Patents by Inventor Mamoru Sakurazawa

Mamoru Sakurazawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20020155398
    Abstract: A modified gelatin obtained by reacting (A) a gelatin and (B) a compound which contains a nitrogenous aromatic ring having a mercapto group to form covalent bond with a reactive group in the gelatin, an introduction amount of the compound in the gelatin being 1.0×10−6 mol to 2.0×10−3 mol per 100 g of the gelatin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terukazu Yanagi, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Naohiro Takeda, Yoichi Maruyama, Katsuyuki Takada
  • Patent number: 6433223
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains the compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; X represents a water-soluble group; and R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having the sum total of from 14 to 40 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxyl group, —NR3R4 (R3 and R4 each independently represents an alkyl group having from I to 40 carbon atoms, a hydrogen atom, or an aryl group), a bicycloalkyl group, a bicycloalkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group or a heterocyclic group, provided that when X represents a quaternary ammonium salt structure, R2 does not represent an alkyl group having from 14 to 17 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Publication number: 20010036606
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion that comprises silver halide grains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Takeshi Funakubo, Hirotomo Sasaki, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 6251577
    Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprises a step of spectrally sensitizing a silver halide photographic emulsion material that contains tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 3 or more in an amount of 50% or more of the total projected area of all the silver halide grains, and a step of performing the spectral sensitization by the addition of a cyanine dye in an amount of 60% or more of the saturated covering amount of the silver halide grains, and the emulsion is produced in the presence of 400 to 2,500 ppm of calcium ions and/or 50 to 2,500 ppm of magnesium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 6180818
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 6114570
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 6057090
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains the compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; X represents a water-soluble group; and R.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having the sum total of from 14 to 40 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxyl group, --NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 (R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, a hydrogen atom, or an aryl group), a bicycloalkyl group, a bicycloalkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group or a heterocyclic group, provided that when X represents a quaternary ammonium salt structure, R.sup.2 does not represent an alkyl group having from 14 to 17 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5932409
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (S1): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 represents an alkyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, or a sulfamoyl group; R.sub.12 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an acyl group, provided that when R.sub.11 represents an alkyl group, R.sub.12 represents an alkyl group, R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 may be linked with each other to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; R.sub.13 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.14 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; and L represents --CO--, --SO.sub.2 -- or --SO--.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Taniguchi, Takashi Hoshimiya, Sinichi Ichikawa, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Junichiro Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 5851754
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 5837436
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one surface thereof at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (A-I), (A-II) and (A-III) and a coupler represented by formula (m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 5719007
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described, which comprises a support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein one or more of the above layers contains at least one compound represented by formula (A-I), (A-II), (A-III), (A-IV) or (A-V) and one or more of the above layers contains at least one compound represented by formula (H): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5273868
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one type of acylacetamide type yellow coupler in which the acyl group represented by formula [I] indicated below is included in said blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one type of magenta coupler represented by formula [M] indicated below is included in said green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a univalent group, Q represents a group of non-metal atoms which, together with C, is required to form a three to five membered hydrocarbon ring or a three to five membered heterocyclic ring which has within the ring at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, O, S and P, with the proviso with R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5272049
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least two green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers having different sensitivities on a support. The layer having the lowest sensitivity of the green-sensitive layers contains at least one type of coupler represented by Formula (M), and the layer having the highest sensitivity of the green-sensitive layers contains at least on type of coupler represented by Formula (N), Formula (I) or Formula (II), ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Z represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form a 5-membered azole ring containing two to four nitrogen atoms, said azole ring being able to have a substituent including a condensed ring, and X represents a group except for a hydrogen atom, which can split off during a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of a developing agent. Formula (N) represents a compound represented by Formula (M) in which the split-off group X is replaced by a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Tadahisa Sato