Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Okumura

Mitsuhiro Okumura 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: 4906554
    Abstract: This invention relates to a color developing solution for processing of a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material which comprises containing a compound represented by the following formula [I] and at least one compound selected from a compound represented by the following formula [II] and a compound represented by the following formula [III], and a processing method of a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, which comprises, after imagewise exposure of a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, carrying out processing including at least a color developing step, wherein the light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material has silver halide emulsion layers containing silver halide grains substantially comprised of silver chloride, and a color developing solution used in the color developing step contains the compound represented by the following formula [I] and at least one compound selected from the compound represented by the following formula
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Ishikawa, Shigeharu Koboshi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Keiji Ohbayashi, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Shigeo Chino, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4886108
    Abstract: A method for forming a fiber-reinforced metal sheet including the steps of preparing a wire preform in which fibers and a matrix are combined together; arranging regularly a plurality of wire preforms in a predetermined direction in a side-by-side relation; irradiating simultaneously using a CO.sub.2 laser beam, and a YAG laser beam the regularly arranged wire preforms to elevate the temperature of the wire preforms; and pressing the wire preforms by rollers while the wire preforms are at the elevated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shin Utsunomiya, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Takeshi Morita
  • Patent number: 4870231
    Abstract: A contact for a vacuum interrupter, of a material containing copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo), and either tantalum (Ta) or niobium (Nb), has splendid interrupting ability and breakdown voltage ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eizo Naya, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4863844
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic material which is excellent in the aptitude for rapid processing and highly sensitive and of which the sensitivity and gradation are stable against the change of the temperature at the time of exposure is disclosed. The silver-halide photographic material comprises a support and, provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer contains silver chloro-halide grains containing not less than 90 mole % of silver chloride and having been chemically sensitized in the presence of a labile sulfur compound and a gold compound, and an organic compound of which solubility product (Ksp) with a silver ion is not more than 1.times.10.sup.11.0, said organic compound having been added to said silver halide emulsion layer during the period between after the formation of said silver halide grains and before the completion of the chemical sensitization thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Keiji Ohbayashi, Shigeo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4863846
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed which is decreased in variation of light-sensitivity caused by a change in environmental humidity and a prolonged storage of the photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Makoto Kajiwara, Masanobu Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 4839270
    Abstract: A rapidly processable silver halide photograpic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising, (a) silver halide grains comprising not less than 80 mol % of silver chloride, (b) at least one optical sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula [I] and (c) at least one compound represented by the following general formula [II]. The photographic material has a high sensitivity, lowered fog and excellent storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kojima, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4830958
    Abstract: A photographic material having an excellent rapid processability, a high sensitivity and a less sensitivity variation due to a change of standing of the silver halide emulsion in the course of preparation of the light-sensitive material, and its preparation process are disclosed. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, and at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains highly chloride-containing silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, a water-soluble bromide of from 0.05 mol % to 2 mol % per mol of silver halide and a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of not higher than 6.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Keiji Ohbayashi, Shigeo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4818671
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material improved in sensitivity, gradiation and maximum density when the material is treated with a rapid processing. The silver halide color photographic material comprises a support and photograhic component layers including at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising (a) silver halide grains comprising not less than 80 mol % of silver chloride, (b) a gold compound in an amount of from 5.times.10.sup.-7 to 5.times.10.sup.-3 mol per mol of silver halide contained in said silver halide emulsion layer, (c) a sulfur sensitizer and (d) a spectral sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and X.sub.4 are a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group or a hydroxy group, respectively; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are an alkyl group, respective;y X.sup..crclbar. is a counter anion and n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Ohbayashi, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Takaaki Kojima, Shigeo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4797350
    Abstract: A process for forming a dye image is disclosed, in which a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having a silver halide emulsion layer is developed by a color developer comprising an aromatic primary amine and an N,N- dialkylhydroxylamine. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a hydrophobic dye-forming coupler and a compound selected from the group consisting of compounds having a sterically hindered phenol group and polyalkylpiperidine compounds or the water soluble acid salt thereof. The dye image having a high maximum density and a high light-fastness can be obtained when the color developer without benzyl alcohol is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Ohbayashi, Shigeo Chino, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4784829
    Abstract: A contact material for a vacuum circuit breaker of excellent current breaking property and voltage withstand capability can be made from an alloy composed of copper and boride of tantalum, or an alloy composed of copper, boride of tantalum and titanium, or an alloy composed of copper, chromium, and boride of tantalum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Eizo Naya
  • Patent number: 4784938
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is improved on fog without decreasing photosensitivity. The photographic material comprises a support and a photographic structural layer provided thereon containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer. A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic mercapto compound is contained at least two layers of the photographic structure layer, and at least one of these mercapto compound-containing layer is a non-light-sensitive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Obhayashi, Shinichi Nakamura, Shigeo Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Masanobu Miyoshi, Makoto Kajiwara, Kaoru Onodera, Eiichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4677264
    Abstract: The present invention provides a contact material for a vacuum circuit breaker containing therein copper (Cu) and chromium (Cr) with further addition of at least one kind of boride selected from borides of chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W). Such contact material possesses remarkable advantages of having large current breaking capability and high voltage withstand capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Eizo Naya, Mitsuhiro Harima, Shoji Murakami, Seiichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 4626282
    Abstract: Contact material for vacuum circuit breaker according to the present invention contains (1) copper, (2) molybdenum, and (3) niobium or tantalum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eizo Naya, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4575451
    Abstract: A contact material for a vacuum circuit breaker consists essentially of copper as the basic component, and, as the other components, 35% by weight or below of chromium and 50% by weight or below of niobium, the total quantity of chromium and niobium in said contact material being 10% by weight and above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eizo Naya, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4540861
    Abstract: A contact material for use in a vacuum circuit interrupter which simultaneously provides superior current interrupting performance and breakdown voltage. The contact material of the invention includes components of copper, tantalum and at least one of cobalt and iron. Cobalt or iron should be present in an amount of 50 wt % or less, while the combination of tantalum and cobalt or iron should be present in an amount of at least 10 wt %. A fourth component of at least one of titanium, zirconium and aluminum may be added. Also, there may be included a fifth component containing at least one of a low melting point metal, alloys of a low melting point metal, intermetallic compounds of a low melting point metal, and oxides thereof, with the low melting point metal being at least one of bismuth, tellurium, antimony, thallium, lead, selenium, cerium and calcium in an amount of not more than 20 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Eizo Naya, Mitsumasa Yorita, Yasushi Takeya
  • Patent number: 4537743
    Abstract: The disclosed electrode composition for a vacuum switch comprises copper, as a principal ingredient, a low melting point metal such as Bi, Pb, In, Li, Sn or any of their alloys, in a content not exceeding 20% by weight, a first additional metal such as Te, Sb, La, Mg or any of their alloys and a refractory metal such as Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Ti, W or any of their alloys in a content less than 40% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Yamanaka, Yasushi Takeya, Mitsumasa Yorita, Toshiaki Horiuchi, Kouichi Inagaki, Eizo Naya, Michinosuke Demizu, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4517033
    Abstract: A contact material for a vacuum circuit breaker consists essentially of copper as the basic component, and, as the other components, 35% by weight or below of chromium and 50% by weight or below of tantalum, the total quantity of chromium and tantalum in said contact material being 10% by weight and above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Eizo Naya, Michinosuke Demizu
  • Patent number: 4499009
    Abstract: The disclosed electrode composition for a vacuum switch comprises copper, as a principal ingredient, a low melting point metal such as Bi, Pb, In, Li, Sn or any of their alloys, in a content not exceeding 20% by weight, a first additional metal such as Te, Sb, La, Mg or any of their alloys and a refractory metal such as Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Ti, W or any of their alloys in a content less than 40% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Yamanaka, Yasushi Takeya, Mitsumasa Yorita, Toshiaki Horiuchi, Kouichi Inagaki, Eizo Naya, Michinosuke Demizu, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4486631
    Abstract: A contact for a vacuum circuit breaker is disclosed which contains copper as a first component and also at least two elements of the group of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten as the other components. Each of these other components is contained in an amount not greater than 40% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eizo Naya, Toshiaki Horiuchi, Yasushi Takeya, Kouichi Inagaki, Michinosuke Demizu, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 4442201
    Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having on a support thereof at least one layer formed of an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide particles sensitized by a sensitizing dye comprising the steps of adding a first sensitizing dye to an emulsion containing silver halide particles, during the chemical ripening of the silver halide particles, to sensitize the silver halide particles; adding a second sensitizing dye to the emulsion containing the sensitized silver halide particles, after the chemical ripening of the silver halide particles, to form a coating liquid; and coating a support with the coating liquid to produce a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syun Takada, Takashi Kadowaki, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Shinichi Nakamura, Masaru Iwagaki