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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTetsuya Amano, Makoto Kawaguchi, Yoshihiko Hotta, Atsushi Kutami, Kunichika Morohoshi, Akihide Ito, Fumihito Masubuchi, Takao Igawa, Tsutomu Kagawa, Nobuo Yamada, Katsuyoshi Kodama
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A method of compensating for the distortion in a recording layer of a reversible thermosensitive recording medium, for which transparency of the recording layer is changeable, depending upon the temperature thereof, and the recording layer is capable of forming images and erasing the images reversibly. The distortion in the recording layer is caused by the repeated image formation by image formation means and/or image erasure by image erasing means. In this method, stress is applied to the recording layer before and/or after image formation by the movement of the recording medium relative to the image formation means, in a direction different from the direction of the application of stress in the course of a previous image formation or image erasure. Instead of the stress, thermal energy can be employed for compensating for the distortion in the recording layer.
A method of compensating for distortion in a recording layer of a reversible thermosensitive recording medium, the transparency of said recording layer being changeable depending upon the temperature thereof, and said recording layer being capable of forming images and erasing said images reversibly, said distortion in said recording layer being caused by the repeated image formation by image formation means and/or image erasure by image erasing means, comprising the step of applying stress to said recording layer before and/or after image formation by moving said recording medium relative to said image formation means, in a direction different from the direction of the application of stress in the course of a previous image formation or image erasure, thereby compensating for the distortion, wherein said recording layer comprises:
A method of compensating for distortion in a recording layer of a reversible thermosensitive recording medium;
A method of compensating for distortion in a recording layer of a reversible thermosensitive recording medium, the transparency of said recording being changeable depending upon the temperature thereof, and said recording layer being capable of forming images and erasing said images reversibly, said distortion in said recording layer being caused by the repeated image formation by image formation means and/or image erasure by image erasing means, comprising the step of changing the transporting direction of said recording medium before and/or after image formation by moving said recording medium relative to said image formation means, thereby compensating for the distortion, whereby said recording layer comprises:
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