Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Hidetoshi Kobayashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5140020
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a derivative of dihydroxybenzamide represented by the formula(I): ##STR1## wherein (1) R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group and R.sup.2 represents a straight chain-alkyl group of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, a branched chain-alkyl group of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, a cyclo-alkyl group of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein n is an integer of 1 to 6, or a pyridyl group which is substituted or unsubstituted, or (2) R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are cyclized to make a heterocycle containing amino group represented by the formula ##STR3## wherein X represents a nitrogen atom or a methine and Y represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Kureha Kagatu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takita, Sakuo Noda, Yutaka Mukaida, Kazuyoshi Inada, Mari Toji, Fumihiko Kimura, Toyohiko Nitta, Kohju Watanabe, Kiyonori Umekawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5100771
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent soluble homopolymer or copolymer and at least one yellow coupler of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a tertiary alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkoxy group; R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; and X represents a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent.The silver halide color photographic material has high sensitivity and excellent sharpness, color reproducibility and preservability, before and after processing, as is free from sweating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Hirohiko Kato, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5094938
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer on a base which comprises a novel cyan coupler. According to the disclosure, a silver halide color photographic material containing a cyan coupler that has high coupling reactivity and high color density, resulting color image being hardly susceptible to reduction fading and is excellent in heat fast can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Tsukahara, Shigeru Yamazaki, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5019490
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic materials are disclosed, comprising a support carrying at elast one hydrophilic organic colloid layer in which at least one photographically useful reagent is dispersed with at least one of ethylenic addition polymerized polymer which contains at least 50% by weight of trifluorochloroethylene units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5017466
    Abstract: A color-forming aminopyrimidine coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic-oxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a heterocyclic-thio group, a substituted or unsubstitued amino group, a heterocyclic group bonding to the pyrimidine ring via a nitrogen atom thereof, an alkyl group or an aryl group; provided that at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is an unsubstituted or substituted amino group, and that when any one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 or R.sub.3 contains a sulfonic acid group or a salt thereof, R.sub.1 , R.sub.2 or R.sub.3 contains at least one linear or branched alkyl group and that the total carbon atoms in the alkyl group(s) are to be more than 8; and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Reiichi Ohi, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 4975359
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described, containing: (1) a non-diffusing coupler forming a dye on reacting with an oxidation product of a color developing agent, said dye having diffusibiity of the extent that it exhibits controlled smearing; and (2) a DIR compound releasing a diffusing development inhibitor or its precursor through a coupling reaction. This light-sensitive material is improved in both granularity and sharpness, and has high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Sasaki, Kei Sakanoue, Seiji Ichijima, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4959299
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one type of development inhibitor releasing type coupler is present which, by means of a coupling reaction with the oxidized form of a primary aromatic amine developing agent, releases a precursor of a compound, the precursor inhibiting the development of silver halide which subsequently, by means of an electron transfer reaction via an ethylenic conjugated chain, releases a compound which inhibits the development of silver halide, and at least one type of bleach accelerating agent releasing type coupler is present which, by means of a coupling reaction with the oxidized form of primary aromatic amine developing agent, releases a bleach accelerating agent or a precursor thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Seiji Ichijima, Shinji Ueda
  • Patent number: 4957853
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is provided having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support and said photographic material contains at least one cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein r represents a substituted or unsubstituted branched alkyl or substituted alkyl group containing 6 or more carbon atoms; X represents a hydrogen atom or a non-photographically-useful group which can be released therefrom upon coupling with an oxidized form of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; R' represents a group which can be substituted at a phenyl nucleus other than a group which can be represented by OR; and n is an integer of from 0 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toshihiro Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 4948712
    Abstract: The invention provides (1) direct positive photographic photosensitive materials in which at least one type of FR compound which releases fogging agent or development accelerator or a precursor thereof in accordance with the amount of silver developed when the silver halide is being developed is included in a direct positive photographic material comprising at least one layer of non-pre-fogged internal latent image type silver halide emulsion on a support, and (2) a method of forming direct positive images of which the distinguishing features are that in a method for the formation of direct positive images in which a direct positive photographic photosensitive material comprising at least one layer of non-pre-fogged internal latent image forming silver halide emulsion on a support is processed, after image exposure, in a surface developer, at least one type of FR compound which releases fogging agent or development accelerator or precursors thereof is included in the said photographic mateiral, and that the s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inoue, Tatsuo Heki, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Naoyasu Deguchi, Shigeo Hirano
  • Patent number: 4923783
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing at least one high boiling point organic solvent and at least one substantially water-insoluble photographically useful reagent both dispersed therein, wherein at least one of the high boiling point organic solvents is a compound represented by formula (I):(ArCOO).sub.n --L (I)(the symbols of which are described herein).By incorporation of a compound of formula (I), reductive fading of cyan dyes formed in the material due to heat, moisture is minimized.A method of processing the silver halide photographic material as imagewise exposed with a color developer containing substantially no benzyl alcohol is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Hideaki Naruse
  • Patent number: 4910128
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising as a cyan-dye-forming coupler a compound represented by of formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a ballast group imparting diffusion fastness to the coupler of formula (I) and a cyan dye formed from said coupler; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group represented by --R, --OR, --SR, ##STR2## --COR, --COOR, --SO.sub.2 R, --SO.sub.2 OR, ##STR3## or --OCOR; Y represents a halogen atom, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, a nitro group, or a group represented by --R, --OR, --SR, --COR, --COOR, --SO.sub.2 R, --SO.sub.2 OR, ##STR4## m and n each represents an integer of 1 to 5, and when m or n is more than 1, the X or Y, respectively, are the same or different; R represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group, and R' and R" each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; with the proviso that the total number of carbon atoms in the substituent (X).sub.m is 4 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kamio, Katsuyoshi Yamakawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Isamu Itoh
  • Patent number: 4904579
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material comprises at least one layer containing a 5-pyrazolone magenta coupler represented by general formula (I) and a non-color forming, diffusion-resistant carboxylic acid compound: ##STR1## wherein W represents an aryl group; Y represents a carbonamido group, a ureido group or an anilino group; and R represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group.The silver halide color photographic material has high sensitivity, high color forming property, good formalin resistivity and good preservability, and provides magenta color images having good stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4900655
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one magenta coupler represented by the formula ##STR1## where the groups in the formula are defined in the specification; is dispersed in the silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of at least one high-boiling organic solvent represented by one of the formulae (II), (III), (IV) and (V): ##STR2## where the groups in the formulae are described in the specification. The a high boiling point organic solvent has a dielectric constant of not less than 4.00 at 25.degree. C. and 10 KHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nakazyo, Takeshi Hirose, Genichi Hurusawa, Osamu Takahashi, Nobuo Furutachi, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4874688
    Abstract: For incorporation of substantially water-insoluble photographic additives such as couplers into hydrophilic organic colloid layers of silver halide photographic materials, a phthalic acid ester of a formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be same or different and each represents a branched alkyl group having no more than 7 carbon atoms, is used so that said additives can effectively be dispersed in the colloid layers. Accordingly, the solubility and dispersibility of the additives is improved; the long-term stability of the additive dispersion is improved, and further and latent image storability and color-forming properties of the photographic material are also improved over the prior art photographic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ozawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4865963
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, said silver halide emulsion layer containing a pyrazoloazole series magenta coupler represented by general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a releasing group which is released at the reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; at least one of said R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is an alkyl group having a secondary or tertiary carbon atom directly bonded to the skeleton, at least one of said R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is a sulfonamidoalkyl group or a sulfamoylalkyl group; and the magenta coupler may form a dimer or more polymer at the position of said R.sup.1, R.sup.2 or X.By the combined use of high boiling point organic solvent and ultraviolet absorbent, light fastness and coloring property are markedly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Furutachi, Tadahisa Sato, Seiki Sakanoue, Akio Mitsui, Minoru Sakai, Masakazu Morigaki, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Nobuo Sakai, Kiyoshi Nakazyo, Takeshi Hirose, Toshio Kawagishi
  • Patent number: 4865959
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having on a support at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the color photographic material contains at least one compound releasing a bleach accelerator upon reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and at least one cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (A); ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group; or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of releasing upon a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; and Ar represents an aromatic group having at least one substituent, wherein the sum of the .sigma..sub.m and .sigma..sub.p values of the substituent is at least 0.67.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4863841
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein a 5-pyrazolone type 2-equivalent coupler is present in the photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a layer adjacent thereto and a hardening agent which acts by activating a carboxy group is present in a photosensitive or non-photosensitive photographic layer of the silver halide color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okamura, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toshihiro Nishikawa, Koji Tamoto
  • Patent number: 4841097
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are dialkanoyloxybenzylidene dialkanoate represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 represent respectively alkanoyloxy group and a pharmaceutical composition in dosage unit form which comprises a dosage effective for the treatment of inflammatory disease of the dialkanoyloxybenzylidene dialkanoate as an active ingredient thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takita, Fumihiko Kimura, Sakuo Noda, Yutaka Mukaida, Toyohiko Nitta, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4840877
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains a magenta dye forming coupler represented by the general formula (I) and a compound represented by the general formula (II) in the same layer ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is represents an aromatic group, an aliphatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2 represents a substituent; Za, Zb, Zc and Zd, which may be the same or different, each represents an unsubstituted methine group, a substituted methine group or --N.dbd.,(R'--COO.sup.-).sub.n M.sup.n+ (II)wherein R' represents a substituent which imparts a diffusion-resistant property to the compound represented by the general formula (II); M.sup.n+ represents a hydrogen ion, a metal ion or an ammonium ion; and n represents an integer from 1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Keiji Mihayashi, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Hirohiko Kato
  • Patent number: H789
    Abstract: A novel method for processing a silver halide color photographic material. The process comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to light, color-developing the light-sensitive material, and then desilvering the light-sensitive material, wherein: (a) said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a compound which reacts with an oxidation product of anaromatic primary amine color developing agent to form a bleaching accelerator, (b) the desilvering step is conducted with a processing solution containing a ferric complex salt of an organic acid, and (c) the total amount of replenisher of the processing solution to be used in the desilvering step satisfies either the following conditions (i) or (ii):(i) the total amount of replenisher is 1,000 ml or less per m.sup.2 of the light-sensitive material if the coated amount of silver per m.sup.2 of the light-sensitive material is 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Ueda, Kei Sakanoue, Seiji Ichijima, Hidetoshi Kobayashi