Patents by Inventor Toshifumi Iijima

Toshifumi Iijima 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: 6233403
    Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit including a main body; a photographic film, pre-loaded in the main body; an electronic flash unit; a shutter unit; a camera lens; and a diaphragm. In the lens-fitted film unit, a guide number of the electronic flash unit, a T-number determined from the camera lens and the diaphragm and a shutter speed of the shutter unit are determined so that A is not more than 8.5 when A represents an EV value of a reference exposure amount of the lens-fitted film unit under a stroboscopic photographing state minus 1.5; and intensity of a latent image, formed on the photographic film under the condition that a reference reflection panel being placed at a predetermined distance between 2-3 m from the lens-fitted film unit is illuminated by the electronic flash unit without other lights in the stroboscopic photographing state, corresponds to intensity of a latent image obtained under a photographing condition of photographing luminance not more than A+5.0 in EV value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Aratame, Kijiro Suzuki, Kei Kaneiwa, Masami Fujita, Hideaki Haraga, Ken Ishida, Jun Kitahara, Hiroshi Kibayashi, Yoshichika Noda, Kiyoaki Hazama, Yuichi Atarashi, Kiyoshi Yamashita, Toshifumi Iijima, Shuri Mizoguchi, Takao Hosaka
  • Patent number: 5508783
    Abstract: In an apparatus for handling a photographic roll film on order of a customer, the film carries the customer code on its recording layer. The printing device reads the customer code on the recording layer of the film and prints the customer code onto photographic papers and an index-print sheet. The customer codes on the film, the photographic papers, and the index-print sheet are compared to ascertain the customer's identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Iwagaki, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 5002865
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, said material having silver halide emulsion layers on a support, the emulsion in said silver halide emulsion layers containing magenta coupler represented by the following formula (I), said emulsion containing silver halide grains which have a (110) plane and/or a crystal plane having an edge running through substantially the center of a (110) plane, the silver halide composition of said grains being substantially made of silver bromide and/or silver iodobromide: ##STR1## where Z represents a group of the non-metallic atoms necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing hetero ring which may have a substituent; X is a hydrogen atom or a substituent which is capable of being eliminated upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; and R is a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kumashiro, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Syoji Matsuzaka, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 4990437
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive materially having at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising a magenta coupler represented by formula I and negative type silver halide grains having a core-shell structure which consists of:(a) an inner core consisting essentially of silver bromide or silver iodobromide; and(b) a plurality of shells consisting essentially of silver bromide or silver iodobromide comprising:(i) an outermost shell containing 0 to 10 mol % of silver iodide;a high iodide-containing shell provided inside said outermost shell having a silver iodide content at least 6 mol % higher than that of the outermost shell; and(iii) an intermediate shell provided between the outermost shell and the high iodide-containing shell having a silver iodide content at least 3 mol % higher than that of the outermost shell, and at least 3 mol % lower than that of the high iodide-containing shell: ##STR1## Wherein Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Syoji Matsuzaka, Hiroshi Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 4977069
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having arranged thereon at least two each of red-sensitive layers, green-sensitive layers and blue-sensitive layers, wherein, with respect to each of the red-sensitive layers, the blue-sensitive layers and the green-sensitive layers, there are not less than two silver halide layers having different sensitivities, said material satisfying the following four requirements:a. the highest blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (BH) is arranged to serve as the silver halide emulsion layer in the farthest position from the support;b. the highest green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (GH) and the highest red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (RH) are interposed between the highest blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (BH) and a lower blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (Bh);c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Yoshitaka Yamada, Kenji Kumashiro, Hideo Akamatsu, Takashi Kamio
  • Patent number: 4840886
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support is disclosed. Said silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the 1H-pyrazolo [3,2-c]-S-triazole derived magenta couplers that have a substituent of the following formula at 3-position:--R.sub.1 --S(O).sub.n --R.sub.2whereinR.sub.1 is an alkylene group;R.sub.2 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl group; andn is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Koichi Hatta, Yuji Hotta, Hiroko Ohya, Noritaka Nakayama, Satoshi Kawakatsu, Katsunori Katoh, Kaoru Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 4777123
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising a light-sensitive multi-layer color photographic material having at least each one layer of blue-sensitive layer, green-sensitive layer and red-sensitive layer on a support, wherein;at least one blue-sensitive layer contains at least one kind of benzoyl type couplers,at least one green-sensitive layer contains at least one kind of pyrazoloazole type couplers, andat least one red-sensitive layer contains at least one kind of ureido type couplers.According to this invention, it is possible to obtain a light-sensitive material which has broad exposure latitude and is excellent in gradation characteristic, or a light-sensitive material which has broad exposure latitude and is excellent in graininess, or a light-sensitive material which has broad exposure latitude, is excellent in graininess and also good in a desilverization performance during processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 4770979
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic developer composition comprising a plurality of developer components, including an alkali agent, that are packed in two or more separate receptacles. At least one of the developer components, except the alkali agent, is encapsulated in an alkali soluble polymer, and is held in at least one receptacle that does not substantially contain the alkali agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Koboshi, Toshifumi Iijima, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 4766058
    Abstract: A photographic material comprising at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is disclosed. The silver density of the emulsion layer is not less than 4.0.times.10.sup.-1 g/cm.sup.3 and the dry thickness of the layer is not more than 4.0 .mu.m. A core/shell type silver halide emulsion and a high-speed reaction type scavenger for the oxidation products of a developing agent are preferably used for the emulsion layer. The photographic material has a high sensitivity and provides an image having a superior sharpness and resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sampei, Toshifumi Iijima, Yoshitaka Yamada, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Kenji Kumashiro, Yoshiharu Mochizuki, Syoji Matsuzaka, Hiroshi Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 4752558
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising at least one layer of green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (GH), at least one layer of red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (RH) and a plural number of blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers with different sensitivities, provided on a support, which is characterized in that one of the said plural number of blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers is provided as a silver halide emulsion layer (BH) positioned at the farthest side from the support, at least one layer GH and at least one layer RH are provided between the layer BH and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer lower in sensitivity than the layer BH, and further fine grains of silver halide are contained in at least one of the said blue-sensitive emulsion layer of lower sensitivity and a layer adjacent thereto. The fine grains of silver halide may have a blue-sensitive sensitizing dye adsorbed on the surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Shimura, Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Takashi Kamio
  • Patent number: 4746600
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material in which a DIR compound capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor or precursor thereof by the reaction with an oxidized form of a color developing agent is employed in combination with a non-diffusible dye and which sastisfies Condition A and B recited in the specification.By using the color light-sensitive material according to the present invention, the sharpness, particularly the edge effect (including the fringe effect and the border effect) of a photographic image has been greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Watanabe, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Toshifumi Iijima, Yoshiro Shigetomi, Toshihiko Yagi
  • Patent number: 4728603
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for uniforming a group of silver halide particles of a silver halide emulsion to be used in a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material into a group of particles which is monodispersive and whose crystal habit is tetradecahedral or octahedral so that the complication and instabilization of the conventional particles can be reduced to be processed. Namely, in a process for growing particles in which a water-soluble silver salt is added to a core emulsion and a silver halide is produced to add to the core, this method is to adjust the pAg values of an emulsion being applied to the abovementioned process to increase by not less than 0.3 multistepwise or continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yagi, Toshifumi Iijima, Syoji Matsuzaka, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Mikio Miura
  • Patent number: 4724198
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive emulsion layers, each layer consisting of two or more layers with different sensitivities on a support, wherein the layers are constituted so as to satisfy the following requirements (A), (B), (C) and (D):(A) of the respective emulsion layers having the highest sensitivities among the the red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive emulsion layers, the highest sensitivity blue-sensitive emulsion layer is provided on the side farthest from the support;(B) at least the the highest sensitivity red-sensitive emulsion layer and the highest sensitivity green-sensitive emulsion layer are provided between the the highest blue-sensitive emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive emulsion layer with lower sensitivity;(C) none of the respective red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive emulsion layers having the lowest sensitivities exists on the side farther than the low sensiti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Takashi Kamio, Shinya Shimura
  • Patent number: 4720452
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having silver halide emulsion layers on a support, wherein at least one layer of said silver halide emulsion layers contains surface latent image type mono-dispersed silver halide grains, and 50% or more of the silver halide grains contained in said at least one silver halide emulsion layer are regular surface latent image type mono-dispersed silver halide grains of tetradecahedral crystals whose external surfaces have crystal faces with Miller indices (100) and (111), the area ratio of said (100) face and said (111) face satisfying the relation represented by the correlation formula (I) shown below:correlation formula (I): ##EQU1## wherein K is the ratio between the intensities of respective diffraction lines attributable to the (200) face and the (222) face measured in X-ray diffraction analysis as set forth in the following formula ##EQU2##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Takiguchi, Toshifumi Iijima, Toshihiko Yagi, Yoshihiro Haga
  • Patent number: 4701404
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having blue-, green- and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers coated on a support is provided, each of said layers being composed of a plurality of sub-layers having different sensitivities. In said material, at least a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion sub-layer having high sensitivity is provided between a first green-sensitive silver halide emulsion sub-layer of high sensitivity and a second green-sensitive silver halide emulsion sub-layer having a lower sensitivity than said first green-sensitive sub-layer, said first green-sensitive sub-layer and/or said red-sensitive sub-layer with high sensitivity giving a maximum color density of formed dye in said material higher than 0.6 but not exceeding 1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Yoshitaka Yamada, Kenji Kumashiro, Takashi Kamio, Shinya Shimura
  • Patent number: 4692400
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer comprisesa phenol-type cyan coupler having at the 2-position of the penol nucleus thereof a group selected from the group consisting of a phenyl-ureido group, a naphthyl-ureido group and a heterocyclic ureido group, and having at the 5-position thereof an acylamino group, anda negative type silver halide grains of a core-shell structure which consisting of silver bromide or silver iodobromide and a plurality of shells essentially consisting of silver bromide or silver iodobromide, said plurality of shells comprising an outermost shell containing 0 to 10 mol % of silver iodide, a highly iodide-containing shell provided inside said outermost shell of which silver iodide content is at least 6 mol % of silver iodide, a highly iodide-containing shell provided inside said outermost shell of which silver iodide content is at least 6 mol % higher than that of said outerm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kumashiro, Toshifumi Iijima, Hideo Akamatsu, Syoji Matsuzaka
  • Patent number: 4665015
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a tertiary alkyl group; R.sub.2 is a secondary or tertiary alkyl group; X is a leaving group other than a hydrogen atom that leaves upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Koichi Hatta, Noritaka Nakayama, Satoshi Kawakatsu, Katsunori Katoh, Kaoru Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 4547458
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, said silver halide emulsion layer having a sensitivity to a certain spectral region and at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprising a plurality of different-speed light-sensitive layers wherein the difference in speed between the fastest-speed layer and the second fastest-speed layer of said plurality of light-sensitive layers, in terms of log I.multidot.t, is 0.2 to 0.7, and each of at least said fastest-speed and said second fastest-speed layers contains at least one monodispersed silver halide emulsion, said monodispersed emulsion being light-sensitive and consisting essentially of silver halide particles having a granularity distribution represented by the formulaS/r.ltoreq.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kiyoshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 4543323
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive layer constituted of a plural number of silver halide emulsions provided on a support, and a non-light-sensitive intermediate layer containing a diffusion resistant coupler capable of forming a migratable color forming dye or a compound capable of forming a flow-out type coupling product provided at least adjacent to the silver halide emulsion layer with the highest light sensitivity among the plural number of silver halide emulsion layers on its support side.The light-sensitive material according to this invention exhibits excellent photographic characteristics such as sensitivity, graininess, sharpness, storability and gradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Satoshi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Menjo
  • Patent number: 4521507
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-layer light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having plural silver halide emulsion layers having respective sensitivities to light at different spectral regions on a support, wherein at least 80% of the total number of silver halide grains contained in at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers having sensitivities to different spectral regions, comprise silver halide grains having grain sizes greater than 0.8 .mu. and silver halide grains smaller than 0.65 .mu..The multi-layer silver halide color photographic material according to this invention exhibits improved sharpness of the color images formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kiyoshi Yamashita