Substituted At Coupling Position With Other Than Hydrogen Patents (Class 430/557)
  • 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: 5298383
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer on a support, in which at least 50%, as the total projected area, of all the silver halide grains in at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer are tabular grains having a mean aspect ratio of 2 or more and at least one layer constituting the material contains a coupler of the following formula (I) and/or a coupler of the following formula (II): ##STR1## where X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; X.sup.3 represents an organic residue forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group along with >N-- in the formula; Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group capable of being released from the formula when the coupler of the formula reacts with an oxidation product of a developing agent. The material preferably contains a compound of formula (A):Q--SM.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Naoki Saito, Shunichi Aida
  • 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: 5296339
    Abstract: A method for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising color developing the silver halide color photographic material with a color developer and then processing the photographic material with a processing solution having bleaching activity, in which the photographic material contains a coupler represented by the following general formula (I) and the replenishment rate of the color developer is not more than 600 ml/m.sup.2 of photographic material: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary for forming a 5-membered unsaturated heterocyclic ring together with a ##STR2## R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic oxy group or ##STR3## wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Fujita, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 5294531
    Abstract: A bicyclo[m.n.0]alkane-1-ylcarbonylacetamide-based yellow dye-forming coupler wherein m represents an integer of 2 to 5, n represents an integer of 1 to 3, the sum of m and n is an integer of 3 to 7, and 0 represents zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Yoshio Shimura
  • 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: 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: 5290669
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having photographic component layers on a support and at least one layer of which contains a silver salt of dye, is disclosed. The material has properties of high sharpness, high speed, less fogging and excellent raw stock stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Hirabayashi, Yasushi Usagawa, Nobuaki Kagawa, Yasuhiko Kawashima
  • Patent number: 5288594
    Abstract: A combination of a development inhibitor releasing coupler having a particular releasable mercaptotetrazole group; a concentration within the range of 2.5 to 25 mg/m.sup.2, that does not accelerate bleaching of the element upon exposure and processing, of a dye-forming naphtholic or acetanilide coupler comprising a coupling-off group represented by the formula ##STR1## as described in the specification, with a particular alkoxy-benzoyl yellow dye-forming coupler also as described in the specification in a photographic silver halide element and process enables improved dye images upon exposure and processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph W. Manthey, David M. Niklewicz, Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 5286616
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having provided therein a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and plural light-insensitive layers, wherein the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a monodisperse silver halide emulsion and a yellow coupler represented by formula (I) defined below, and at least one light-insensitive layer which is positioned farther from the reflective support than the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is a hydrophilic colloid layer containing at least one hydrophobic compound represented by formula (II) defined below, and a relative refractive index of an organic phase containing the hydrophobic compound with the exception of a volatile organic solvent and an amphipathic solute to a hydrophilic polymer thin film which forms the light-insensitive layer is in a range from 0.9875 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sakai, Fuyuhiko Mori
  • 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: 5283166
    Abstract: An acylacetamide-type yellow dye-forming coupler. The acyl group of the coupler is a bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane-1-carbonyl group, a bicyclo[2.1.1]hexane-1-carbonyl group, a bicyclo[2.2.1.]heptane-1-carbonyl group, a bicyclo[2.2.2]octane-1-carbonyl group, a tricyclo[3.1.1.0.sup.3,6 ]heptane-6-carbonyl group, a tricyclo[3.3.0.0.sup.3,7 ]octane-1-carbonyl group, or a tricyclo[3.3.1.0.sup.3,7 ]nonane-3-carbonyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Yoshio Shimura
  • Patent number: 5283163
    Abstract: A photographic development inhibitor releasing compound comprises a releasable development inhibitor group comprising an amide group containing a carbon alpha to the amide functionality which is di- or tri-fluorinated. Such a compound is useful in photographic silver halide materials and processes to enable increased image sharpness and good interimage results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gregory J. Lestina, David T. Southby, Wojciech Slusarek, David A. Steele, Teh-Hsuan Chen
  • Patent number: 5278026
    Abstract: An optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a thin organic film containing at least one kind of dye selected from polymethine family dyes, perylium family dyes, and cyanine family dyes, and a recording process comprising scanning the optical recording medium with a high intensity light beam such as a laser beam to form optically detectable pits on the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuharu Katagiri, Yoshihiro Oguchi, Yoshio Takasu
  • 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: 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: 5273869
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having a photographic constituent layer containing an yellow color-forming coupler, a magenta color-forming coupler and a cyan color-forming coupler on a reflective support, characterized in that when each coupler is color-formed independently, the rate of a maximum value of CIE 1976L*a*b* color difference between a colored portion and a minimum density portion of cyan relative to a smaller value of yellow or magenta is 80% or more, and .DELTA.E.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Tanaka, Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 5273868
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon 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, wherein at least one type of acylacetamide type yellow coupler in which the acyl group represented by formula [I] indicated below is included in said blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one type of magenta coupler represented by formula [M] indicated below is included in said green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a univalent group, Q represents a group of non-metal atoms which, together with C, is required to form a three to five membered hydrocarbon ring or a three to five membered heterocyclic ring which has within the ring at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, O, S and P, with the proviso with R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5272043
    Abstract: A photographic DIR (development inhibitor-releasing) acetanilide coupler containing a carboxy group on the anilide moiety or a DIR naphtholic coupler containing on the 2-position a --CONH.sub.2 or --CONHCH.sub.3 group, capable upon oxidative coupling of forming a dye capable of being washed out of a photographic element upon processing, contains, in the coupling position, a coupling-off group comprising, in sequence, at least one ballasted linking group and at least one releasable development-inhibitor group (INH) which is a mercaptotetrazole group which enables a Log P in a pH 10 buffer of lower than -0.8. Such a DIR coupler is especially useful in a color photographic silver halide material and process which enables the dye formed from the DIR coupler to be washed out of the photographic material upon processing and enhanced color saturation through interimage effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Hans G. Ling
  • Patent number: 5270156
    Abstract: Disclosed is 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, wherein at least one of green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one of magenta couplers represented by Formula M-I and at least one of compounds capable of releasing a development inhibitor or a precursor of a development inhibitor, upon reaction with oxidized products of a development agent, represented by Formula D-I; ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group consisting of a non-metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen containing heterocyclic ring, provided, the ring formed by the Z may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group releasable upon reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agents; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Hirabayashi, Shuichi Sugita, Katsumasa Yamazaki
  • 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: 5260177
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a novel cyan dye-forming coupler or a combination of a specific cyan dye-forming coupler with an .alpha.-pivaloylacetoanilide type yellow dye-forming coupler or a pyrazoloazole type magenta dye-forming coupler, the specific cyan dye-forming coupler being contained in the silver halide emulsion layer in the form of an emulsion of lipophilic fine particles obtained by mixing the coupler with at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homo- or co-polymer to form a dispersion. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is excellent in the reproduction of yellow, magenta and cyan colors and has low fog of cyan. Thus, the light-sensitive material can provide color images excellent in the fastness of the cyan color images.The cyan dye-forming coupler is represented by general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Aoki, Michio Ono, Katsuyoshi Yamakawa, Shigeru Yamazaki, Kei Sakanoue, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • 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: 5250406
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer that contains an acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler whose acyl group is represented by formula (Y-I) and a compound represented formula (I). ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, O represents a group of nonmetallic atoms required to form together with C a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring that contains a hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, O, S, and P, provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and it does not bond to Q to form a ring. ##STR2## wherein A represents an oxidation-reduction (redox) residue or its precursor, which is an atomic group that allows --Time).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5238803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which contains a coupler which can be represented by formula (1): ##STR1## wherein X1 and X2 each represent an alkyl group or a heterocyclic group, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group which is eliminated when the coupler which is represented by formula (1) reacts with an oxidized form of a developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Naoki Saito, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 5236804
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon photographic component layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said photographic component layers contains a compound represented by the following formula:A--(Time)n--FL--BLwherein A represents a group capable of releasing a group of --(Time)n--FL--BL upon reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; Time represents a timing group; FL represents a group which comes to emit fluorescence when a --BL is split off; BL represents a group capable of being split off; and n represents an integer of 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Tanaka, Hirokazu Sato, Satoru Ikesu
  • Patent number: 5227282
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least three kinds of silver halide emulsion layers with different color sensitivities on a reflective support and also having yellow, magenta and cyan color forming couplers for forming colors related to developing of said silver halide emulsions, characterized in that when the coupler for forming color related to said color sensitive silver halide emulsion bearing primarily cyan color image is color formed to a cyan image density of 0.4, the color difference (color difference .DELTA.E in the CEI 1976 L*a*b* color space) from the minimum density is .DELTA.E.gtoreq.23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Tanaka, Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 5221599
    Abstract: A compound used as a silver halide photographic light sensitive material for releasing a photographically useful group (PUG) by the reaction with an oxidized developing compound during the developing process is disclosed.The compound has several timing groups so that the releasing can be controlled by several steps of the reactions to meet a required timing.The compound can be modified with various kinds of substituents so that the width of the reacting area is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Eisaku Katoh, Shuichi Sugita, Shuji Kida
  • Patent number: 5219716
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material characterized in that the light-sensitive silver halide photographic material is processed with a color developer in an amount of 20 to 150 ml/m.sup.2 replenished and contains a yellow coupler represented by the formula (Y-1) shown below: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl group; R.sub.2 an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or acyl group; R.sub.3 is a group substitutable on benzene ring; n is 0 or 1; X.sub.1 represents a group eliminable during coupling with the oxidized product of a developing agent; and Y.sub.1 an organic groupand a method for processing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Takada, Takahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5217857
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon one or more layers having a surface pH of 5.0 to 6.5, including at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a gold-sensitized silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol % and a coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aryl group or a tertiary alkyl group; R.sub.2 represents fluorine, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group or an arylthio group; R.sub.3 is a group which is substituted for a hydrogen atom on the benzene ring; X represents hydrogen or a group capable of being cleaved upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; and l is 0 or an integer from 1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5215878
    Abstract: A photographic element is described which comprises a non-diffusible yellow dye-forming coupler having improved solubility in conventional coupler solvents. Yellow dye-forming couplers are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Siu C. Tsol
  • Patent number: 5215877
    Abstract: Disclosed are a yellow coupler represented by the following formula (I) and a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which comprises a two-equivalent yellow coupler represented by the following formula (I) being contained in at least one of the above silver halide emulsion layers: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.3 represents a straight unsubstituted alkyl group having 8 to 20 carbon atoms; X represents >NR.sub.4, --O-- or --S(O).sub.n --; Y represents >NR.sub.5 or ##STR2## where R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each represent an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; and R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 each represent hydrogen atom, --OR.sub.8, ##STR3## and --S(O).sub.P R.sub.8 (where R.sub.8 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group and an aryl group; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Tomotake, Noboru Mizukura
  • Patent number: 5213958
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a yellow image forming photographic coupler, which is capable of forming images having excellent color reproduction and image fastness, and which has a high reactivity with an oxidized form of a developing agent. The aforementioned object has been realized by means of a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material containing a coupler represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents an organic residual group which is required, together with the nitrogen atom, to form a nitrogen containing heterocyclic ring, Y represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group which is eliminated when the coupler represented by said general formula reacts with the oxidized form of a developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masuji Motoki, Seiji Ichijima, Naoki Saito, Takayoshi Kamio, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 5212052
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided comprising on a support at least one blue-sensitive layer, one green-sensitive layer and one red-sensitive layer, wherein said blue-sensitive layer comprises at least one yellow dye-forming coupler represented by the following general formula (1) and/or (2) and said green-sensitive layer comprises at least one magenta dye-forming coupler represented by the following general formula (M): ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X.sub.3 represents an organic residue which forms a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with >N--; Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group which separates from the remainder of the molecule when the coupler undergoes a reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Akira Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5204232
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that at least one layer of the above silver halide emulsion layers contains a compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein n represents 0 or 1; A represents a compound residue which cleaves a bonding to Time in the case of n=1 or a compound residue which cleaves one of bondings to FL in the case of n=0; Time represents a timing group which cleaves a bonding to FL after cleavage from A; and FL represents a compound residue which emits fluorescence by cleavage of a bonding to Time in the case of n=1 and a compound residue which emits fluorescence by cleavage of one of bondings to A in the case of n=0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sato, Shigeo Tanaka, Satoru Ikesu
  • Patent number: 5200306
    Abstract: Couplers corresponding to formula I below used in multilayer color photographic recording materials are suitable for the release of photographically active compounds. ##STR1## In formula I above, A represents the residue of a coupler which, as a consequence of a reaction with the oxidation product of a silver halide developer under the photographic development conditions, releases a radical corresponding to the following formula ##STR2## Time represents a bond which, on reaction of the coupler with the oxidation product of a silver halide developer, is released together with the triazole ring attached thereto and, in turn, releases the triazole ring with delay under the development conditions;n=0, 1 or 2;R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent any substituents, provided the compound of formula II ##STR3## as a whole is a photographically active compound after release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Odenwalder, Hans Vetter, Peter Bergthaller, Dirk Hubner
  • Patent number: 5194369
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material containing a coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, same or different, each represent a group capable of substituting a benzene ring; Y represents a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, an alkylthio group, an aryloxy group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylthio group, or a carbamoyl group; X represents an organic residue necessary to form a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring together with the nitrogen atom; l represents 0 or an integer of from 1 to 5; and m represents 0 or an integer of from 1 to 4.The coupler of formula (I) is excellent in dye image stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Seiji Ichijima, Toshio Kawagishi, Naoki Saito, Masuji Motoki
  • Patent number: 5192650
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon a photographic layer containing at least one compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.01, R.sub.02 and R.sub.03, which may be the same or different, represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.01 and R.sub.02, R.sub.02 and R.sub.03, and R.sub.01 and R.sub.03 may be combined with each other, provided that all of R.sub.01, R.sub.02 and R.sub.03 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; each of X.sub.01, X.sub.02 and X.sub.03, which may be the same or different, represents a mere bond, --O--, --S-- or ##STR2## and R.sub.04 has the same meaning as R.sub.01.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5190853
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed. The photosensitive material comprises a support and a hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a yellow coupler. According to the present invention, the layer further contains a color image stabilizer in an amount of 10 to 200 mole % based on the amount of the yellow coupler. The color image stabilizer and the yellow coupler are together contained in droplets of a medium which are dispersed in the layer. The color image stabilizer is an organic compound having the following formula [I] or [II]: ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinyl group, a phosphoryl group, a carbamoyl group or a sulfamoyl group; each of R.sup.5 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5190848
    Abstract: The invention provides a photographic coupler of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, and R.sup.3 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group. The couplers in accordance with the present invention provide image dyes of improved quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Michael W. Crawley
  • Patent number: 5187055
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said photographic material containing at least one coupler represented by the following general formula (I) in a constituent layer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulfonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkoxysulfonyl, aryl, aryloxy, arylthio, arylsulfonyl and aryloxycarbonyl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a group by which benzene can be substituted; Z represents nonmetal atoms necessary to form a 5- to 7-membered single or condensed hetero ring together with the nitrogen atom; and m and n each represents an integer of from 0 to 4, and when they are each a plural number, a plural R.sub.3 or a plural R.sub.4 may be the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Shimada, Seiji Ichijima, Yoshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 5187056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic material, which contains a novel yellow coupler of formula (I) in at least one hydrophilic colloid layer which is provided on a support, ##STR1## where R.sup.1 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 5-membered unsaturated hetero ring together with a residue of ##STR2## in the formula; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 5183731
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, at least an emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler represented by the general formula (I) and a sparingly water soluble epoxy compound represented by the general formula (II): ##STR1## An excellent dye images with improved yellow image storability, particularly, heat and wet heat fastness can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 5169749
    Abstract: The improved silver halide photographic material has a substantially colorless coupler that has a leaving group with a protected formyl group at the active site, said protected formyl group being such that subsequent to the elimination of the leaving group upon coupling reaction, the protective group for a formyl group undergoes cleavage, causing reaction with an aromatic primary amine to form a ballasted Schiff type dye. The novel substantially colorless coupler is capable of highly efficient dye formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Eisaku Katoh, Shuji Kida, Shuichi Sugita
  • Patent number: 5162196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel color coupler for photography and a silver halide color photographic material comprising the same, wherein the color coupler is one of the .beta.,.gamma.-unsaturated nitriles represented by formula (I). The invention provides for a color coupler, particularly a cyan coupler, which forms color images less in subsidiary absorption, good in color reproduction, and excellent in fastness, and a silver halide color photographic material having color images as described above. Further the color coupler can be synthesized from inexpensive raw material at a low cost ##STR1## wherein W represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released when the compound is subjected to a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine derivative, R.sub.1 represents a represents a nitrogen atom, R.sub.2 represents a substituent, if V represents ##STR2## R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent substituent, provided that at least one of R.sub.2 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Sato, Yasuhiro Shimada, Hideaki Naruse
  • Patent number: 5151356
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one water-soluble yellow dye-forming polymer coupler containing a repeating unit derived from at least one monomer in which the polymerization moiety is only in a coupling-off group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Tsumoru Hirano
  • Patent number: 5143823
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material containing yellow couplers corresponding to the following formula is distinguished during chromogenic development by high sensitivity, steep gradation and high color density (even where development is carried out in the absence of benzyl alcohol). The yellow image dyes are highly resistant to moist or dry heat. ##STR1## in which X is a group releasable during the color coupling reaction;R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1-18 alkyl radical;R.sub.2 is a C.sub.1-18 alkyl radical or aralkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunitz
  • Patent number: 5141844
    Abstract: Photographic elements are described containing polymeric dye-forming couplers in which the polymer contains coupler moieties that upon reaction with oxidized color developing agent yield dyes of a least two different hues. In one embodiment a neutral dye is formed. In another embodiment a minor proportion of one coupler moiety is used to modify or current the spectral absorption characteristics of another coupler moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Philip T. S. Lau