Patents by Inventor Kiyoteru Miyake
Kiyoteru Miyake 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).
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Publication number: 20050214582Abstract: A photo-conductive layer for constituting a radiation imaging panel, which photo-conductive layer is capable of recording radiation image information as an electrostatic latent image, contains Bi4M3O12, in which M represents at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Ge, Si, and Ti. The photo-conductive layer may be formed with a coating technique or as a sintered film. The photo-conductive layer has a large effect of collecting formed electric charges and enhanced sensitivity, and is capable of yielding an image with good graininess characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2005Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventor: Kiyoteru Miyake
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Patent number: 6890705Abstract: The second silver halide photosensitive material comprises a substrate and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed thereon, the silver halide photosensitive material comprising at least two types of silver halide grains with different projected areas having photosensitivity in the same spectral range; silver halide grains having a larger projected area having a refractive index n1 and an average thickness a, and silver halide grains having a smaller projected area having a refractive index n2 and an average thickness b; and the silver halide grains satisfying the conditions defined by the following equation (1): n2?n1, and a?b×(n2/n1)??(1).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Masahiro Asami
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Publication number: 20040256572Abstract: A radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer formed by a gas phase-accumulation method, in which wherein the phosphor layer is composed of an alkali metal halide stimulable phosphor activated by an activator, and the crystal lattice in the phosphor layer has a lattice distortion in the range of 0.035 to 0.30%.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Yuji Isoda, Hiroshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20040188632Abstract: In a radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer which is produced by gas phase deposition and composed of prismatic phosphors, the phosphor layer has a relative density higher or same on a lower side than or as on a upper side, and the prismatic phosphors have a diameter which is larger on a upper side than on a lower side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiko Neriishi, Kiyoteru Miyake, Yasuo Iwabuchi
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Publication number: 20040149929Abstract: A radiation image storage panel composed of a support, a phosphor matrix compound layer covering a surface of the support at a coverage percentage of 95% or more, and a stimulable phosphor layer (which is composed of multiple prismatic stimulable phosphor crystals standing on the phosphor matrix compound layer) formed on the phosphor matrix compound layer shows a high peel resistance between the support and the stimulable phosphor layer, and a high sensitivity, and gives a reproduced radiation image of high quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventor: Kiyoteru Miyake
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Publication number: 20030118952Abstract: The second silver halide photosensitive material comprises a substrate and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed thereon, the silver halide photosensitive material comprising at least two types of silver halide grains with different projected areas having photosensitivity in the same photosensitivity range; silver halide grains having a larger projected area having a refractive index n1 and an average thickness a, and silver halide grains having a smaller projected area having a refractive index n2 and an average thickness b; and the silver halide grains satisfying the conditions defined by the following equation (1):Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 6350946Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device having a photosensitive layer comprising semiconductor particles is disclosed, in which the semiconductor particles are obtained from a metal hydroxide gel or a precursor thereof present in a hydrophilic solvent. Also disclosed in a photoelectric cell including the photoelectric conversion device.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Tadao Sugimoto
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Patent number: 6165704Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which contains, on a support, a specific nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, and a divalent metal cation that is an acid with intermediate hardness/softness classified in accordance with the HSAB principle, in an amount 1 to 300 times the number of moles of the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound. The light-sensitive material can form an image with high sensitivity and low fogging, both in heat-development processing characterized by its ease and rapidness, and in usual liquid-developing processing that is widely used.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Tadashi Ikeda
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Patent number: 6017684Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material including a substrate having a photographic constituent layer coated thereon including at least one light-sensitive layer which includes a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a developing agent, a compound capable of forming a dye by a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of the developing agent, and a binder, the light-sensitive material after the exposure thereof being put together with a processing material including a substrate having a constituent layer coated thereon including a processing layer comprising a base and/or a base precursor, in the presence of water supplied to the light-sensitive layer of the light-sensitive material or to the processing layer of the processing material in an amount ranging from 1/10 to the equivalent of an amount which is required for the maximum swelling of the entire coating layers of these materials, so that the light-sensitive layer and the processing layer face eachType: GrantFiled: December 2, 1997Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kiyoteru Miyake
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Patent number: 5856063Abstract: An image forming method comprising the steps of: (i) imagewise exposing a silver halide light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a hydrophilic binder and a slightly water-soluble basic metal compound; (ii) laminating the silver halide material with a processing sheet comprising a compound which forms a complex with a metal ion constituting the basic metal compound, a physical development nucleus, a solvent for a silver halide and a matting agent, after or concurrently with the imagewise exposure; and (iii) conducting heat development in the presence of a reducing agent and water to form a silver image on at least one of the light-sensitive material and the processing sheet, wherein the processing sheet comprises an uppermost layer containing the physical development nucleus; the product of the weight ratio in the uppermost layer of the amount of the physical development nucleus to that of the binder and the reciprocal of the mean size (.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirai, Takashi Nakamura, Kiyoteru Miyake
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Patent number: 5843628Abstract: A color image formation method excellent in discrimination and color image stability after processing which comprises overlaying a heat developable color light-sensitive material with a complexing agent sheet in the presence of a small amount of water therebetween after or during imagewise exposure, said light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a coupler, a reducing agent and a slightly-water-soluble basic metal compound, said sheet comprising a support having provided thereon at least a compound forming a complex with a metal ion constituting said basic metal compound; and heat developing the light-sensitive material to obtain a color image thereon, wherein the silver chloride content of said silver halide is 80 mol % or more, said complexing agent sheet comprises a physical development nucleus and a solvent for a silver halide, and said reducing agent is at least one compound of specified phenols, hydrazines and hydrazones.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiki Taguchi, Kiyoteru Miyake
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Patent number: 5677104Abstract: An image formation method is described, which comprises overlaying a silver halide light-sensitive material with a sheet after or during imagewise exposure, the light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide mainly comprising silver chloride, a hydrophilic binder, a reducing agent and a slightly water-soluble basic metal compound, the sheet comprising a support having provided thereon at least a compound forming a complex with a metal ion constituting said basic metal compound, a physical development nucleus, and a compound represented by the following formula (I) or a compound containing a sulfite ion; and heat-developing the material in the presence of water to form a silver image on at least one of the light-sensitive material and the sheet: ##STR1## wherein Q represents an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered imide ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1995Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirai, Hiroshi Hara, Kiyoteru Miyake
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Patent number: 5508161Abstract: A photographic silver halide photosensitive material includes an infrared sensitive layer which is spectrally sensitized with a combination of at least two J-band type sensitizing dyes so as to have maximum spectral sensitivity at 700 nm or longer wavelength. The photosensitive material has high sensitivity to exposure to a semiconductor laser of 700 nm or longer wavelength. Color separation is improved in the case of color photosensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Takashi Kato, Yoshio Inagaki
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Patent number: 5362601Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material includes an infrared-sensitive layer having a maximum spectral sensitivity at a wavelength of 700 nm or longer. A silver chlorobromide emulsion from which the infrared-sensitive layer is formed is prepared by adding an iodide at an intermediate stage during silver halide grain formation or later. The photosensitive material exhibits high sensitivity and low fog while the corresponding emulsion coating composition in solution form remains stable with time.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1992Date of Patent: November 8, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kiyoteru Miyake