Patents by Inventor William R. Schleigh

William R. Schleigh 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: 5972574
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye-forming coupler represented by Formula I: ##STR1## wherein R" represents the group ##STR2## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 independently selected all groups, provided that any two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 may join to form a ring;R.sup.4 is hydrogen or a substituent, provided that R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may join to form a ring when R.sup.4 is a substituent; andW is a specified substituent having the formula: ##STR3## and wherein the remaining substituents are as described in the specification. The use of the coupler of Formula I lends improved manufacturability and dye light stability to the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Susan M. Fischer, Robert F. Romanet, Daniel L. Kapp, Paul A. Burns, Paul P. Spara, Rakesh Jain, William R. Schleigh
  • Patent number: 5605787
    Abstract: Magenta image-dye couplers provide photographic elements and processes having superior photographic properties. The couplers are 3-anilino pyrazolone couplers having an aryl thio coupling-off group. The substituents of the coupler are specified to obtain advantageous properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John L. Pawlak, David S. Bailey, William R. Schleigh, Charles E. Romano, Jr., Paul B. Merkel, Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5561037
    Abstract: Dye fade in photographic images prepared from a silver halide photographic element having a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a pyrazoloazole dye forming coupler is reduced by using a combination of stabilizer compounds of formula S, formula I and optionally formula R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Rakesh Jain, William R. Schleigh
  • Patent number: 5491054
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide containing layer which also contains a 2-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler, a thiomorpholine dioxide compound which has an alkoxy substituted aryl group substituent on the ring nitrogen, a compound of formula (I) below, and a hydroquinone compound of formula (R) below: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.31 are independently an alkyl group or H; R.sub.11, R.sub.12 and R.sub.21 are alkyl groups.The presence of the compound (I) when used with the two-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler and compounds (R) and (S), can result in a photographic element with low printout and/or thermal discoloration problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Rakesh Jain, William R. Schleigh, Robert C. Stewart
  • Patent number: 5484696
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic element having a light sensitive silver halide which layer also contains a 2-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler, a compound of formula (S) below, and a hydroquinone compound of formula (R) below: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is an alkyl group; and R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently an alkyl group or H.The presence of the compound (S) when used with the two-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler and compound (R), can result in low magenta dye fade, increased wavelength of maximum absorption of the magenta dye and increased magenta dye bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Rakesh Jain, William R. Schleigh, Robert C. Stewart
  • Patent number: 5447830
    Abstract: Magenta image-dye couplers provide photographic elements and processes having superior photographic properties. The couplers are 3-anilino pyrazolone couplers having an aryl thio coupling-off group. The substituents of the coupler are specified to obtain advantageous properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John L. Pawlak, David S. Bailey, William R. Schleigh, Charles E. Romano, Paul B. Merkel, Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5183894
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 2-substituted-1-hydroxyindoles of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein, R.sup.1 is an electron withdrawing group,R.sup.2 is an alkenyl having 2-10 carbon atoms, and N-substituted .alpha.-iminobenzyl group wherein the substituents are selected from the group consisting of phenyl, anilino and dimethylamino, an unsubstituted aromatic group, and an aromatic group having meta or para substituents which are nitro, trifluoromethyl, fluoro, formyl, hydroxyiminomethyl and carbamoyl,R.sup.3 is a halogen atom, andn is 0, 1, or 2,provided that when R.sup.2 is either phenyl or nitro substituted phenyl and n is 0, then R.sup.1 is not cyano.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William R. Schleigh, Thomas R. Welter
  • Patent number: 5118695
    Abstract: 1-Hydroxyindoles of the following formula are useful in controlling fungi: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is hydrogen or an electron withdrawing group;R.sup.2 is selected from the group consisting of alkenyl having 2-10 carbon atoms, N-substituted-.alpha.-iminobenzyl, an unsubstituted or substituted aromatic group and acyl of 2-16 carbon atoms,R.sup.3 is selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms, andn is 0 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William R. Schleigh, Thomas R. Welter