a low-melting substance and a desensitizer, there being provided a pressure-sensitive ink layer on selected necessary places of the heat-transferable layer, the ink layer being composed essentially of an electron donating color former, an electron-accepting color developer and a wax and at least either of the color former and the color developer being contained in microcapsules.