And Antifoggant Or Color Stabilizer Patents (Class 430/551)
  • Patent number: 5360702
    Abstract: Melt crystallization of a photographic composition containing dispersed particles of a filter dye and dispersed particles of oxidized developer scavenger, in particular a hydrazide or a disulfonamidophenol oxidized developer scavenger, is inhibited by dispersing the oxidized developer scavenger in the composition in the form of particles comprising the oxidized developer scavenger dispersed or dissolved in an organic solvent selected such that the following relationship is satisfied:6.65+10.0 A-1.53 B+0.11 B.sup.2 -0.99 AB<4.0wherein A is the weight ratio of organic solvent to oxidized developer scavenger; and B is the log P of the organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Glenn M. Brown, John B. Rieger
  • Patent number: 5360705
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color forming silver halide emulsion layer. The yellow color forming emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, a yellow coupler and a bisphenol compound and optionally a difficultly water-soluble epoxy compound. One or more layers of the light-sensitive material may contain an ultraviolet light absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 5356759
    Abstract: A color reversal image forming process using a color reversal photographic material is disclosed. The process comprises an exposure step, a black and white development step, a reversal step, a color development step and a desilvering step. The color reversal photographic material comprises a support and one or more silver halide emulsion layers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprises silver halide containing chloride of not less than 90 mole %, iodide of 0 mole % and bromide of not more than 10 mole %. According to another embodiment, at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprises silver halide containing chloride of not less than 88 mole %, iodide of 0.1 to 2 mole % and bromide of not more than 10 mole %. The silver halide emulsion layer further contains a compound represented by the formula (Ia) or (Ib): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.11 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a heterocyclic group or an aryl group; X.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Mitsui, Takatoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5356763
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material enables rapid processing, provides a high quality image and has excellent light fastness under extensive conditions, even under high humidity comprises a support, provided thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers each containing at least one different coupler for forming a different dye by a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and each having a different light sensitivity, and at least one anti-color mixing layer provided between each of the emulsion layers and comprising a light-insensitive layer, wherein at least one of the above silver halide emulsion layers contains silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more and a magenta coupler represented by the following formula (I) and at least two of the anti-color mixing layers contain at least one anti-color mixing agent having a molecular weight of 350 or more and at least one high boiling organic solvent having the dielec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Nobutaka Ohki
  • Patent number: 5352572
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a combination of at least one yellow dye-forming coupler of the following general formula (1) with at least one discoloration inhibitor of special amide, phosphorus or hydrazine compound type to prevent the dye images, especially the yellow dye image, formed therein from discoloring or changing their colors; ##STR1## wherein X.sup.3 represents an organic residue completing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclyl group together with ##STR2## Y represents an aromatic or heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group capable of splitting off when the coupler represented by the foregoing formula reacts with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Akira Ogawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5352573
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having an improved color forming property, color reproducibility and image preservative performance is described. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising (a) a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following formulas (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein Za, Zb, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and X represent substituents described herein; (b) a compound represented by the following formula (A): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.a1 -R.sub.a6 represent substituents described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Makoto Suzuki, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5342747
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler and a specific lipophilic compound. The color photographic material have improved color reproducibility and preservability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5340709
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I are suitable as light stabilizers for the image dyes produced by chromogenic development from pyrazoloazole couplers ##STR1## In Formula I, R.sup.1 represents H, a group that can be split off under alkaline conditions, alkyl or aryl;R.sup.2 represents --OH, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy or ##STR2## R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 represent H, --OH, --COOH, --SO.sub.3 H, --SO.sub.2 H, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, sulphonyl, sulphamoyl, acylamino or ##STR3## at least one of the groups R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 being a group of the formula ##STR4## A represents alkylene with 1-6 C atoms; n represents 0 or 1,R.sup.7 represents H or alkyl, optionally substituted alkyl,R.sup.8 represents optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl with 4-20 C atoms;R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 can form a 5- or 6-membered ring, in which case R.sup.2 =--OH or alkoy;R.sup.2 and R.sup.4 can form a 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Jorg Hagemann, Gunter Helling
  • Patent number: 5340694
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material contains at least one hydrazine compound of formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, and R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 each may be bonded to each other to form a non-aromatic ring; provided that the carbon atom of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 which is directly bonded to a nitrogen atom of the hydrazine core of the compound is not substituted by an oxo group. The material has a high sensitivity and does not tend to fog. After storage, depression of the sensitivity of the material is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Ryoji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 5332655
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material. The material comprises a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akiko Shono
  • Patent number: 5330886
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material having a support, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a pyrazoloazole magenta coupler, at least one other layer which is arranged closer to the source of light and at least one other layer arranged further away from the source of light than the silver halide emulsion layer containing the pyrazoloazole magenta coupler, these other layers containing gelatine and a randomly or alternatingly structured copolymer of vinyl alcohol and an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a graft polymer of vinyl acetate on polyalkylene oxide followed by saponification of the acetate groups is distinguished by improved stability to light of the magenta dye obtained after processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Gunter Helling, Gunter Renner
  • Patent number: 5330887
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having on one side thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer corresponding to each of the colors cyan, magenta, and yellow in which each of the colors cyan, magenta and yellow, respectively, are formed, wherein the layer which forms a magenta color is a green sensitive layer comprising (A) at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or formula (II) below ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R'.sub.2 and X are as defined in the above specification and (B) silver halide grains which have been spectrally sensitized in such a way that they have a peak sensitivity between 540 nm and 555 nm by at least one spectrally sensitizing dye represented by the formulae (A), (B) and (C) below ##STR2## wherein W.sub.1, W.sub.2, V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4, V.sub.5, V.sub.6, R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.23, R.sub.24, R.sub.25, R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28, R.sub.29, Y, X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hasebe, Kiyoshi Nakazyo
  • Patent number: 5330888
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer. At least one layer of silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler of formula (I) or (II) and at least one lipophilic compound selected from the group consisting of phenol compounds of formula (A), sulfur peroxide compounds of formula (B) and amide compounds of formula (C): ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Nobuo Seto
  • 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: 5322767
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having at least three light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each sensitive in a different wavelength region. At least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one adsorbable reducing compound represented by a hydroquinone containing a group capable of promoting adsorption to silver halide grains and a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %. The photographic material is well adapted for rapid processing and maintains constant sensitivity with a change in humidity upon exposure and when stored for a long period of time prior to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Ohshima, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 5316888
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color diffusion transfer photographic film unit improved in separability and light fastness. It comprises (1) a light sensitive sheet having an image receiving layer, a white reflective layer, a shading layer and at least one silver halide emulsion layer having at least one dye image forming substance, which layers are formed on a transparent support, (2) a transparent cover sheet comprising a neutralization layer and a neutralization timing layer, which layers are formed on a transparent support, and (3) a shading alkali treating composition developed between the light sensitive sheet and the transparent cover sheet. Further, the image receiving layer contains a hydrazine derivative represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiedaki Naruse, Jiro Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5316903
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of sparingly water-soluble epoxy compounds represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) given below and a dye-forming coupler in a layer on a base. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent an alkyl group or a halogen atom, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic organic group, M represents an oxygen or nitrogen atom, A represents a polyvalent linking group, a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4, x and y each are a real number of 0 to 20, l is 1 or 2, and m is an integer of 2 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Tomiyama
  • Patent number: 5314796
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material excellent in both sharpness and whiteness of background while being capable of satisfactorily displaying the yellow coupler characteristics including an excellent color reproduction is provided, wherein the silver halide color photographic light sensitive material contains a compound represented by the following Formula [I] in at least one of the photographic component layers thereof, a compound represented by the following Formula [II] in at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers thereof, and a compound represented by the following Formula [III] in at least one of the photographic component layers; and ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Murai, Makoto Kajiwara, Hirokazu Sato, Shinri Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 5310638
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support, a blue sensitive layer, a green sensitive layer and a red sensitive layer. The total silver content of the photographic material is not more than 1.0 g/m.sup.2. The photographic material further contains a compound represented by the formula (1a) or (1b): ##STR1## in which R.sup.12 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; M is --CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --N(R.sup.15)CO--, --OCO-- or --N(R.sup.15)SO.sub.2 --; each of R.sup.14, R.sup.15 and R.sup.24 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group or an aryl group; L is a divalent linking group necessary for forming a 5, 6 or 7-membered ring; each of R.sup.11, R.sup.13 and R.sup.21 independently is hydrogen or a substituent group of the hydroquinone nucleus; Time is a group which is released from the oxidation product of the hydroquinone nucleus to further release X; X is a development inhibitor; and t is 0 or 1. M preferably is --SO.sub.2 --, --N(R.sup.15)CO--, --OCO-- or --N(R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadanobu Shuto, Takashi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 5310643
    Abstract: Compounds corresponding to Formula I are suitable as light stabilizers for the image dyes produced from colour couplers by chromogenic development. They are also suitable as oil formers for the colour couplers. In a colour photographic recording material, they are preferably used in combination with a pyrazoloazole coupler and associated with a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. ##STR1## In Formula I, R.sup.1 denotes H, a group which can be split off under alkaline conditions, alkyl or aryl;R.sup.2 denotes OH, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy or ##STR2## R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 denote H, OH, COOH, SO.sub.3 H, SO.sub.2 H, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, sulphonyl, sulphamoyl, acylamino or ##STR3## and at least one of the groups R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 is a group of the formula ##STR4## A denotes an alkylene group having 1-6 carbon atoms, n stands for 0 or 1,R.sup.7 denotes H or an optionally substituted alkyl group,R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiangesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Helling, Jorg Hagemann
  • 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: 5300419
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one cyan dye forming coupler of the following general formula (C-1) and at least one compound of the following general formula (I) in the same layer of the material: ##STR1## where R.sub.0 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;X represents a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split off by a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; andAr represents an aromatic group; ##STR2## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent an aliphatic group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may be bonded to each other to form a 5-membered to 8-membered ring along with the nitrogen atom in the formula;the compound of formula (I) may form a dimer or a higher polymer at the position of R.sub.1, R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Masakazu Morigaki, Hidekazu Sakai, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Shigeru Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5300394
    Abstract: A solid particle aqueous dispersion of a compound useful in imaging is prepared by milling an aqueous slurry of the compound in the presence of a fluorosurfactant. The resulting dispersion has improved stability to particle growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David D. Miller, Mary C. Brick
  • Patent number: 5298368
    Abstract: Photographic coupler compositions comprise (a) a pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler compound, and (b) a sulfoxide compound in an amount sufficient to reduce continued coupling of the coupler compound during the bleach step of a color photographic process. The sulfoxide compound is of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are individually selected from the group consisting of straight and branched chain alkyl groups, alkenyl groups and alkylene groups; straight and branched chain alkyl groups, alkenyl groups and alkylene groups containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkoxy, aryloxy, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido and carbamoyl groups and halogen atoms; a phenyl group; and a phenyl group containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido and carbamoyl groups and halogen atoms. Additionally, R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Edward Schofield, Stephen P. Singer
  • Patent number: 5298374
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a hydrophilic colloid layer, on a paper base, containing a compound selected from the group consisting of sparingly water-soluble epoxy compounds represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) given below and a dye-forming coupler in a layer on a base wherein the pH of raw paper is 5 to 9. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent an alkyl group or a halogen atom, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic organic group, M represents an oxygen or nitrogen atom, A represents a polyvalent linking group, a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4, x and y each are a real number of 0 to 20, l is 1 or 2, and m is an integer of 2 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Tomiyama, Akira Kase
  • Patent number: 5294529
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a base, which comprises in the silver halide emulsion layer a magenta coupler, an image-dye stabilizer, and a high-boiling organic solvent of which the weight ratio to the coupler is 3.0 or over. The disclosure as described provides a color photographic material being excellent in color reproduction and having improved light-fastness of magenta color image with good balance from high density part to low density part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoko Idogaki, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5294527
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a base, which comprises in said silver halide emulsion layer a dispersion including at least one yellow coupler represented by the following formula (1) or (2) and at least one water-insoluble homopolymer or copolymer: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sub.3 represents an organic residue required to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with the >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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Deguchi
  • Patent number: 5294530
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon one or more hydrophilic colloid layers, at least one layer which is a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing in the same layer a color coupler selected from a yellow coupler and a cyan coupler and at least one anti-fading agent represented by formula (I): ##STR1## The novel anti-fading agent effectively prevents yellow and cyan dye images from fading or discoloration, and does not adversely affect other photographic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5294528
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a magenta coupler and a compound that can break the aggregation of azomethine dye formed from said magenta coupler and the oxdized product of the color-developing agent. The silver halide color photographic material exhibits an excellent effect that the light-fastness of image dye and the color reproduction are good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 5290671
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic reflection print element comprises a paper support impregnated or coated with a substance that lowers its oxygen transmission rate and its oxygen leak rate, at least one polyolefin-containing layer containing a total of at least 70 g/m.sup.2 or a polyolefin coated on the paper support, and at least one color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, said emulsion layer or layers overlying a polyolefin-containing layer. In one embodiment, the paper support is impregnated with a substance that lowers its oxygen gas transmission rate to less than 1 cc/m.sup.2 /day and its oxygen leak rate to less than a 25 cc/m.sup.2 /day. The support has low permeability to oxygen and to water vapor. The silver halide color photographic element produces a dye image with improved resistance to fading by light, particularly under conditions of prolonged exposure to low-intensity light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Brian Thomas, David J. Lacz, William A. Mruk, Todd R. Skochdopole
  • Patent number: 5290668
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed comprising a support comprising a base material and a water resistant resin layer containing titanium dioxide particles in an amount of at least 14% by weight of the water resistant resin layer, said support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on the same side of the support as the water resistant resin layer, said photographic material having an optical reflection density of at least 0.70 at 680 nm, said photographic material containing at least one compound represented by formula (I) or (II) and at least one compound represented by formula (III), the total layer thickness of the constituent photographic layers provided on the support after immersing in a color developing solution for at least 60 seconds is at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeaki Ohtani
  • Patent number: 5288599
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material and an image forming process using the same are disclosed. Said silver halide color photographic material comprises a reflecting support and provided thereon three light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers each having a different light sensitivity to a different wavelength region, including 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. The silver halide color photographic material satisfies the following conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Kazunori Hasebe, Kentaro Osazaki
  • Patent number: 5286615
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support, a blue sensitive layer, a green sensitive layer and a red sensitive layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer. The non-light-sensitive layer is an intermediate layer arranged between the silver halide emulsion layers. According to the present invention, the non-light-sensitive intermediate layer contains a compound represented by the formula (1a) or (1b): ##STR1## in which R.sup.12 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; M is --CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --N(R.sup.15)CO--, --OCO-- or --N(R.sup.15)SO.sub.2 --; each of R.sup.14, R.sup.15 and R.sup.24 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group or an aryl group; L is a divalent linking group necessary for forming a 5, 6 or 7-membered ring; each of R.sup.11, R.sup.13 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadanobu Shuto, Akio Mitsui
  • Patent number: 5284740
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described comprising a support having provided thereon one or more red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, one or more green sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and one or more blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers wherein the average silver iodide content of silver halide in all the silver halide emulsion layers is not less than 10 mol% and the silver halide color photographic material contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I):Q--SM.sup.1 (I)wherein Q represents a heterocyclic group having at least one group selected from --SO.sub.3 M.sup.2, --COOM.sup.2, --OH and --NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 directly or indirectly connected thereto; M.sup.1 and M.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, a quaternary ammonium or a quaternary phosphonium; and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Yoshihiro Fujita, Masatoshi Goto
  • Patent number: 5284742
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which gives a color image excellent in the light-fastness and color reproducibility. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer, and the emulsion layer contains a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by Formula Y-I and a compound represented by Formula I: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; R.sup.2 is an alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, an acyl group or an aryl group; R.sup.3 is a substituent; n is 0 or 1; X.sup.1 is a substituent capable of splitting off upon coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; and Y.sup.1 is an organic group, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.A and R.sub.B are independently an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an alkenyl group; and R.sub.C and R.sub.D are independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an alkenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumasa Yamazaki, Shigeto Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 5284739
    Abstract: Photographic materials having incorporated sulphonyhdrazide color developing agents. Such photographic materials have at least two color-forming units, each of which has a silver halide emulsion layer and a photographic coupler. A ballasted heterocyclic sulphonhydrazide color developing agent is present in the material in droplets of a high boiling point solvent. A method of forming a photographic color image using such materials is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David Clarke, John D. Goddard, Paul L. R. Stanley, Nigel E. Milner
  • Patent number: 5278040
    Abstract: A reflective silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a reflective support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer wherein the support have an oxygen permeability of not more than 2.0 ml/m.sup.2 .multidot.hr.multidot.atm and the silver halide emulsion layer contains a magenta coupler represented by the following Formula I; ##STR1## wherein Ar is an aryl group; Y is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting off upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; X is a halogen atom, an alkoxy group or an alkyl group; R is a strait- or branched-chain alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; J is a strait- or branched-chain alkylene group; and n is an integer of from 0 to 4, when n is 2 or more, the plurality of Xs may be the same or different. The light-sensitive material is excellent in red color reproducibility and light fastness of red colored images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Ohya, Shuji Murakami, Masanobu Miyoshi, Hideaki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 5278039
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a color image which does not discolor for a long period of time and having a high preservation property. The light-sensitive material contains a novel anti-fading agent represented by following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, or an aliphatic oxy group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be the same or different and each represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, and a heterocyclic group; R.sub.4 represents a substituent; R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 each represent a hydrogen atom and a substituent; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, and R.sub.4 and R.sub.2 may be combined with each other to form a 5- to 8-membered ring, and a dimer or other polymer may be formed with R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 ; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8, and R.sub.8 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5278038
    Abstract: Light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one of said emulsion layer contains light-sensitive silver halide grains having outer surfaces principally comprised of {100} face, and a magenta dye image forming coupler represented by Formula (I) shown below: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of nonmetal atom necessary for formation of a nitrogen-containing hetero ring; said ring formed by Z may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent eliminable by the reaction with an oxidant in a color developing agent; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.which can porovide a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having high sensitivity, being low in fogs, and having improved color reproducibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Miyoshi, Makoto Kajiwara, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 5275926
    Abstract: There is provided a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which is improved in sensitivity, fog and resistance to formalin, and capable of providing photoprins of the same hue irrespective of the type of a printer employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Hirabayashi, Shuichi Sugita, Katsumasa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5273867
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a photographic layer includinga silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains and a binder and a specific pyrazolone type magenta coupler,a non-light-sensitive layer comprising a binder and a compound of Formula II being a liquid at 15.degree. C., and provided adjacently to the surface of said silver halide emulsion layer closer to sais support, anda layer provided at the outermost position of said photographic layer containing a compound represented by Formula II; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 are each a secondary or tertiary alkyl group and a number of carbon atoms Contained in the groups represented by R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 is 20 or more in total.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Shibuya, Takashi Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 5270158
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer provided on the support. The emulsion layer comprises a mixture of at least two kinds of silver halide emulsions which different from each other in sensitivity. The emulsion layer contains a magenta coupler represented by Formula II and the non-light-sensitive layer contains a compound represented by formula II: ##STR1## wherein Ar is an aryl group; Y is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of releasing upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; X is a halogen atom, an alkoxy group or an alkyl group; n is an integer of 0 to 4, Xs are the same or different when n is 2 or more; R is a strait chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakatsugawa, Takaaki Kojima
  • Patent number: 5268261
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises, a paper support having thereon a photographic constituent layer containing at least each one of a yellow coupler-containing layer, a magenta coupler-containing layer and a cyan coupler-containing layer, wherein that said magenta coupler is represented by formula (I), the weight ratio of a high boiling organic solvent in the same layer as said yellow coupler to said yellow coupler is 0.40 or less, and the pH value of the raw paper constituting said support is in the range of 5 to 9.In a preferred embodiment, at least one of the yellow couplers is represented by formula (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Sakakibara, Shigehisa Tamagawa, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5266456
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material containing a silver halide emulsion having a high silver iodide content and containing a novel yellow colored cyan coupler. The material has a high sensitivity, a good graininess, an excellent color reproducibility and a sufficient sharpness. The material has at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer on a support and is characterized in that it contains at least one yellow colored cyan coupler, that the emulsion layer contains chemically sensitized silver halide grains, and that the chemically sensitized silver halide grain in the emulsion has a silver iodobromide phase with a silver iodide content of from 15 to 45 mol % as a distinctly layered structure and has a silver iodide content of more than 7 mol % based on the whole grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Takayoshi Kamio
  • Patent number: 5264335
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material is described which comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler compound capable of releasing a development accelerator or fogging agent and which material also contains silver halide grains which are more developable than the grains in the silver halide emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter J. Twist, John R. Jarvis
  • Patent number: 5264332
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material containing a support having thereon three color-forming layers, which comprises, in said color-forming silver halide emulsion layers, high-silver-chloride grains, silver halide grains in the cyan color-forming layer being spectrally sensitized with a red-sensitive sensitizing dye having a prescribed reduction potential, and/or, in the cyan color-forming layer, an oil-soluble cyan coupler that cause coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine developing-agent to form a nondiffusible dye, a compound represented by formula (I) or (II), and a compound represented by formula (II) or (IV). ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a halogen atom, R.sub.2, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.7, and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeaki Otani, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 5258278
    Abstract: Photographic coupler compositions comprise a pyrazolotriazole magenta dye-forming coupler and an performance-improving amount of a carbonamide compound. Improved performance is indicated by increased photographic speed, improved light stability of the resulting magenta dye and/or desired hypsochromic hue shifts in the resulting magenta dye. Color photographic materials and methods employ the coupler compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul P. Merkel, Edward Schofield
  • Patent number: 5256524
    Abstract: Disclosed is a processing method for silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material in which a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is processed with a processing solution capable of fixation and then a part or all of the overflow from stabilizer is allowed to enter in the processing solution capable of fixing wherein said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a coupler represented by Formula 2eq-1 and said stabilizer contains substantially no formaldehyde but contains a compound represented by Formula I or Formula II: ##STR1##R.sub.1 --O--(R.sub.2 --O).sub.m --X.sub.1 (Formula I) ##STR2## The total amount of silver coated in said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is not less than 3 g and not more than 10 g per m.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshimoto, Shigeharu Koboshi, Masao Ishikawa, Mayumi Emoto
  • Patent number: 5248586
    Abstract: The improved silver halide color photographic material having as photographic constituent layers a blue-sensitive, a green-sensitive and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, as well as at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer on a support is characterized in that at least one of said photographic constituent layers contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following formula: ##STR1## (where R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a monovaluent substituent; and R.sub.2 is a group having a Hammett's value .sigma..sub.p of at least 0.2). This color photographic material is satisfactorily protected against deterioration in photographic performance such as reduced color or gamma, color contamination or increased fog even if it is exposed to formaldehyde and other deleterious gases for a long time of storage before it is subjected to color development and subsequent photographic processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Nagaoka, Shigeto Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 5244776
    Abstract: A method of forming a color image in a silver halide color photosensitive material comprisingexposing the photosensitive material in a scanning exposure system for a time period shorter than about 10.sup.-4 second per picture element, and thereaftersubjecting the exposed material to development processing for a total processing time of about 90 seconds or less, inclusive of drying time,the photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers differing in color sensitivity, at least two of which have a spectral sensitivity maximum in the wavelength region of about 670 nm or longer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises (a) at least one coupler capable of developing color upon coupling reaction with the oxidized form of an aromatic amine compound and (b) at least one compound of general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein the variables are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kawai