Heterocyclic Coupler Patents (Class 430/558)
  • Patent number: 5306604
    Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials are disclosed comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a coupler having in a non-coupling position a silyl substituent represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.4 individually are unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, R.sub.5 is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group which can be bonded to a non-coupling position of a second coupler moiety, and n=0, 1 or 2. In a preferred embodiment, the coupler is a photographic image dye-forming coupler. Processes for developing images in the photographic materials are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5306610
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic coupler represented by the formula 1: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and Y each represent hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring, and said 5- to 7-membered ring may have a substituent(s); and X represents hydrogen atom or a substituent which is eliminatable by the reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent, which is used for a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material and a heat-processable light-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ikesu, Hiroshi Kita, Yutaka Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5302503
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material includes a support and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer formed on the support. The hydrophilic layer contains a coupler compound which is represented by formula (I) below and has a high dye formation rate and a high color forming density. This silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material can achieve an improved sharpness and a high sensitivity:A--(SO.sub.2 NHCONR.sup.1 R.sup.2).sub.n Formula (I)(wherein A represents a coupler moiety, each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, and n represents an integer of 1 or more, if n being an integer of 2 or more, respective R.sup.1 's and R.sup.2 's being able to be the same or different, and A and R.sup.1, A and R.sup.2, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 being able to combine to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Keiji Mihayashi, Takayoshi Kamio
  • Patent number: 5302504
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material which comprises a coupler is disclosed. The coupler is represented by a formula I or II, ##STR1## The meaning of each symbol is defined in the specification. The color photographic material of the invention gives a magenta image excellent in preserving stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Kida, Hidenubu Ohya
  • Patent number: 5302496
    Abstract: Novel pyrazoloazole dye-forming couplers contain on the azole ring a group containing a carbon atom bonded directly to the azole ring and wherein this carbon atom is bonded directly to a nitrogen atom in the group. Such couplers provide advantageous bathochromic hue shift in dyes formed from the couplers. These couplers are useful in photographic silver halide materials and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert F. Romanet, Teh-Hsuan Chen
  • Patent number: 5302502
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided which is excellent in color reproduction and color image fastness, and shows only small variations in gradation due to fluctuaion in treatment conditions such as treatment composition, time, and temperature. The present silver halide color photographic material has a pyrazoloazole coupler and silver halide grains consisting of regular crystals with a twin content of 5% or less, said silver halide grains being represented by the formula:AgCl.sub.x Br.sub.y I.sub.l-x-ywherein x and y satisfy the relationships 0.ltoreq.x<1, 0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1, and 0.ltoreq.l-x-y.ltoreq.0.02.In preferred embodiments of the present invention, said pyrazoloazole coupler is represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Shibata
  • Patent number: 5300407
    Abstract: An image forming method is disclosed which comprises developing a silver halide photographic material with a developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine developing agent in the presence of an imidazo[1,2-b]pyrazole type coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group or an amino group; R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent.The magenta coupler represented by general formula (I) is excellent in color reproducibility, sensitivity and color density.A silver halide color photographic material containing the magenta coupler is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koshin Matsuoka, Tadahisa Sato
  • 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: 5298377
    Abstract: A photographic element is described havinga photographic support;a green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on the photographic support and having a magenta dye-forming coupler, anda filter layer on the photographic support and associated with the green sensitive layer, wherein the magenta dye-forming coupler is a 2-equivalent magenta dye-forming coupler, and the filter layer includes a filter dye molecule having the formula:D.dbd.CH--M (I)wherein D is a group which, with the remainder of the molecule, forms a dye having an absorption maximum in the blue or green region of the visible spectrum, andM is a five-membered or six-membered unsaturated heterocyclic ring, which may be fused with another five-membered or six-membered ring system, and which is unsubstituted or substituted with a lower alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an electron withdrawing group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Arlyce T. Bowne
  • 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: 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: 5292630
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing one or more imidazotriazole cyan couplers each having an electron attracting group with a .sigma.p of 0.35 or more in at least one layer on the support. The material provides a cyan color image having a sharp light absorption characteristic absorbing light having a relatively long wavelength falling within a narrow wavelength range. The imidazotriazole cyan coupler is of the following structural formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R.sub.2 represents an electron attracting group having a Hammett's constant value .sigma.p of 0.35 or ore; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group released by coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; and R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 may also be a divalent group forming a dimer or higher polymer, or they each may be bonded to a polymer chain to form a homopolymer or copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimada, Kozo Sato
  • 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: 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: 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: 5273864
    Abstract: This invention provides a processing method for an exposed silver halide color photographic material, which enables cut-down of the times required for bleaching-and-fixing and for washing and yet affords a stable image excellent in color reproduction. The processing method of this invention is characterized in that the silver halide color photographic material is developed with a color developing solution substantially free of benzyl alcohol, and that the thus developed photographic material is subjected to bleaching-and-fixing for a time of not more than 70 seconds and then subjected to washing for a time of not more than 70 seconds. Another important aspect of the invention resides in the use of a magenta coupler in the processing method with a merit that a stable colored image having excellent hue is developed without the fear of formation of stains although the times for the bleaching-and-fixing and for the washing are shortened remarkedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Ishikawa, Nobuo Sakai, Minoru Sakai
  • Patent number: 5272053
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer provided on the support, and the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a hydrogen peroxide-treated gelatin in a ratio of not lower than 20% by weight to the total amount of gelatin contained in the silver halide emulsion layer and silver halide grains composed of silver chlorobromide having a silver chloride content of not lower than 90 mol %. The light-sensitive material is improved in the stability of emulsion coating solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Shigeo Tanaka, Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 5272051
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support thereon having at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, in which the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one cyan coupler of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a substituent;EWG represents an electron-attracting substituent which does not substantially split off from the formula on reaction of the coupler with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; EWG' represents an electron-attracting substituent having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma..sub.p of 0.3 or more, other than a perfluoroalkyl group; andW represents a hydrogen atom or a releasable group which splits off on reaction of the coupler with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimada, Yoshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 5272049
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least two green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers having different sensitivities on a support. The layer having the lowest sensitivity of the green-sensitive layers contains at least one type of coupler represented by Formula (M), and the layer having the highest sensitivity of the green-sensitive layers contains at least on type of coupler represented by Formula (N), Formula (I) or Formula (II), ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Z represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form a 5-membered azole ring containing two to four nitrogen atoms, said azole ring being able to have a substituent including a condensed ring, and X represents a group except for a hydrogen atom, which can split off during a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of a developing agent. Formula (N) represents a compound represented by Formula (M) in which the split-off group X is replaced by a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Tadahisa Sato
  • 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: 5270153
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one 1H-pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,2,4]triazole cyan coupler represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is an electron withdrawing group which has a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p value of 0.15 or more; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded to form a ring; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of being released upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; said coupler may form a bis-compound or or a polymer at R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Tadahisa Sato, Kozo Sato, Yoshio Ishii
  • 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: 5262288
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprises a support, having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein a coupler represented by formula (I) shown below is included in at least one layer of the photosensitive material, and a coupler represented by formula (M) shown below is included in at least one layer of the photosensitive material: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aryl group having substituents the sum of whose Hammett's rule substituent .sigma. constants is at least 0.2, and R.sub.2 represents an aryl group having substituents the sum of whose Hammett's rule substituent .sigma. constants is at least 0.75; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Yuki Mizukawa
  • Patent number: 5262293
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler represented by the following formula I or II; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a group having a Hammet's .sigma.p value of 0 or more; X1 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting off upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; Y.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and Z.sub.1 is a group of non- metal atoms necessary for forming an aromatic six-member heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.2 and Y.sub.2 are independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting off upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; and Z.sub.2 is a group of non-metal atoms necessary for forming an aromatic five-member heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ikesu, Hiroshi Kita, Yutaka Kaneko
  • 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: 5260181
    Abstract: There is disclosed a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) and a silver color photographic material containing same. ##STR1## wherein EWG represents an electron-attractive group having a Hammett substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of 0.30 or more, R represents a substituent, l represents an integer of 0 to 2, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine derivative, R and EWG may bond together to form a ring, and when l is 2, two Rs may be the same or different or may bond together to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Sato, Koshin Matsuoka, Yoshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 5260182
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein a yellow dye forming coupler which is represented by formula (1) indicated below and/or a yellow dye forming coupler which can be represented by formula (2) indicated below are included in said silver halide emulsion layer, and the size distribution of the silver halide grains in said silver halide emulsion layer is mono-disperse: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represent an alkyl gorup, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, X.sub.3 represents an organic residual group which, together with >N--, forms a nitrogen containing heterocyclic group, Y represent an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group which is released when the coupler represented by formulae (1) and (2) reacts with the oxidized form of the developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagaoka, Akira Ogawa
  • 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: 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: 5256529
    Abstract: A magenta dye-forming pyrazolotriazole coupler solubilized by one or two sulfonamido groups results in a coupler having increased coupling activity, low fog and good dispersability. The couplers are useful in photographic elements and react with oxidized silver halide to form dyes, and/or to release photographically useful groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert F. Romanet, Hans G. Ling, David Hoke
  • Patent number: 5256527
    Abstract: The invention provides stable dispersions of couplers and methods of their formation. The stable dispersions are formed by the use of a nonionic water soluble polymer in combination with an anionic surfactant having a sulfate or sulfonate head group and a hydrophobic group of 8 to 20 carbons. The preferred nonionic water soluble polymers are polyethyleneoxide and polyvinylpyrrolidene. It is preferred that the dispersions have a pH of between about 5 and 5.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Krishnan Chari, James T. Beck
  • Patent number: 5256526
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one 1H-pyrrolo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazole cyan coupler represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an electron withdrawing group having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p value of 0.20 or more; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded to form a ring; the sum of a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p value of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 0.65 or more; R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of being released upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; said coupler may be in a form of a bis-compound or a polymer formed at R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Tadahisa Sato, Kozo Sato, Yoshio Ishii, Hideaki Naruse, Yasuhiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 5254451
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a magenta represented by Formula I-3 or I-4 is disclosed. ##STR1## R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 represent each a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off;Y represents a group consisting of non-metal atoms necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring;m is 1 or 2; andn is 0 to 4.The invention provides a silver halide color photographic light sensitive material having exellent color reproducibility and color producibility, in which material stability against light of magenta dye image is remarbly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kita, Yutaka Kaneko, Noboru Mizukura, Toru Kubota
  • Patent number: 5254446
    Abstract: A silver halide color negative photosensitive material comprises at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler formed on a transparent support, wherein it contains 4.times.10.sup.-4 to 3 g, per m.sup.2 of the support, of a ferromagnetic fine powder and that the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains a coupler such as ##STR1## The photosensitive material makes it possible to shorten a printing time and has an excellent sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinpei Ikenoue, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Seiji Ichijima
  • Patent number: 5250400
    Abstract: Novel pyrazolotriazole couplers containing a ballast group of formula (I): ##STR1## are useful in photographic materials and processes. The couplers exhibit increased coupling activity, and provide formation of dyes having improved maximum magenta image dye density, contrast, and development speed when employed in color photographic materials and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sundaram Krishnamurthy, Ping-Wah Tang, Stanley W. Cowan
  • Patent number: 5246819
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a method for continuously processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent is disclosed. The silver halide color photographic material at least one of the layers of which contains a silver halide emulsion of a high chloride comprising 80 mol % or over of silver chloride is processed, after exposure to light, with the replenishing amount of the color developer being 20 to 120 ml per m.sup.2 of the silver halide photographic material. The silver halide photographic material contains at least one of pyrazoloazole magenta couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Yoshida, Takatoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5242789
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler represented by the following formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2 or R'.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group; and X represents a coupling split-off group liked through a nitrogen or a sulfur atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahisa Sato, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 5242783
    Abstract: A novel blocked photographically useful compound element and process are based on a new blocking group that comprises a beta-ketocarbonyl group that is part of a 5- to 7-member heterocyclic ring containing a hetero-atom not adjacent to the beta-ketocarbonyl group. Such a blocked photographically useful compound provides a photographic material and process enabling more rapid release of the photographically useful group upon processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John M. Buchanan, Gary S. Proehl
  • Patent number: 5242788
    Abstract: Color photographs of which the colored image has improved storage stability, which have a good overall cyan, magenta and yellow image color balance even after long term storage, and with which, moreover, little staining of the white base occurs, are obtained by means of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Tadahisa Sato
  • Patent number: 5240826
    Abstract: A novel silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer coated on at least one side of a support, wherein said photographic emulsion layer comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and said photographic emulsion or other layer(s) comprises a substantially light-insensitive, unfogged silver halide fine grain emulsion, with a heterocyclic mercapto compound represented by the following general formula (I) being adsorbed on the fine grains in said emulsion: general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X represents --O--, --NH--, or --S--; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group having up to 13 carbon atoms, such alkyl or aryl being bonded directly or through a divalent linkage group to the aromatic nucleus; X.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyasaka, Hideo Ikeda, Shigeru Ohno
  • 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: 5236819
    Abstract: A photographic material having a support and a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which contains a magenta coupler represented by Formula M-I, a compound represented by Formula A and a compound represented by Formula B: ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kadokura, Katsumasa Yamazaki, Shigeto Hirabayashi
  • 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: 5234805
    Abstract: Pyrazolotriazole couplers having a ballast-containing group of the formula (I) attached to the pyrazolotriazole ring group ##STR1## wherein: R, R.sup.2, R.sup.a and R.sup.b represent hydrogen or a substituent;L is a divalent linking group connecting the ballast containing group to the pyrazolotriazole ring;L' is a linking group connecting the --BD group to the phenylene ring;n is 0 or 1;B represents --N(R.sup.c)--SO.sub.2 --, wherein R.sup.c represents hydrogen or a substituent; andD represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl are useful in silver halide photographic materials and processes. The couplers exhibit increased coupling efficiency, and provide formation of dyes having improved maximum magenta image dye density when employed in color photographic materials and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Wah Tang, Sundaram Krishnamurthy, Stanley W. Cowan
  • Patent number: 5232821
    Abstract: Photographic coupler compositions comprise (a) a magenta dye-forming coupler compound, and (b) a sulfoxide compound or a sulfone compound in an amount sufficient to improve the light stability of a magenta dye formed from the magenta dye-forming coupler compound. The sulfoxide compound is of the formula ##STR1## and the sulfone compound is of the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Edward Schofield
  • Patent number: 5229261
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material, which comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer, contains a pyrazoloazole type coupler represented by the following general formula (II) in the emulsion layer, to ensure high sensitivity and high gamma without attended by increase in fog: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group releasable upon coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; or --NH--; Zb and Zc also represent a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--, wherein the substituent of at least either of Zb and Zc is a tertiary alkyl group represented by ##STR2## provided that when Zc is the above-described substituted methine group having the tertiary alkyl group as a substituent, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ogawa, Nobuo Furutachi
  • 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: 5227287
    Abstract: There is disclosed a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) and a silver halide color photographic material containing same. ##STR1## wherein EWG represents an electron-attractive group having a Hammett substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of 0.30 or more, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a substituent, l represents an integer of 0 or 1, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine derivative, and Y represents a hydroxyl group or a sulfonamido group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Sato, Yoshio Ishii