Layers Sensitive To Different Spectral Regions Patents (Class 430/503)
  • Patent number: 5389504
    Abstract: A photographic element including a support and first and second green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers of different sensitivity, wherein the layer of higher sensitivity includes a two-equivalent magenta dye-forming coupler selected from the group consisting of a pyrazolone coupler having a structure according to formula I and a pyrazoloazole coupler having a structure according to formula II as set forth in the disclosure, and the layer of lower sensitivity includes a two-equivalent magenta dye-forming coupler selected from the group consisting of couplers defined by formulas I and II. The activity of the magenta dye-forming coupler present in the layer of lower sensitivity is less than the activity of the coupler present in the layer of higher sensitivity. The layers of higher and lower sensitivity do not comprise magenta couplers which are defined by the same formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Hans G. Ling, Drake M. Michno, Stephen Singer
  • Patent number: 5387500
    Abstract: A photographic element including a support and at least two green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers of different sensitivity, each emulsion layer including a two-equivalent pyrazoloazole magenta dye-forming coupler having a structure according to formula I of the disclosure. The activity of the dye-forming coupler present in the layer of lower sensitivity is less than the activity of the dye-forming coupler present in the layer of higher sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Hans G. Ling, Drake M. Michno
  • Patent number: 5385813
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material comprising at least one negatively developing, green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler can be adjusted to any desired sensitivity of that layer without any changes in other sensitometric properties by addition of at least one compound corresponding to general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein is hydrogen or halogen,Y is NR.sub.2, O or S andis hydrogen or C.sub.1-4 alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Sieghart Klotzer, Otto Lapp
  • Patent number: 5384230
    Abstract: A process for forming interconnection lines on a printed circuit board is described. The surface of a circuit board substrate is covered with a photoresist layer, and the photoresist layer in turn is covered with a halide emulsion layer. The emulsion layer is then exposed to a predetermined pattern of white light, and the image developed. The board is then exposed to UV light through the imaged emulsion layer which acts as a pattern masking selected portions of the photoresist mask. The emulsion layer is then stripped and the photoresist processed in conventional manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Inventor: N. Edward Berg
  • Patent number: 5382500
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said green-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one coupler represented by Formula M-I and at least one of a non-color-forming compound represented by Formula A-1 or A-2: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting upon making a reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent; and Z represents a group consisting of metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring:Formula (A-1)R.sub.21 --NHSO.sub.2 --R.sub.22wherein R.sub.21 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Sugita, Hidenobu Ohya, Masakazu Tonishi
  • Patent number: 5382501
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer and a blue-sensitive layer, wherein said blue-sensitive layer comprises three or more silver halide emulsion layers, wherein the difference between the average silver iodide content of said emulsion contained in the highest sensitivity layer of said blue-sensitive layers and the average silver iodide content of said emulsion contained in the lowest sensitivity layer of said blue-sensitive layers is represented by Equation 1, and the sum total of the silver halides contained in said silver halide color light-sensitive material is not more than 9.0 g/m.sup.2 in terms of metal silver;Equation 1Average silver iodide content of the highest sensitivity layer -average iodide content of the lowest sensitivity layer.ltoreq.6 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoie
  • Patent number: 5382499
    Abstract: A photographic film is disclosed particularly adapted for underwater photography. The film is comprised of a film support, a blue recording layer unit capable of forming a yellow dye image, a green recording layer unit capable of forming a magenta dye image, and a red recording layer unit capable of forming a cyan dye image. At an exposure temperature of 5500.degree. K. and an optical density of 0.8 above minimum density the red recording layer unit exhibits a speed that is (T/10) log E greater than that of the green recording layer unit, where E is exposure in lux-seconds and T is the light transmission distance in meters through water required to match the speed of the red recording layer unit to the speed of the green recording layer unit, T being in the range of from 1.5 to 15 meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Brian W. Keelan, Robert Niklewicz, Diane P. Libby, John V. Nelson
  • Patent number: 5380636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a symmetrical radiographic assembly comprising:a double side radiographic element which comprises a support and hydrophilic colloid layers coated on each side of said support, andan intensifying screen adjacent to each side of said radiographic element,wherein on each side of said support are coated at least two silver halide emulsion layers having a speed difference of at least 0.5 logE and an average contrast difference of at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Pierfiore Malfatto, Sergio Pesce, Elio Cavallo
  • Patent number: 5378591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reversal color photographic material.The material contains three elements which are photosensitive to the three regions of the spectrum respectively. Each element contains at least two emulsions having different speeds. In at least one of the elements, the fastest emulsion is a polydisperse emulsion exhibiting a sensitization higher than the optimum, the other emulsions being monodisperse emulsions.Obtention of a material less sensitive to the processing conditions, without degradation of the other photographic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gerard M. Droin, Simone J. Kempen
  • Patent number: 5378581
    Abstract: A method for patterning a tape to which an integrated circuit may be bonded including providing a tape having a top layer of unexposed film which, when exposed in an interconnection pattern and developed, acts as a mask for processing a photoprocessable layer of the tape to provide conductive portions in an interconnection pattern on the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: The Foxboro Company
    Inventor: Robert D. Vernon
  • Patent number: 5376512
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises, in a yellow color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, one of nondiffusible yellow couplers represented by formula (I-1) or (I-2) and an organic compound represented by formula (II), or further an organic compound represented by formula (III): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with the >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-releasing group, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, and R.sup.7 each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an aliphatic-oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic-oxycarbonyl group, or a carbamoyl group, provided that each of R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, and R.sup.7 does not represent a hydrogen atom at the same time, ##STR3## wherein R.sup.8, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5374507
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having excellent color reproducibility, sharpness and image fastness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5364733
    Abstract: A photothermographic element containing a transparent substrate having one major surface thereof containing the following layers sequentially coated thereon: an image-receiving layer; an opacifying layer; a first dry silver layer; an interlayer containing thermoplastic polymer; a second dry silver layer; an interlayer containing thermoplastic polymer; and a third dry silver layer, wherein the first, second, and third dry silver layers each contain a light-insensitive, reducible silver source; light-sensitive silver halide, and as a reducing agent for the light-insensitive, reducible silver source, a material oxidizable to a colored dye whose color differs from that capable of being formed in each other dry silver layer, each of the dry silver layers being individually sensitized to light of different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Raymond J. Kenney, Takuzo Ishida, Richard C. Cotner
  • Patent number: 5364748
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photo-graphic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having excellent color reproducibility, sharpness and image fastness. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having provided thereon a photographic constituent layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, and non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 5362615
    Abstract: A color-photographic recording material comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer associated with a cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer associated with a magenta coupler, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer associated with a yellow coupler, at least one layer of the material containing a hydroquinone diether compound having the following formula I and optionally at least one compound having one of the formulae II, III, IV, V, SA and SB given in the description, characterized by increased light stability of the image colorants produced during chromogenic development, ##STR1## In the formula: R.sup.1 denotes alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl;R.sup.2 denotes H, alkyl;R.sup.3, R.sup.4 denote H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, halogen, alkoxy, aroxy, acyloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, acyl, sulphonyl, sulphamoyl, acylamino, sulphonylamino, nitro;R.sup.5 denotes H, acyl, alkyl;X denotes --O-- or --NR.sup.6 --;R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa AG
    Inventors: Jorg Hagemann, Ralf Weimann, Erich Wolff, Johannes Sobel
  • Patent number: 5360704
    Abstract: A camera-sensitive color photographic recording material which comprises 2 or 3 green-sensitive layers, 2 or 3 red-sensitive layers and 2 or 3 blue-sensitive layers, the blue-sensitive layers being arranged further from the support than the green-sensitive and red-sensitive layers, the layer of low blue-sensitivity or the layer of low blue sensitivity and the layer of medium blue sensitivity being made up of silver halide emulsions containing at least 50 mol-% AgCl and the total silver coating of the material being adjusted as a function of sensitivity to a value which satisfies the following relation:Ag coating=(0.27.multidot.S)-X,the silver coating being determined in g/m.sup.2, X having a value of 1.9 to 3.8 and S being the sensitivity in DIN, is distinguished by improved sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Detlef Brennecke
  • Patent number: 5360703
    Abstract: Multicolor photographic elements are disclosed containing at least three dye image forming layer units. An enhancement of the speed-granularity relationship of a dye image is obtained when the corresponding dye image forming layer unit contains at least three superimposed silver bromoiodide emulsion layers. The emulsion layer nearest the support containing an average iodide content of up to 60 percent the iodide content of the next overlying of the emulsion layers. The three emulsion layers each differ in speed from the next adjacent of the emulsion layers, with the fastest of the emulsion layers being located nearest the source of exposing radiation and being at least one half stop faster than the next adjacent layer and the slowest of the emulsion layers being located farthest from the source of exposing radiation and being at least one half stop slower than the next adjacent layer. The three emulsions layers are each tabular grain emulsion layers with tabularities of greater than 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth P. Chang, James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 5352569
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a cyan color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, a yellow color-forming silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic layer disposed farther from the support than any of these silver halide emulsion layers, in which the light-insensitive hydrophilic layer contains nonglobular fine-particle powder in a dispersion in an amount of at least 25% by weight based on the whole components therein, thereby ensuring excellent tone reproduction in the images and reduced dependence of image qualities upon the positions of viewing light sources. In addition, the color photographic material can provide images well-expressing a feeling of massiveness even in rapid photographic processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyohito Takada
  • Patent number: 5350665
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having thereon a yellow dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said yellow dye image forming layer, magenta dye image forming layer and cyan dye image forming layer exhibit a maximum spectral sensitivity in the range of 400 to 490 nm, 530 to 570 nm and 660 to 720 nm, respectively, said silver halide emulsion of said cyan dye image forming layer comprises a silver chloride, silver bromochloride or silver bromochloroiodide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more with a maximum spectral sensitivity given by J-band absorption of a compound represented by the general formula (I), ##STR1## wherein the variables are described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hasebe, Shigeaki Otani, Yasuhiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5342742
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having an improved spectral absorption characteristic, excellent color reproducibility and yet a sufficiently low minimum density, comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer containing the cyan dye-forming coupler contains at least one cyan coupler represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and the silver halide emulsion layer containing the yellow dye-forming coupler contains at least one yellow coupler represented by the following formula (III): ##STR1## With the substituents as defined herein the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Makoto Suzuki, Takehiko Sato
  • Patent number: 5334469
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of extracting two or more spectral image records from an imagewise exposed multicolor photographic element containing a plurality of tabular grain emulsions for individually recording imagewise exposure in at least two different regions of the visible spectrum. In each of the tabular grain emulsions tabular grains exhibiting a mean equivalent circular diameter of greater than 0.4 micrometer and a mean thickness of less than 0.2 micrometer account for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area. No more than one of the tabular grain emulsions exhibits a mean tabular grain thickness of less than 0.07 micrometers, and each of tile remaining tabular grain emulsions exhibit a coefficient of variation of tabular grain thickness of less than 15 percent. The mean tabular grain thickness of emulsions for recording imagewise exposure to different regions of the visible spectrum differs by at least 0.02 micrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James E. Sutton, John Gasper, Allen K. Tsaur, Ann Tarn
  • Patent number: 5330875
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor and process for its utilization have been discovered through which negative and positive original images can be printably reproduced on the plate precursor in substantially fewer development steps. The precursor plate is exposed sequentially to either the negative or positive original with the resultant image subsequently developable in a single process or step. The process is achieved by using a precursor plate having two coatings of significantly different photographic sensitivity to light, i.e., speed as characterized by "camera speed" or "contact speed" and imagewise exposing the originals in sequence to alternative speeds. The contact speed coating may be negative-working or positive working while the camera speed coating is negative-working. The camera speed coating is developed followed by exposure of the contact speed coating. Images produced at camera speed are removed and non-image bearing portions of the contact speed coating are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Adelman, Robert W. Hallman, Suck-Ju Hong, Ken-Ichi Shimazu, Burton H. Waxman
  • Patent number: 5328817
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises at least one yellow coupler represented by the following formulas (1) or (2), and at least one cyan coupler represented by the following formula (C): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue required to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction of the coupler represented by said formula with the oxidized product of a developing agent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclyc group, R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5324626
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises a compound represented by formula (I) in a photosensitive layer or a non-photosensitive layer and a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by formula (II), (III), or (IV) in a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a silyl group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, or an R.sub.o group; R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a substituted amino group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an R.sub.p group, an R.sub.q group, an R.sub.r group, an R.sub.s group, an R.sub.t group, or an R.sub.u group; R.sub.1a, R.sub.1b, and R.sub.1c have the same meaning as that of R.sub.1 ; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, or R.sub.5 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiko Shono, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5324625
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains a silver salt of dye. The light-sensitive material has a raised sharpness, lowered fog and improved storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Hirabayashi, Yasushi Usagawa, Yasuhiko Kawashima, Nobuaki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 5318884
    Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials and processes employ at least one coupler having a coupling-off group which includes a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring which bears a silyl substituent on at least one of its ring carbon atoms and is attached via another of its ring atoms either directly or through a linking group or atom to the coupling position of the coupler. The silyl substituent bears three groups which are independently aromatic groups, heterocyclic groups, aliphatic groups or additional silyl groups bonded through a linking atom to the silicon atom in said silyl substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5310636
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having less roller marks and a rapid drying speed while maintaining a high sensitivity, and a development processing method therefor is disclosed. The silver halide photographic material comprising a support having, on at least one side thereof, two or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers comprising a binder and a silver halide emulsion having a silver iodide content of 1 mol % or less, wherein the silver iodide content of the emulsion layer closest to the support is less than the silver iodide content of any of the emulsion layers further from the support than the emulsion layer closest to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ohmatsu, Rikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 5306604
    Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials are disclosed comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a coupler having in a non-coupling position a silyl substituent represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.4 individually are unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, R.sub.5 is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group which can be bonded to a non-coupling position of a second coupler moiety, and n=0, 1 or 2. In a preferred embodiment, the coupler is a photographic image dye-forming coupler. Processes for developing images in the photographic materials are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5304463
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having photosensitive layers and non-photosensitive layers adjacent to photosensitive layers on a base, which comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler selected from a group consisting of couplers represented by formulas (I), (II), and (III) and a compound represented by the following formula (IV): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form together with the C a cyclic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group that has a heteroatom of N, S, O, or P, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing the acyl group ##STR2## from the coupler represented by formula (I), provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, ##STR3## wherein X.sup.1, and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Sato, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5302499
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material is disclosed which contains tabular silver halide emulsion grains of specified dimensions in at least two color records to enable improved speed and sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James P. Merrill, Lois A. Buitano, Allan F. Sowinski, Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 5302494
    Abstract: A microporous, photoprocessable, moderately hydrophilic material on which metal can be deposited directly using electroless plating techniques, and its use in preparing printed wiring boards and circuit components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: The Foxboro Company
    Inventors: Paul E. Grandmont, Harold Lake, Richard A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5300413
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of extracting two or more spectral image records from an imagewise exposed multicolor photographic element containing a plurality of tabular grain emulsions for individually recording imagewise exposure in at least two different regions of the visible spectrum. In each of the tabular grain emulsions tabular grains exhibiting a mean equivalent circular diameter of greater than 0.4 micrometer and a mean thickness of less than 0.2 micrometer account for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area. No more than one of the tabular grain emulsions exhibits a mean tabular grain thickness of less than 0.07 micrometers, and each of the remaining tabular grain emulsions exhibit a coefficient of variation of tabular grain thickness of less than 15 percent. The mean tabular grain thickness of emulsions for recording imagewise exposure to different regions of the visible spectrum differs by at least 0.02 micrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James E. Sutton, John Gasper, Allen K.-C. Tsaur, Ann Tarn
  • Patent number: 5300412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or light-insensitive layer on a support, wherein the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer contains a yellow coupler selected from the group consisting of a yellow coupler represented by the following formula (I), a yellow coupler represented by the following formula (II) and combinations thereof, and a cyan coupler selected from the group consisting of a phenolic cyan coupler having a phenylureido group at the 2-position and a carbonamido group at the 5-position, a naphtholic cyan coupler having an amino group at the 5-position and combinations thereof; ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; X.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 5298375
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material which contains a particular epoxy compound having slight solubility in water, an acylacetamide type yellow dye forming coupler the acyl group of which is a cycloalkane type and a pyrazolotriazole type magenta dye forming coupler which contains specified substituents and splitting-off group to produce color images of high keeping quality, especially to produce a yellow dye image with excellent hue and reduced discoloration upon long-range storage in the dark, and, what is more, to inhibit magenta color stain from generating in the yellow dye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Deguchi
  • Patent number: 5296343
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic emulsion spectrally sensitized in the wavelength range longer than 730 nm, and full-color recording materials containing such a photographic emulsion. The photographic emulsion has undergone J-band sensitization by containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) in an amount of from 0.3 to 0.9 based on the specific addition amount defined in the disclosure, at a temperature ranging from 60.degree. C. to 85.degree. C. to gain a spectral sensitivity maximum at a wavelength from 730 nm to 900 nm: ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each represents a sulfur or selenium atom; Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 each represents a methylene group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group; R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclyl group; L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 each represents a methine group; A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 each represents the atoms necessary for completing a benzene ring; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine with L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Takashi Kato, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5294524
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises in a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer acylacetamide yellow dye-forming couplers represented by the following formula (I) and in a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer cyan dye-forming couplers represented by the following formula (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form together with the C a substituted or unsubstituted 3- to 5-membered cyclic hydrocarbon group or a substituted or unsubstituted 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic group having therein at least one heteroatom selected from a group consisting of N, O, S, and P, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing the acyl group from the acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler, provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 represents --CONR.sup.4 R.sup.5, --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.4 R.sup.5, --NHCOR.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ishii, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5273866
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising: a support; at least a blue-sensitive emulsion layer, a green-sensitive emulsion layer, and a red-sensitive emulsion layer on the support, and one or more hydrophilic colloidal layers thereon containing a dispersion of microcrystals of at least one compound represented by general formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), and (VI); and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a silver density (d) of 0.4 g/cm.sup.3 or more, wherein d is N/V; where N represents the total number of grams of silver in said one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and V represents the cm.sup.3 of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Katsuro Nagaoka, Shinsuke Bando
  • Patent number: 5273871
    Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprising a dispersing medium and light-sensitive silver halide grains wherein said silver halide grains each comprise:(a) a high silver iodide-containing phase having a silver iodide content of not less than 15 mol % in the internal portion,(b) a low silver iodide-containing phase locating outside the phase (a) and having a silver iodide content lower than that of the phase (a), and(c) a surface phase having a silver iodide content higher than that of an inner phase adjacent thereto,and wherein a part or all of the phase (c) and a part or all of the phase (a) or the phase (b) are formed by supplying a fine silver halide grain emulsion prepared in the presence of protective colloid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takada, Sadayasu Ishikawa, Shoji Matsuzaka
  • Patent number: 5272048
    Abstract: A multicolor photographic element capable of forming a viewable reversal dye image is disclosed comprising a support and, coated on the support, a blue recording yellow dye image forming layer unit, a green recording magenta dye image forming layer unit, and a red recording cyan dye image forming layer unit, each of the layer units containing in at least one layer a silver halide emulsion having a grain halide content of from 0 to 5 mole percent chloride, from. 0.5 to 20 mole percent iodide, and from 80 to 99.5 mole percent bromide, based on total silver.The photographic element is characterized in that at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers is a tabular grain emulsion layer in which the coefficient of variation of the tabular grain emulsion is less than 15 percent, based on the total grain population of the emulsion, and the total grain population of the tabular emulsion consists essentially of tabular grains having a mean thickness of less than 0.3 .mu.m and a mean tabularity of greater than 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sang H. Kim, Mamie Kam-Ng, Allen K. Tsaur, Jacob I. Cohen, Richard A. Demauriac, George H. Hawks, III, John D. Baloga
  • Patent number: 5258271
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which comprises, in said photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a coupler selected from the group consisting of yellow dye-forming couplers represented by formulas (Y-I) to (Y-III), as defined in claim 1, and a quenching coupler selected from the group consisting of cyan dye-forming couplers or magenta dye-forming couplers represented by formula (C-I), (C-II), (C-III), (M), or (m), as defined in claim 1, or a quenching dye obtained by a coupling reaction of above couplers with the oxidized product of a developing agent represented by formula (A) as defined in claim 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akimitsu Haijima, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5258270
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having on a support at least one cyan dye-forming coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta dye-forming coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer and at least one yellow dye-forming coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the cyan dye-forming coupler is a 1-naphthol type coupler having a naphtol nucleus, in which a group represented by the following formula (I) binds directly to the 2-position of the naphthol nucleus, and the magenta dye-forming coupler is a 1H-pyrazolo[1,5-b]-1,2,4-triazole type coupler, ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group; R.sup.2 represents a substituent group; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group; l represents an integer from 0 to 4; and m represents an integer from 0 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Hiroo Takizawa, Yoshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 5254446
    Abstract: A silver halide color negative photosensitive material comprises at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler formed on a transparent support, wherein it contains 4.times.10.sup.-4 to 3 g, per m.sup.2 of the support, of a ferromagnetic fine powder and that the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains a coupler such as ##STR1## The photosensitive material makes it possible to shorten a printing time and has an excellent sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinpei Ikenoue, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Seiji Ichijima
  • Patent number: 5252444
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on the support, wherein the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.B of the spectral sensitivity distribution in said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer at 400 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.B .ltoreq.470 nm, the sensitivity of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer at 480 nm does not exceed 40% of the sensitivity at the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.B and the gradient of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer after blue light separation exposure .gamma..sub.SB and the gradient of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer after white light exposure .gamma..sub.WB bears the relationship of .gamma..sub.SB /.gamma..sub.WB .ltoreq.1.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Satoru Shimba
  • Patent number: 5250403
    Abstract: Novel tabular grain emulsions and a process for their preparation are disclosed in which silver bromoiodide tabular grains account for greater than 97 percent of total grain projected area and the coefficient of variation of the total grain population is less than 25 percent. This is achieved by forming in a first reaction vessel and transporting to a second reaction vessel a population of silver bromide grain nuclei in the form of regular octahedra having an equivalent circular diameter of less than 40 nanometers and a coefficient of variation of less than 50 percent and in the second reaction vessel converting the grain nuclei into a grain population containing parallel twin planes in more than 90 percent of the grains, so that upon further growth silver bromoiodide tabular grains of desired properties can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael G. Antoniades, Richard L. Daubendiek, David E. Fenton, Jeffrey L. Hall, Ramesh Jagannathan
  • Patent number: 5244779
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising on a reflective support at least three light-sensitive emulsion layers having different color sensitivities. At least one of the light-sensitive emulsion layers comprises a silver halide emulsion spectrally sensitized with at least one compound represented by the formula (I) in a red sensitive layer. At least one of the light-sensitive emulsion layers or light-insensitive layers comprises on the support at least one compound represented by the formula (II), (III) or (IV). The total amount of silver halide emulsion on the support is 0.65 g/m.sup.2 or less as calculated in terms of coated amount of silver. The formulas are shown and defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Asami
  • Patent number: 5236817
    Abstract: A multicolor photographic element capable of forming a viewable reversal dye image is disclosed comprising a support and, coated on the support, a blue recording yellow dye image forming layer unit, a green recording magenta dye image forming layer unit, and a red recording cyan dye image forming layer unit, each of the dye image forming layer units containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprised of a vehicle and silver halide grains having (1) a halide content of from 0 to 5 mole percent chloride, from 0.1 to 20 mole percent iodide, and from 80 to 99.9 mole percent bromide, based on total silver. At least one of the silver halide emulsion layers in one of the layer units positioned to receive exposing radiation prior to at least one of the green or red recording layer units is a tabular grain emulsion layer in which a polyalkylene oxide block copolymer is present selected to allow the preparation of tabular grains having a mean thickness of less than 0.3 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sang H. Kim, Mamie Kam-Ng, Allen K. Tsaur, Jacob I. Cohen, Richard A. Demauriac, George H. Hawks, III, John D. Baloga
  • Patent number: 5212056
    Abstract: A multilayer silver halide color photographic element comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a blue spectral sensitizing dye and a supersensitizing amount of a disulfide compound of formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, equal or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, R.sub.5 represents a hydrogen atom, a formyl group or an acetyl group, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, equal or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, or R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 represent the elements needed to complete an unsaturated cyclic nucleus.The combination provides a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having high sensitivity, low fog and good resistance against fading of the latent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Walter Beltramini, Ivano Delprato
  • Patent number: 5212053
    Abstract: The invention is generally accomplished by forming a translucent display material comprising a substrate and sensitized layers wherein said substrate comprises a paper that has a light transmission rate of greater than 17 percent. It is preferred that the paper have a basis weight of less than 120 grams per square meter that is resin-coated on both sides. The paper of the invention when exposed and developed has a difference between maximum density and minimum density of greater than 2.5. The sensitized layers prior to imaging comprise at least one layer comprising cyan dye-forming coupler, at least one layer comprising magenta dye-forming coupler, and at least one layer comprising yellow dye-forming coupler. In preferred forms, the paper has a basis weight of between 70 and 100 grams per square meter for a balance of translucence and strength. The couplers preferably are present in the following amounts: cyan coupler greater than 0.6 grams per square meter, magenta coupler greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gary J. McSweeney, John F. Bacilek, John H. Goselin
  • Patent number: H1196
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, whereina maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.R of a spectral sensitivity distribution of said red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is in a range of 595 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.R .ltoreq.625 nm;a maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.G of a spectral sensitivity distribution of said green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is in a range of 530 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.G .ltoreq.560 nm; anda sensitivity of said green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer at 500 nm is not less than one-fourth of the sensitivity at the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.G.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Fumie Fukazawa, Katuya Yabuuchi, Hirofumi Ohtani
  • Patent number: H1243
    Abstract: A silver halide color photoqraphic light-sensitive material having an excellent graininess, sharpness and color reproducibility, particularly of green colors including yellowish qreen and bluish qreen is disclosed. Among silver halide emulsion layers, the blue-sensitive layer is located furthest from a support and the outside thereof, has a non-light-sensitive layer. And the optical specifications of these two layers are as specified in the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Shimba, Keisuke Tobita, Kenji Michiue, Katuya Yabuuchi