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Recording material
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1978-02-03
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Granted: 1980-02-12
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Expires: 1998-02-03
Abstract
Abstract A recording material comprising a support having thereon a layer contaning (i) at least one metal and (ii) a layer containing one or more metal sulfides other than GeS, metal fluorides or metal oxides. A mono-layer mixture of (i) and (ii) may also be used.
Inventors
- 👤 Keishiro Kido
- 👤 Satoshi Yoshida
- 👤 Tomoaki Ikeda
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-23 15:43
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C1/00; G03C1/705; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S430/00; Y10S430/146
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
220 words
A material for recording a laser beam scanned imagewise by evaporating or deforming scanned portions of a recording layer thereof by the heat energy of the laser beam, which comprises a support and at least one recording layer vapour deposited thereon having a thickness of about 300 A to about 1500 A and said layer comprising at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi, In, Zn, Al and Cu, wherein the improvement comprises said layer also containing one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of CrS, Cr 2 S, Cr 2 S 3 , MoS 2 , MnS, FeS, FeS 2 , CoS, Co 2 S 3 , NiS, Ni 2 S, PdS, Cu 2 S. Ag 2 S, ZnS, In 2 S 3 , In 2 S 2 , GeS x , wherein x is a positive integer of 2 to 9, SnS, SnS 2 , PbS, As 2 S 3 , Sb 2 S 3 , Bi 2 S 3 , MgF 2 , CaF 2 , RhF 3 , MoO, InO, In 2 O, In 2 O 3 , GeO and PbO, and wherein the volume ratio of said one or more compounds to said one or more metals is about 1/5 to about 1/30 in said at least one layer.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
220 words
A material for recording a laser beam scanned imagewise by evaporating or deforming scanned portions of a recording layer thereof by the heat energy of the laser beam, which comprises a support and at least one recording layer vapour deposited thereon having a thickness of about 300 A to about 1500 A and said layer comprising at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi, In, Zn, Al and Cu, wherein the improvement comprises said layer also containing one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of CrS, Cr 2 S, Cr 2 S 3 , MoS 2 , MnS, FeS, FeS 2 , CoS, Co 2 S 3 , NiS, Ni 2 S, PdS, Cu 2 S. Ag 2 S, ZnS, In 2 S 3 , In 2 S 2 , GeS x , wherein x is a positive integer of 2 to 9, SnS, SnS 2 , PbS, As 2 S 3 , Sb 2 S 3 , Bi 2 S 3 , MgF 2 , CaF 2 , RhF 3 , MoO, InO, In 2 O, In 2 O 3 , GeO and PbO, and wherein the volume ratio of said one or more compounds to said one or more metals is about 1/5 to about 1/30 in said at least one layer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
239 words
In a process for recording information on a recording material by imagewise scanning the recording material with a high temperature intensity energy source to evaporate or deform scanned portions of a recording layer of the recording material by the heat energy of the high intensity energy source, the improvement wherein the recording material comprises a support and at least one recording layer vapour deposited thereon having a thickness of about 300 A to about 1500 A and comprising at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi, In, Zn, Al and Cu, and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of CrS, Cr 2 S, Cr 2 S 3 ,MoS 2 , MnS, FeS, FeS 2 , CoS, Co 2 S 3 , NiS. Ni 2 S, PdS, Cu 2 S. Ag 2 S, ZnS, In 2 S 3 , In 2 S 2 , GeS x , wherein x is a positive integer of 2 to 9, SnS, SnS 2 , PbS, As 2 S 3 , Sb 2 S 3 , Bi 2 S 3 , MgF 2 , CaF 2 , RhF 3 , MoO, InO, In 2 O, In 2 O 3 , GeO and PbO, wherein the volume ratio of said one or more compounds to said one or more metals is about 1/5 to about 1/30 in said at least one layer is used as said recording material.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
239 words
In a process for recording information on a recording material by imagewise scanning the recording material with a high temperature intensity energy source to evaporate or deform scanned portions of a recording layer of the recording material by the heat energy of the high intensity energy source, the improvement wherein the recording material comprises a support and at least one recording layer vapour deposited thereon having a thickness of about 300 A to about 1500 A and comprising at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi, In, Zn, Al and Cu, and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of CrS, Cr 2 S, Cr 2 S 3 ,MoS 2 , MnS, FeS, FeS 2 , CoS, Co 2 S 3 , NiS. Ni 2 S, PdS, Cu 2 S. Ag 2 S, ZnS, In 2 S 3 , In 2 S 2 , GeS x , wherein x is a positive integer of 2 to 9, SnS, SnS 2 , PbS, As 2 S 3 , Sb 2 S 3 , Bi 2 S 3 , MgF 2 , CaF 2 , RhF 3 , MoO, InO, In 2 O, In 2 O 3 , GeO and PbO, wherein the volume ratio of said one or more compounds to said one or more metals is about 1/5 to about 1/30 in said at least one layer is used as said recording material.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
20 words
The process of claim 2 wherein the energy source has an intensity of about 10 3 watt/cm 2 or higher.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
15 words
The process of claim 3 wherein the recording material is scanned with a laser beam.
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