Patents by Inventor Masahiro Asami
Masahiro Asami 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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Patent number: 6335154Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein 50% or more of the projected area of the silver halide grains to be contained is occupied by tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more and a grain thickness of 0.2 &mgr;m or less, with the tabular grains each having a phase with the content of silver bromide being 10% or more, and wherein in the phase, the tabular grains each contain a metal complex dopant in an amount necessary to increase the density of a dislocation. This emulsion produces high contrast and better granularity while it has high sensitivity. Further, there is also disclosed a silver halide photographic emulsion, wherein the average equivalent-circle diameter of the total tabular grains among the silver halide grains contained is 2.0 to 4.0 &mgr;m, and the tabular grains contain at least one metal complex having, as a ligand, a heterocyclic compound in a number more than half of the coordination number of the metal atom.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2000Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Makoto Kikuchi, Tadanobu Sato
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Patent number: 6261749Abstract: Disclosed is a ultrahigh speed silver halide color photographic material for picture-taking use, which comprises a support coated with at least three light-sensitive layers comprising blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsions respectively: with the photographic material having a characteristic speed of at least 800 and the total silver coverage of at most 7.0 g/m2, and satisfying the following relation between the total silver coverage (X) and the characteristic speed (Y); (X)/(Y)½≦0.185, thereby ensuring excellent granularity and storage stability.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 6232055Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol% or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which havType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6228565Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which haType: GrantFiled: October 28, 1997Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 6228556Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which is capable of forming an image by: after exposing a light-sensitive material, which comprises a first support having thereon at least one photographic light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a developing agent, a compound capable of forming a dye upon coupling reaction with an oxidation product of the developing agent and a binder; attaching said light-sensitive material to a processing material, which comprises a second support having thereon a base and/or a base precursor, in such a way that the coated surfaces of the two materials faced each other, in the presence of a small amount of water which corresponds to from {fraction (1/10)} to 1 time water necessary for giving maximum swelling of all coated layers constituting the light-sensitive material and the processing material; and then heating the light-sensitive material and the processing material, wherein at least one said light-sensitive laType: GrantFiled: March 28, 1997Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Toshiki Taguchi
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Patent number: 6218095Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which haType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6183932Abstract: There is provided a silver halide photosensitive material for color photography which can stably form an image having high quality through a process that is simple, quick and causes less environmental damage. A photosensitive material comprising a substrate carrying thereon a photographic constituent layer containing at least one photographic photosensitive layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, wherein said photosensitive material comprises a compound represented by one of the following general formulae [I], [II] and [III] and further comprises at least one silver halide emulsion in which the variation coefficient of particle size of contained silver halide particle is 20% or less and the variation coefficient of a halogen composition between particles is 25% or less. In the formulae, Z represents a carbamoyl group, an acyl group, or the like, and Q represents an atom group forming an unsaturated ring with C. R1 to R4 represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1999Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6001543Abstract: Disclosed is a novel silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and photographic constituent layers formed thereon, said photographic constituent layers including at least one photographic light-sensitive layer comprising light-sensitive silver halide, said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material being capable of forming an image thereon after exposure and simple heat development thereof, wherein the light-sensitive material contains a specific compound acting as an anti-fogging agent and wherein at least one silver halide emulsion contained in the light-sensitive material is characterized in that silver halide grains of the emulsion have a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, the tabular grains whose principal faces are each made up of a (111) plane account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, the tabular grains have an average thickness of 0.3 .mu.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Tetsuro Kojima
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Patent number: 5945264Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, capable of forming an image by, after exposure of a light-sensitive material, supplying water corresponding to from 1/10 to 1 times the water necessary for giving maximum swelling of all coated layers of a light-sensitive material and a processing material to the light-sensitive material or the processing material, laminating these materials to each other and then heating them, the light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one photographic light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide, a developing agent, a compound capable of forming a dye upon coupling reaction with an oxidation product of the developing agent and a binder, and the processing material comprising a support having thereon a processing layer containing a base and/or a base precursor, wherein at least two kinds of silver halide emulsions having spectral sensitivity in the same wavelength region and different in the average grType: GrantFiled: February 10, 1997Date of Patent: August 31, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Toshiki Taguchi
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Patent number: 5773560Abstract: The present invention discloses a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a first support having thereon at least one photographic light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a developing agent, a compound capable of forming a dye upon coupling reaction with an oxidation product of the developing agent, a binder, and a mercaptoazole compound, and a color image forming method comprising imagewise exposing the above-described silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, supplying water to the light-sensitive material or a processing material comprising a second support having thereon a base or a base precursor, in an amount ranging from 1/10 to the equivalent of an amount which is required for the maximum swelling of the all coated layers of these materials, placing the light-sensitive material and the processing material face to face, and heating the materials at a temperature of 60.degree. to 100.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1997Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5745811Abstract: An image recording system includes an image recording device and a developing device. When a latent image is formed by exposure in a frame on a silver halide photosensitive material, the image recording device records optically recognizable information relating to exposure at a position corresponding to the frame by light of an exposure amount which is sufficient to generate a silver image without developing. The developing device has a reading device for reading the information relating to exposure without photosensitizing the silver halide photosensitive material, and a developing device for developing the latent image in the frame corresponding to read information relating to exposure.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Okino, Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5604088Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion sensitized by a methine dye represented by following formula (I) and the total content of calcium in the photographic constituting layers on the support is not more than 10 mg/m.sup.2 ; ##STR1## wherein Q represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 5-membered or 6-membered ring; R.sub.1 to R.sub.11 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, however, at least one of R.sub.1 to R.sub.3 represents a group containing an aromatic group and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are not a hydrogen atom; L.sub.1 to L.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1995Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Ken Kawata
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Patent number: 5578437Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon photographic constituent layers comprising at least a yellow dye-forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye-forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye-forming silver halide emulsion layer. The total silver coverage in said silver halide emulsion layers is 0.6 g/m.sup.2 or less. The magenta dye-forming silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide emulsion grains comprising silver chloride or silver chlorobromide substantially free of silver iodide having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, at least one magenta dye-forming coupler represented by formula (M-I): ##STR1## and the total coating amount of oil-soluble components contained in photographic constituent layers above the silver halide emulsion layer nearest to the support is 3.5 g/m.sup.2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
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Patent number: 5547830Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer provided thereon, wherein the emulsion layer comprises a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains formed of silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide or silver chloroiodobromide each containing at least 90 mol % of silver chloride, or silver chloride, wherein 10.sup.-7 to 10.sup.-3 mol/mol of silver halide of an iron compound and 10.sup.-7 to 10.sup.-4 mol/mol of silver halide of a sulfur group compound are added to the silver halide grains until physical ripening of the grains is completed. The photographic material is particularly suitable in an image forming method involving exposing the photographic material to laser beams for a short period of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1995Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5478707Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive which is capable of providing a rapid processing as well as a high sensitivity and in which a change in an aging time in exposing through processing provides less performance fluctuation and therefore an excellent stability.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5462850Abstract: There is provided a silver halide photographic material which comprises silver chloride or silver chlorobromide substantially free from silver iodide. The silver halide photographic material is excellent in rapid processability, low in fogging, and high in sensitivity and contrast.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: October 31, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Naoto Ohshima, Shigeaki Otani
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Patent number: 5457007Abstract: The image forming process of the present invention includes subjecting a photosensitive material having at least one dye-forming layer for each of the three primary colors on a support to scanning exposure using light sources modulated in accordance with the image data, thereby reproducing a full color image of quality in which delicate shades in a high density color developed portion of high purity are reproduced stably.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5443946Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material and a method for forming a color image, which uses an emulsion that is suitable for scanning exposure by laser diodes, that is excellent in rapid processability, and that is high in sensitivity and contrast. And, there is provided a silver halide photographic material and a method for forming a color image, that uses an emulsion that is small in the fluctuation in gradation and sensitivity owing to a change in exposure illumination intensity and that is particularly small in the fluctuation in sensitivity owing to a change in temperature at the time of exposure in high-intensity exposure, such as laser scanning exposure.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1993Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5434034Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material and a method for forming a color image using said color photographic material. The silver halide color photographic material comprises silver halide emulsion grains comprising silver chlorobromide having a high silver chloride content and being substantially free from silver iodide, and a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) or (II), and said silver halide emulsion grains being formed by adding a water-soluble bromide at the grain formation step, and/or during the period from the completion of the formation of the grains to the coating of the cyan dye-forming layer onto the support: ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represent --N.dbd. or --C(R.sub.3).dbd., with one of Za and Zb being --N.dbd. and the other being --C(R.sub.3).dbd.; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent an electron-attracting group, whose Hammett substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value is 0.20 or more, with the sum of the .sigma..sub.p values of R.sub.1 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1993Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5422232Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layers having different color sensitivities and formed on a reflective support. The support comprises a substrate and a composition layer laminated on at least the surface of the substrate on which the emulsion layers are coated, and made of a thermoplastic resin containing polyester as a main component and a white pigment mixed and dispersed in the resin. The polyester is a polyester synthesized by the polycondensation of a dicarboxylic acid and a diol. The silver halide contained in the material is silver chlorobromide having silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more, or silver chloride. The ratio of the coated amount of all hydrophilic colloid used in the material to the coated amount of silver contained in all silver halide used in the material ranges from 5.0 to 30.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1993Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Naoto Ooshima