Patents by Inventor Toyoki Nishijima
Toyoki Nishijima 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: 5049482Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material improved in fastness to light of the color image formed thereon. The photographic material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye-forming coupler, a compound represented by the following Formula I, and a compound represented by the following Formula II: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a straight of branched chain alkenyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 5 to 18 carbon atoms or a straight of branched chain alkenyl group having 5 to 18 carbon atoms; and R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 each represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1989Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Masaki Tanji
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Patent number: 5039597Abstract: A method of forming a dye image suitable for a rapid process is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of,(i) imagewise exposing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support and provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains of which silver chloride content is not less than 90 mol %, and a magenta dye-forming coupler having a pKa value of not more than 8.80; and wherein the total amount of silver halide contained in said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive layers being not more than 7.8 mg/dm.sup.2 in terms of silver;(ii) color developing said photographic material; and immediately after the color development,(iii) processing said photographic material with a solution having a bleaching capability and having a pH value of from 4.5 to 6.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1990Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 5024932Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a support and, provided thereon, photographic component layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less tha 90 mole % and having been subjected to gold sensitization, said photographic component layer containing a gelatin of which isoelectric point being 4.0 to 5.0 and the film pH of said photographic component layer being not more than 6.0.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1990Date of Patent: June 18, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masaki Tanji, Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 5017465Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, wherein at least one said silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 80 mol %, a magenta dye-forming coupler represented by Formula (M-I), and at least one compound in accordance with Formulas (A) and (B); ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1987Date of Patent: May 21, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 5017464Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound represented by General Formula [I]; ##STR1## (wherein Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a releasing group; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent), the silver halide emulsion layer containing the compound of Formula [I] further containinga metal complex having a quenching rate constant of singled oxygen more than 3.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1, sec.sup.-1, anda compound having the General Formula [a-1] or [a-2]; ##STR2## (wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently an alkyl group; R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1990Date of Patent: May 21, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 5006454Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer containing (1) a pyrazoloazole magenta coupler, (2) an anti-color-fading agent having an oxidation potential (Eox) of 0.95(V)<Eox<1.50(V) and (3) a hydroquinone derivative.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1988Date of Patent: April 9, 1991Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Sasaki, Toyoki Nishijima, Shun Takada, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4959300Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is prevented from softening in gradiation of the toe proportion on the resultant characteristics curve during the storage of the material. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, and contains a magenta coupler represented by the following formula M-1 and at least one surface active agent having in the molecule thereof at least two groups selected from the group consisting of a carboxy group and salt thereof, a sulfonic group and a salt thereof and a salt of sulfric ester group. ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of nonmetal atoms necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocycle which may have a substituent group; X represents a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split off upon the reaction with the oxydized product of a color developing agent; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1988Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4954431Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a specific magenta coupler and a heterocyclic mercapto compound is disclosed. The photographic material is raised in its resistivity to magenta fogging caused by contamination of developer with bleaching solution, without degradation of color reproducibility. The photographic material is comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive layer and the emulsion layer contains a magenta coupler represented by the following Formula I and at least one of the emulsion layer and the non-light-sensitive layer contains a compound represented by the following formula S.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Masaki Tanji
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Patent number: 4954432Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic material comprising a support and provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-foming coupler having a formula [A] below and a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of not more than 6.0; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a halogen atom or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent an alkyl group which is capable of making said coupler non-diffusible in the photographic material; X.sub.1 represents a tertiary butyl group or a p-alkoxy phenyl group; X.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group which is capable of being split off during color development; and X.sub.3 represents a linking group.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1988Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 4945034Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which has excellent characteristics peculiar to pyrazoloazole type magenta couplers and yet good suitability to rapid processing, and shows improvement in the gradiation in respect of softening at the toe portion of characteristic curve thereof without impairment of the image preservability and other photographic properties. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide grain having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mole %, a compound represented by the following Formula I, and a compound capable of deactivating the oxidized product of a color developing agent with a relative reaction rate of not less than 1.6; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1989Date of Patent: July 31, 1990Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masaki Tanji, Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 4916050Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic material comprising on a support photographic component layers containing a compound of Formula [I] and/or Formula [II]:R.sub.1 OOC--R.sub.2 --COO--R.sub.3 --OOC--R.sub.2 --COO).sub.n R.sub.4 [I],R.sub.5 O--R.sub.6 --OOC--R.sub.7 --COO--R.sub.6).sub.n OR.sub.8 [II]wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.4 are independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group and a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are divalent groups independently selected from the group consisting of an alkylene group, an alkenylene group, a cycloalkylene group and a group of any combination of these groups; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each is either an acyl group or a phosphonyl group; and n is an integer of from 1 to 20; is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1988Date of Patent: April 10, 1990Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4912027Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises at least one of 1H-pyrazolo[5,1-Cl-1,2,4-triazole-type magenta couplers substituted by a compound having the following Formula [I] in the third position and at least one of these compounds having the following Formulas [II], [III] and [IV];--R.sup.1 --SO.sub.2 --R.sup.2 Formula [I]wherein R.sup.1 is an alkylene group having not less than three carbon atoms in the straight-chain portion which serves as an linkage group between the third-position carbon of the 1H-pyrazolo[5,1-Cl-1,2,4-triazole and the --SO.sub.2 --, and R.sup.2 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or aryl group; ##STR1## In Formula [II], Formula [III] and formula [IV], M is a metallic atom; X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a --NR.sup.7 --(wherein R.sup.7 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a hydroxyl group); X.sup.3 is a hydroxyl group or a mercapto group; Y is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1988Date of Patent: March 27, 1990Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4906559Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material which comprises a magenta coupler represented by the formula (I), a compound represented by the formula (XI), and further at least one compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds represented by the formulae (XII), (XIII) and (XIV): ##STR1## wherein Z, X and R have the same meanings as defined in the specification, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.21 to R.sub.25, A and X have the same meanings as defined in the specification, ##STR3## wherein R.sub.26 to R.sub.45 and J have the same meanings as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1989Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4868100Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which is improved on color reproducibility, image stability and toe gradiation. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler represented by the following Formula I and a water-soluble iridium salt in an amount of from 10.sup.-9 mol to 10.sup.-3 mol per mol of silver halide;Formula I ##STR1## In Formula I, at least one of the groups represented by R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 contains at least one group represented by the following formula II;Formula II--R.sub.5 --SO.sub.2 --R.sub.6.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1988Date of Patent: September 19, 1989Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 4863842Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material, which contains at least one magenta dye image forming coupler expressed by the following general formula [I], at least one piperazine or homopiperazine compound expressed by the following general formula [XIIIa], at least one compound selected from a coumarane or a chroman compounds expressed by general formula [XIIIa] and hydroxyindane compounds expressed by [XIIIb], below, is described as being stable to light and moisture, and featuring an excellent color reproducibility. ##STR1## The effect of the invention is further improved by additionally employing a metallic compound wherein an optical quenching rate of singlet oxygen is more than 3.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1 .multidot.sec.sup.-1.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1988Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Konica Technosearch CorporationInventors: Yutaka Kaneko, Kenzi Kadokura, Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4814262Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material improved in light-fastness of dye images and in prevention of yellow-stain formation in a non-colored area after processing. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon photographic structural layers including at least one silver halide emulsion layer. At least one of the photographic component layers contains a compound represented by the following Formula [I]: ##STR1## A magenta coupler represented by the following formula [M-I] is preferably used with the above compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1987Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Megumi IdeInventors: Shuichi Sugita, Shinji Yoshimoto, Naoko Shimada, Satoshi Nakagawa, Yutaka Kaneko, Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 4770985Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed which has formed on a support in sequence a silver halide emulsion layer incorporating a yellow coupler of the formula (I), a silver halide emulsion layer incorporating a magenta coupler of the formula (II), and a silver halide emulsion layer incorporating a cyan coupler of the formula (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkoxy group; R.sub.2 is --NHCOR.sub.3, --NHSO.sub.2 R.sub.3, --COOR.sub.3 or ##STR2## provided that R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each an alkyl group; and Z.sub.1 is a non-metallic atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered hetero ring together with a nitrogen atom); ##STR3## [wherein R.sub.5 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sub.6 is (provided that R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are each a hydrogen atom or an acyl group, and when R.sub.7 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1987Date of Patent: September 13, 1988Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shun Takada, Takashi Kadowaki, Masao Sasaki, Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4753870Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer on the support. At least one layer of the silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound of the Formula I ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of being split off upon reaction with an oxidation product of a color developing agent; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and a compound represented by formula 1R.sup.1 (O).sub.n SO.sub.3 Mwherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group; M represents a hydrogen atom or a cation and n is 0 or 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1987Date of Patent: June 28, 1988Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shun Takada, Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4752561Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler on a support, comprising at least one of the metal complexes having a quenching constant of singlet oxygen of 3.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1.sec.sup.-1 or higher and at least one of oil-soluble dyes, and which may further comprise at least one of the magenta couplers represented by the formula (I) shown below: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of non-metal atoms necessary for formation of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, and the ring formed by the Z may have substituents; X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent eliminable through the reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1986Date of Patent: June 21, 1988Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
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Patent number: 4731320Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having one or more silver halide emulsion layers formed on a support is disclosed wherein at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one cyan coupler of formula (I) dispersed therein with the aid of a high-boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of not more than 6.0: ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 is a straight- or branched-chain alkyl group having 2 or 4 carbon atoms; X is a hydrogen atom or a group capable of leaving upon coupling reaction; and R.sub.2 is a ballast group).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1986Date of Patent: March 15, 1988Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Sasaki, Toyoki Nishijima, Shun Takada, Takashi Kadowaki, Kaoru Onodera