Patents by Inventor Keiichi Adachi

Keiichi Adachi 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: 4574115
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material is described, comprising(1) an emulsion layer containing light-sensitive silver halide grains, and(2) a layer containing metal salt grains on which a dye is adsorbed, which cannot be substantially developed and are sparingly soluble in water,wherein the absorption maximum of said dye is separated by 20 nm or more from the sensitization maximum of an emulsion layer located in a position farther from the light source than the layer containing said dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Adachi, Tadashi Ikeda, Tadaaki Tani
  • Patent number: 4542091
    Abstract: A process for forming color images, and a silver halide color photographic material for use in the process, are described, said process comprising processing with a developer containing hydroxylamine a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer being disposed at a more upper portion than other color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and said color photographic material further comprising (1) a light-insensitive layer containing at least one of a yellow colored magenta-dye-forming coupler and a yellow non-diffusible organic dye between the lowermost blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the uppermost layer of the other color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and (2) a light-insensitive silver halide emulsion in any layer above sa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Sasaki, Takatoshi Ishikawa, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4536472
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one of these silver halide emulsion layers containing a non-diffusible coupler which forms a properly smearing diffusible dye upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent together with a monodispersed silver halide emulsion. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material provides color images having not only an improved RMS granularity but also an improved visual sensation of graininess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohiko Kato, Seiji Ichijima, Keiichi Adachi, Toshiyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4518682
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material has improved sensitivity and granularity as well as an increased gradient. Further, the material can be processed by rapid processing methods. The material is comprised of a support having positioned thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a compound represented by the general formula (I):A-B (I)wherein A is residue of a compound capable of undergoing a coupling reaction with an oxidized primary amine developer, the residue being derived by eliminating a hydrogen atom from an active position of the compound. B is a group capable of being released through a coupling reaction to exert a fogging effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toshiro Takahashi, Shigeo Hirano, Takeshi Hirose, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4489155
    Abstract: In a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The granularity of the material is improved by incorporating a non-diffusible coupler capable of forming a properly smearing diffusible dye by causing a reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent and a colorless competing compound capable of capturing the oxidation product of a color developing agent in at least one of the foregoing silver halide emulsion layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Shigeo Hirano, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4477563
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler having, at the coupling active position, a group which provides a compound having a development inhibiting property when the group is released from the coupling device position of the coupler upon the color development reaction and which is decomposed to a compound which does not substantially influence the photographic properties when the compound diffuses into a color developing solution.The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a novel class of development inhibitor releasing couplers provides color images of good sharpness and improved color reproduction without causing contamination of the processing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Kei Sakanoue, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4476219
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material which is improved in granularity by containing both a gallic acid amide derivative represented by the following general formula (I) and a high speed reaction type coupler: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or an unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or an unsubstituted aromatic group, or a substituted or an unsubstituted heterocyclic group, and they may be the same group provided that they are not simultaneously hydrogen atoms, and, further, they may combine with each other to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Shigeo Hirano, Takehiko Ueda, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4474874
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide light-sensitive material which prevents formation of color fog is disclosed, containing a negative gradation photographic silver halide emulsion which is substantially of the surface latent image type, and at least one compound represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents --CONR.sup.1 R.sup.2, --COR.sup.1, --SO.sub.2 R.sup.1, or --SO.sub.3 R.sup.1 and wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, and a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, and are selected such that may combine together to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 9183
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeo Hirano, Kei Sakanoue, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4425162
    Abstract: Colored ink useful within an ink-jet printing device is disclosed. The ink is comprised of specifically disclosed yellow dyes, magenta dyes and cyan dyes within an aqueous ink composition. The use of the specific dyes within the aqueous ink composition prevents clogging within the nozzle of the ink-jet printer during operation or after operation has been restarted after a suspension of use of the printer. The ink composition has a high light-fastness characteristic, is not easily discolored by exposure to light and produces faithful color reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sugiyama, Keiichi Adachi, Eiichi Kato, Akira Ogawa, Shinichi Imai
  • Patent number: 4411987
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing an unsubstituted or substituted glycoluril as an aldehyde gas scavenger. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention can avoid the decrease in color density and the formation of fog normally present when the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is stored for a long period of time in contact with formaldehyde gas. In addition, the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention has a reduced layer thickness and good film strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Keiichi Adachi, Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4390618
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a layer containing a coupler compound represented by formula (I)A--B (I)wherein A represents a residue of a compound capable of undergoing a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, by the removal of one hydrogen atom from the active position of said compound, and B represents a group which is released by the coupling reaction and exhibits a development accelerating function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toshirou Takahashi, Shigeo Hirano, Takeshi Hirosa, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4366237
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, said photographic material containing a 5-pyrazolone magenta coupler substituted with a tertiary alkanamido group at the 3-position thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Keiichi Adachi, Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4308336
    Abstract: In color photographic sensitive materials comprising at least one direct reversal silver halide emulsion layer associated with a diffusible dye-releasing redox compound on a base, the improvement which comprises that at least one of a layer containing said redox compound or said direct reversal silver halide emulsion layer contains about 5 to 200 mg per 100 millimols silver in the emulsion layer of a compound represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrolyzable group, P, Q and R which may be the same or different each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic group or an --S--Z.sup.2 group, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 may be the same or different and each represents an unsaturated heterocyclic residue which is photographically inactive when bonded to the hydroquinone through the sulfur moiety, and --S--Z.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kokichi Waki, Keiichi Adachi, Seiki Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 4268622
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having on a support a hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a basic polymer, and at least one styryl or butadienyl dye represented by the following general formula (I) and having at least three sulfo groups in a dye molecule: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group; R.sub.3 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or alkenyl group; L represents --O--Y--SO.sub.3 M or ##STR2## in which Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, an acyl group or --Y--SO.sub.3 M, Y represents an alkylene or alkenylene group, and M represents a cation; X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Adachi, Eiichi Kato, Nobuaki Inoue, Tetsurou Kojima
  • Patent number: 4266013
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic or aromatic residue; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic or an aromatic residue; and X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a divalent aromatic group; and a method of forming a direct positive image which comprises processing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a support carrying thereon an internal latent image type silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of the compound represented by the said formula (I). The compound is particularly effective in combination with diffusible dye releasing (DRR) compounds having o-hydroxyarylsulfamoyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Adachi, Shigeo Hirano, Nobuyuki Tsujino
  • Patent number: 4255511
    Abstract: A direct positive light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic residue or an aromatic residue; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic residue, or an aromatic residue; X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a divalent aromatic residue; and Y represents --R--, --O--R or --S--R-- wherein R represents a divalent aliphatic residue and the O or S is bonded to X.sub.1. The compound is particularly effective in combination with a diffusible dye releasing dye image providing compound having an o-hydroxyarylsulfamoyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hirano, Keiichi Adachi, Nobuyuki Tsujino
  • Patent number: 4245037
    Abstract: A direct positive light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic residue or an aromatic residue; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic residue, or an aromatic residue; X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a divalent aromatic residue; and Y represents ##STR2## or a direct bond wherein the O or S is bonded to X.sub.1 ; R represents a divalent aliphatic residue and R.sub.3 represents an aliphatic residue or an aromatic residue. The compound is particularly effective in combination with a diffusible dye releasing dye image providing compound having an o-hydroxyarylsulfamoyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tsujino, Shigeo Hirano, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4243747
    Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing 2,5-bis(1',1'-dimethylbutyl)hydroquinone or a precursor thereof and a 3-anilino-5-pyrazolone type magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein IR represents RCONH--, RNHCO--, ROCO--, RNHSO.sub.2 --, ROSO.sub.2 NH-- ##STR2## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 35 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group or an aralkyl group, which groups can be further substituted.The color photographic light-sensitive material can provide color images having excellent fastness and free from discoloration at the non-image areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakamura, Keiichi Adachi, Akira Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4232114
    Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive element having (1) reduced fog, (2) low reduction in sensitivity and (3) good yellow dye image light fastness, and comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion and optionally one or more non-light-sensitive subsidiary layers, wherein a blue-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer and/or a non-light-sensitive layer adjacent thereto contains at least one asymmetrical hydroquinone compound selected from the group consisting of 2-methyl-5-tert-octylhydroquinone, 2-tert-butyl-5-tert- amylhydroquinone, 2-tert-butyl-5-tert-hexylhydroquinone, 2-methyl-5-tert-hexylhydroquinone, 2-methyl-5-tert-amylhydroquinone, 2-methyl-5-(1'-methylcyclohexyl)hydroquinone and precursors thereof wherein either or both hydroxyl groups are modified with an acyl group represented by the formulae: ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Adachi, Tadao Shishido, Akio Mitsui
  • Patent number: 4224403
    Abstract: A method for preventing the degradation of a hydrophilic colloid solution for a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of which the viscosity has been or is to be increased using an anionic polymer containing an acid group, which comprises incorporating into the hydrophilic colloid solution at least one compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub. represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzo Toda, Keiichi Adachi, Shoji Ishiguro, Yasuhiro Nakayama