Cyanine Sensitizer Patents (Class 430/581)
  • Patent number: 6068968
    Abstract: A photothermographic material containing photosensitive silver halide grains, in which a cyanine dye containing at least one of an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, and a substituent group having a thioether bond is included, thereby the photographic material exhibiting low fogging, high sensitivity, and improved stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohiko Tsuzuki, Yoshio Inagaki
  • Patent number: 6066443
    Abstract: A photographic element having a silver halide emulsion spectrally sensitized to blue light by a dye of formula (I) to have a maximum blue sensitivity at less than 485 nm. The dye allows the element to have good color reproduction while still providing good speed response despite the shorter blue sensitivity. Formula (I) is: ##STR1## wherein: X and X' each independently represent the atoms necessary to complete a thiazole, benzothiazole, naphthothiazole, oxazole, benzoxazole, naphthoxazole, selenazole, benzoselenazole, naphthoselenazole, imidazole, benzimidazole, or naphtho-imidazole, and X may be further substituted and X' substituted or unsubstituted;Z.sub.1 represents a pyrrole, furan or thiophene containing group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represent substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms; andA represents a counter-ion as needed to balance a charge of the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas Robert Dobles, Richard Lee Parton, Pamela McCue Ferguson, Nona Veith Spitzner, David Alan Stegman, Steven George Link, Kenneth Joseph Reed, Marian Sue Henry
  • Patent number: 6066425
    Abstract: Electrophotographic charge generating elements comprise a solid electrolyte layer having improved image discrimination and layer adhesion. The solid electrolyte layer includes a complex of a silsesquioxane and a charge carrier, and is adhered to an underlying photoconductor layer using a primer layer that includes specific addition polymers. This primer layer has a resistivity of at least 10.sup.10 ohms/square and contains substantially no free ACTIVE moieties as defined herein. Such groups, when present in the primer layer, appear to reduce image discrimination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne T. Ferrar, Louis J. Sorriero, J. Robin Cowdery, David S. Weiss
  • Patent number: 6057089
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, wherein silver halide grains in the emulsion layer are reduction-sensitized and contain at least one compound represented by formula (I) below. ##STR1## In formula (I), R is an alkyl group represented as follows. ##STR2## Each of R.sub.a, R.sub.b, R.sub.c, ad R.sub.d represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or an amino group, each of Q.sub.a, Q.sub.b, Q.sub.c, and Q.sub.d represents a methylene group, and each of r, s, t, and u represents an integer from 1 to 10.Each of L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 represents a methine group. p1 represents 0 or 1. Z.sub.1 represents atom groups required to neutralize a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring. M.sub.1 represents a charge-balancing counterion, and m.sub.1 represents a number from 0 to 10 required to form electric charge of a molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Matsumoto, Takanori Hioki, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6048682
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least 80% of the entire projected area of the silver halide grains contained in said silver halide emulsion layer are occupied by tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more and main planes of {111} faces, said silver halide grains comprise at least 80 mol % of silver chloride, and said tabular silver halide grains are spectrally sensitized with the dye represented by formula (S); ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each represents a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom; and V.sub.1 and V.sub.2 each represents a monovalent substituent, provided that V.sub.1 and V.sub.2 each does not represent an aromatic group and adjacent two or more groups represented by V.sub.1 or V.sub.2 are not bonded to each other to form a condensed ring; I.sub.1 and I.sub.2 each represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 6048982
    Abstract: Cyanine and related dyes, such as merocyanine, styryl and oxonol dyes, are strongly light-absorbing and highly luminescent. Cyanine and related dyes having functional groups make them reactive with amine, hydroxy and sulfhydryl groups are covalently attached to proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, sugars, cells and combinations thereof, and other biological and nonbiological materials, to make these materials fluorescent so that they can be detected. The labeled materials can then be used in assays employing excitation light sources and luminescence detectors. For example, fluorescent cyanine and related dyes can be attached to amine, hydroxy or sulfhydryl groups of avidin and to antibodies and to lectins. Thereupon, avidin labeled with cyanine type dyes can be used to quantify biotinylated materials and antibodies conjugated with cyanine-type dyes can be used to detect and measure antigens and haptens. In addition, cyanine-conjugated lectins can be used to detect specific carbohydrate groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventor: Alan S. Waggoner
  • Patent number: 6045958
    Abstract: A first selenium-arsenic layer of a photoconductor, deposited on a conductive substrate, has a thickness and arsenic concentration effective to preserve an electrically charged surface potential in darkness and to transport carriers generated on exposure to light. The first layer is between 20 to 70 .mu.m thick. A second amorphous selenium-arsenic alloy layer, formed on the first layer, generates carriers on exposure to light. The surface roughness, Rmax., of the conductive substrate is less than or equal to 0.5 .mu.m. The first layer, or both of the photoconductive layers, are doped with iodine. When both layers contain iodine, the iodine content of the second layer is equal to or less than that of the first layer. The thickness of the second layer is between 5 to 30 .mu.m. The arsenic content of the amorphous selenium-arsenic alloy of the second layer is equal to or greater than that in the first layer. After deposition of the first and second layers, the photoconductor is heat treated at between 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Arai, Hideki Kina
  • Patent number: 6025121
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material contains at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is spectrally sensitized with a monomethine cyanine dye of the formula I ##STR1## in which: R.sup.1 denotes a benzothiophene radical which is coupled by way of the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6- or 7-position thereof to the benzo ring of the benzothiazole group,R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 (the same or different) denote sulphoalkyl, carboxyalkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --SO.sub.2 --NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --SO.sub.2 --NH--CO-alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --CO--NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl or --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --CO--NH--CO-alkyl and (n=1-6);R.sup.4 to R.sup.6 (the same or different) denote hydrogen, halogen, --CN, --CF.sub.3, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl or a heterocyclic group;orR.sup.5 together with R.sup.4 or R.sup.6 denotes the remainder which is necessary to complete an optionally substituted condensed-on benzene or naphthalene ring;M denotes a cation necessary to balance the charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert NV
    Inventors: Klaus Sinzger, Stefan Herrmann, Michael Missfeldt
  • Patent number: 6010842
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion in the emulsion layer contains a compound represented by formula (I) below and a compound represented by formula (II) below. ##STR1## In formula (I), each of R.sub.1 to R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group. ##STR2## In formula (II), R represents a specific alkyl group, each of L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 represents a methine group, p.sub.1 represents 0 or 1, Z.sub.1 represents atoms required to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, M.sub.1 represents a charge-balancing counter ion, m.sub.1 represents a number from 0 to 10 required to neutralize electric charge of a molecule, and Q represents a methine group or a polymethine group substituted by a heterocyclic group or an aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Suga, Masato Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6001521
    Abstract: For providing an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can always maintain good images without occurrence of fusion of toner, independent of the circumstances and the combination of urging pressure of a cleaner, process speed, components contained in toner, etc. and that can always maintain good images of high resolution and even density without occurrence of uneven shaving against a cleaning system or toner, the outermost surface thereof is comprised of a non-monocrystalline carbon film comprising hydrogen and having a dynamic hardness not less than 300 kgf/mm.sup.2 nor more than 1300 kgf/mm.sup.2 measured using a diamond stylus of a triangular pyramid having a tip of a radius not more than 0.1 .mu.m and an edge-to-edge angle of 115.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichiro Hashizume, Shigenori Ueda, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 5989795
    Abstract: This invention relates to a photographic recording material comprising a support and a photosensitive chemically sensitized silver halide emulsion layer, containing a sensitizing dye selected from the group consisting of oxonal dyes, merocyanine dyes, and cyanine dyes having a net negative charge, and which has a pH value between about 2 to about 5 and a pAg value between about 1 to about 4.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Francis John Evans, Arthur Herman Herz
  • Patent number: 5976779
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein silver halide grains of said emulsion layer are reduction sensitized and contain at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a divalent linking group having at least one atom other than a carbon atom; Z.sub.1 represents an atomic group necessary for forming a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group; p.sub.1 represents 0 or 1; M.sub.1 represents a counter ion for balancing a charge; m.sub.1 represents a number of from 0 to 10 necessary for neutralizing a charge in the molecule; and Q represents a group necessary to form a methine dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 5965346
    Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having on at least one surface thereof a light-sensitive silver halide grain, an organic salt, a reducing agent for silver ion and a binder, wherein the heat-developable light-sensitive material contains a methine dye represented by formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Inagaki, Naoyuki Hanaki, Hirohiko Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 5958665
    Abstract: A sultone compound represented by formula (I) or (I'), a quaternary salt compound represented by formula (II) or (II'), a methine compound represented by formula (III) or (III'), production processes thereof and a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a quaternary salt compound represented by formula (II) or (II') and/or a methine compound represented by formula (III) or (III') are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tetsuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5942383
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the silver halide grains in at least one of the emulsion layers are subjected to reduction sensitization, and at least one of the emulsion layers contains at least one compound represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a sulfonylalkenyl group; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represent a methine group; p.sub.1 is 0 or 1; Z.sub.1 represents a group of atoms required to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycle; M.sub.1 represents a counter ion for balance of a charge; m.sub.1 is a number of from 0 to 10 required to neutralize a charge of the molecule; and Q represents a methine or polymethine group substituted with a heterocyclic or aromatic group. The material has high sensitivity, low fog, and excellent storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Mikio Ihama, Tetsuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5942382
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material contains at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is spectrally sensitized with a monomethine cyanine dye of the formula I in which:R.sup.1 denotes a benzothiophene radical which is coupled by way of the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6- or 7-position thereof to the benzo ring of the benzothiazole group,R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 (the same or different) denote sulphoalkyl, carboxyalkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --SO .sub.2 --NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --SO.sub.2 --NH--CO-alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --CO--NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl or --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --CO--NH--CO-alkyl (n=1-6);R.sup.4 to R.sup.6 (the same or different) denote hydrogen, halogen, --CN, --CF.sub.3, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl or a heterocyclic group;orR.sup.5 together with R.sup.4 or R.sup.6 denotes the remainder which is necessary to complete an optionally substituted condensed-on benzene or naphthalene ring;M denotes a cation necessary to balance the charge.The recording material has increased blue sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Klaus Sinzger, Stefan Herrmann, Michael Missfeldt
  • Patent number: 5928849
    Abstract: A black and white photographic element contains a filter dye of Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each R.sup.1 is independently substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, cyano, hydroxy, carboxy, substituted or unsubstituted amido, or substituted or unsubstituted sulfonamido;n is 1-4;R.sup.2 is H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or amido;each of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is independently hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; andM is a cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Christopher Edwin Wheeler, Robert Bruce Bayley, Michael Kent Coil, Margaret Jones Helber
  • Patent number: 5919613
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material contains at least one silver halide emulsion layer which is spectrally sensitized with a monomethinecyanine dye of the following general formula I in whichR.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 (identical or different) mean: H, halogen, alkyl, methoxy, aryl, 1-pyrrolyl, 2-pyrrolyl, 3-pyrrolyl, 2-furanyl, 2-thienyl, 3-thienyl, 1-indolyl, N-carbazolyl or N-isoindolyl, or R.sup.4, together with R.sup.3 or R.sup.5, means the residue necessary to complete an optionally substituted fused benzene ring or R.sup.4, together with R.sup.3, means the residue necessary to complete an optionally substituted fused naphthalene ring system;R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 (identical or different) mean: alkyl, sulphoalkyl, carboxyalkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --SO.sub.2 --NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl, --(CH.sub.2 ).sub.n --SO.sub.2 --NH--CO-alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --CO--NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --CO--NH--CO-alkyl (n=1-6);X means --O--, --S--, --Se--, --NR.sup.8 --(R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventor: Michael Missfeldt
  • Patent number: 5885764
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed containing at least one methine compound represented by formula (I) or (III). Further disclosed is the methine compound represented by formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Kobayashi, Takanori Hioki, Takeshi Suzumoto
  • Patent number: 5871897
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which contains a connected-dye compound having a fixed configuration in which one cyanine dye plane is in parallel with and lies over the other so that the connected-dye compound always shows an absorption assignable to a cyanine dye aggregate thereof. The silver halide photographic material has excellent storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Katoh
  • Patent number: 5858639
    Abstract: A photographic recording material with at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide of which is spectrally sensitised with at least one cyanine dye having the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X means O, S, Se, NR.sub.3 or --CH.dbd.CH--,R means alkyl,n means 1, 3, 5, 7R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 mean alkyl, arylalkyl, sulphoalkyl, carboxyalkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.m --SO.sub.2 --NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.m --SO.sub.2 --NH--CO-alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.m --CO--NH--SO.sub.2 -alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventor: Michael Missfeldt
  • Patent number: 5853968
    Abstract: The invention provides a color negative photographic element comprising a transparent support bearing at least two light sensitive silver halide emulsion layers sensitive to blue light, at least two such layers sensitive to green light, and at least two such layers sensitive to red light, wherein at least one of the red sensitive emulsion layers is spectrally sensitized with both a particular first carbocyanine dye (I) which contains both a thiazole and an oxazole ring and a particular second carbocyanine dye (II) which contains two thiazole rings.The element of the invention is advantageous in allowing an increased efficiency of silver removal during the bleaching step of the development process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. English, Steven G. Link, Hans G. Ling
  • Patent number: 5853969
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer. The silver halide emulsion layer or the hydrophilic colloidal layer contains a colorant having the absorption maximum wavelength within the infrared region of 700 to 1,100 nm. The colorant is in the form of solid particles dispersed in the silver halide emulsion layer or in the hydrophilic colloidal layer. The solid particles cannot substantially be removed by a processing solution of the silver halide photographic material. An image forming process employing the silver halide photographic material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Harada, Keiichi Suzuki, Shigeru Ohno, Koji Wariishi, Yoshiharu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 5814436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing method which allows a silver halide color photographic material to be sufficiently desilvered and minimizes the rise in the formation of bleaching fog or stain even when it is processed in a short period of time. A novel process for the processing of a silver halide color photographic material comprising at least silver halide emulsion layer on a support which comprises subjecting the silver halide color photographic material to color development, and then processing the silver halide color photographic material with a processing solution having a bleaching capacity is provided, characterized in that said emulsion layer comprises tabular silver halide grains having ?100! major faces and a silver chloride content of 50 to 100 mol % and said processing solution having a bleaching capacity contains at least one ferric complex salt of a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5807666
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic element comprising an infrared light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains that exhibit low cubicity and are sensitized to a maximum absorption over 700 nm with a carbocyanine dye free of water soluble groups, wherein said layer additionally comprises a pyrimidino- or triazino-stilbene compound containing at least 6 sulfonic acid or sulfonate substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Anthony Adin, Anne Troxell Wyand
  • Patent number: 5763152
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material comprises a substrate provided thereon with at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one compound represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Ra and Rb each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having at least two carbon atoms or an aryl or heterocyclic group, provided that Ra and Rb do not simultaneously represent hydrogen atoms; La and Lb each represents a methylene group; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group; p.sub.1 represents 0 or 1; Z.sub.1 represents an atomic group required for forming a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen atom-containing heterocyclic ring; M.sub.1 represents a counterion required for balancing the electrical charge; m.sub.1 represents a numerical value of not less than 0 required for neutralizing the molecule; and Q represents a methine or polymethine group required for forming a methine dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Mikio Ihama
  • Patent number: 5747233
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of dyestuffs of the general formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 and M.sup..sym. are as defined in claim 1, as infrared-absorbing agents in hydrophilic colloidal layers, for example in recording materials or for detection purposes, recording materials, for example photographic recording materials, which comprise such dyestuffs in hydrophilic colloidal layers, and new dyestuffs of the general formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Riedel-De Haen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralph Lonsky, Lutz Uwe Lehmann
  • Patent number: 5728517
    Abstract: Tabular grain emulsions of enhanced photographic sensitivity are disclosed in which the tabular grains contain a maximum surface iodide concentration along their edges and a lower surface iodide concentration within their corners than elsewhere along their edges. The grains contain a dopant capable of providing shallow electron trapping sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Bryant, Myra Toffolon Olm, David Earl Fenton
  • Patent number: 5714307
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer. The silver halide emulsion layer or the hydrophilic colloidal layer contains a colorant having the absorption maximum wavelength within the infrared region of 700 to 1,100 nm. The colorant is in the form of solid particles dispersed in the silver halide emulsion layer or in the hydrophilic colloidal layer. The solid particles cannot substantially be removed by a processing solution of the silver halide photographic material. An image forming process employing the silver halide photographic material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Harada, Keiichi Suzuki, Shigeru Ohno, Koji Wariishi, Yoshiharu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 5700608
    Abstract: A photographic element is described which comprises a silver halide emulsion having incorporated therein a latent image forming unit, said unit being comprised of an agglomeration of silver halide in conductive contact with a light absorbing center, wherein the center is comprised of:(i) an amorphous or liquid crystalline spectral sensitizing dye; or(ii) a plurality of spectral sensitizing dye crystals.Also described is a process for forming a silver halide emulsion and the emulsion prepared by such process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn Marie Eshelman, David Darrell Miller, David Howard Levy
  • Patent number: 5667958
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity, reduced in fog and excellent in storage stability is described, which comprises a support having thereon at least one constituent layer containing at least one hydrazone compound having a methine dye residue or an adsorbing group to silver halide through a covalent bond or containing at least one metallocene compound having a methine dye residue through a covalent bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5627027
    Abstract: Cyanine and related dyes, are strongly light absorbing and highly luminescent. These dyes are covalently attached to proteins and other biological and nonbiological materials to make these materials fluorescent so that they can be detected. The labeled materials can then be used in assays employing excitation light sources and luminescence detectors. Avidin labeled with cyanine type dyes can be used to quantify biotinylated materials and antibodies conjugated with cyanine-type dyes can be used to detect and measure antigens and haptens. In addition, cyanine-conjugated lectins can be used to detect specific carbohydrate groups. Also, cyanine-conjugated fragments of DNA or RNA can be used to identify the presence of complementary nucleotide sequences in DNA or RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventor: Alan S. Waggoner
  • Patent number: 5616456
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a methine compound containing a thiohydantoin ring substituted by a pyrazinyl group at the 3-position, which has high sensitivity, high reproducibility, good storage stability, and leaves hardly color on unexposed areas after being processed. Example General formula: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of atoms necessary to form a five- or six-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.3 represents a pyrazinyl group; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group; and n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Oya, Takahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 5614359
    Abstract: Spectrally sensitized tabular grain emulsions are disclosed exhibiting (1) increased speeds and (2) contrasts and speed-granularity relationships superior to those of conventional emulsions of the same average grain sizes. The tabular grains have {111} major faces, contain greater than 80 mole percent bromide, based on silver, and are substantially free of iodide, exhibit an average aspect ratio of greater than 50 and an average equivalent circular diameter of >10 micrometers, account for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, and have latent image forming chemical sensitization sites on their surfaces including epitaxially deposited silver halide protrusions of a face centered cubic rock salt crystal lattice structure forming epitaxial junctions with the tabular grains. The protrusions are restricted to those portions of the tabular grains (a) located nearest peripheral edges of and (b) accounting for less than 50 percent of the {111} major faces of the tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, David H. Levy, Paul J. Madigan
  • Patent number: 5612175
    Abstract: A radiation-sensitive spectrally sensitized tabular grain emulsion is disclosed which exhibits improved speed and contrast. The tabular grains have {111} major faces, contain greater than 70 mole percent bromide and up to 10 mole percent iodide, based on silver, account for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, and have an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 3.5 .mu.m. The tabular grains have latent image forming chemical sensitization sites on their surfaces including epitaxially deposited silver halide protrusions of a face centered cubic rock salt crystal lattice structure forming epitaxial junctions with the tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, Paul J. Madigan, Joseph C. Deaton, David A. Dumont, Michael G. Antoniades, Sharon G. Johnston
  • Patent number: 5612176
    Abstract: Spectrally sensitized tabular grain emulsions are disclosed exhibiting increased speeds and speed-granularity relationships superior to those of conventional emulsions of the same average grain sizes. The tabular grains have {111} major faces, contain greater than 70 mole percent bromide and from 0.25 to 10 mole percent iodide, based on silver, exhibit an average aspect ratio of greater than 50 and an average equivalent circular diameter of >10 micrometers, account for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, and have latent image forming chemical sensitization sites on their surfaces including epitaxially deposited silver halide protrusions of a face centered cubic rock salt crystal lattice structure forming epitaxial junctions with the tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, David H. Levy, Paul J. Madigan
  • Patent number: 5612177
    Abstract: A radiation-sensitive high bromide {111} tabular grain emulsion is disclosed in which at least 90 percent of silver halide epitaxy of an isomorphic face centered cubic crystal lattice structure containing at least 1 mole percent iodide is deposited on the {111} major faces in the form of monocrystalline terraces. Each epitaxial terrace is grown from a nucleation site along an edge of a {111} major face inwardly, with terraces overlying less than 25 percent of the {111} major faces. Surprisingly, these emulsions exhibit higher photographic speeds than those produced by growing silver halide epitaxy outwardly as protrusions from the corners or edges of the tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David H. Levy, Lyn M. Eshelman, Paul D. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 5589325
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion is spectrally sensitized with at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by the following formulae (1) and (2) and contains a compound represented by the following formula (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kuno, Shuzo Suga
  • Patent number: 5582960
    Abstract: An improved image display material comprising high chloride silver halide emulsions having greater than 90 mole % silver chloride, where the material comprises a yellow dye-forming layer sensitive to blue light comprising a high chloride silver halide emusion with a peak spectral sensitivity to blue light less than about 475 nm, preferably from about 440-475 nm, and a coupler dispersion comprising a yellow dye-forming coupler and a water-insoluble polymer. Photographic image display materials with both short-blue sensitivity and a polymer dispersion in the yellow dye-forming blue-sensitive layer show a synergistic improvement in color reproduction in accordance with the invention, providing for color photographic prints with less color error than seen for materials comprising only one of the components. The improvement is most notable for yellow and green colored areas of a color print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ralph B. Nielsen, Scott F. Odell, John L. Pawlak
  • Patent number: 5578440
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity, reduced in fog and excellent in storage stability is described, which comprises a support having thereon at least one constituent layer containing at least one hydrazone compound having a methine dye residue or an adsorbing group to silver halide through a covalent bond or containing at least one metallocene compound having a methine dye residue through a covalent bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5578439
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains the methine compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 represents a nonmetal atomic group necessary for completing a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring which may be condensed; R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic or aromatic group which may be substituted; G.sup.1 represents a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an aliphatic or aromatic primary amino group, a hydroxyamino group, an alkoxyamino group, an acylamino group, or an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonamido group; G.sup.2 is a group substituted at the position adjacent to G and is a group represented by T.sup.2 --C(.dbd.T.sup.1)--; .dbd.T.sup.1 represents .dbd.O, .dbd.NH, .dbd.NOH, an alkoxyimino group, an aliphatic or aromatic imino group, an acylimino group, or an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonylimino group; T.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Inagaki
  • Patent number: 5576154
    Abstract: The invention involves a process for making photographic recording materials for radiography having comparable sensitivity and high visual resolution in the resulting x-ray images, whether used with green-emitting or blue-emitting intensifying screens. The invention also describes a process for making x-ray images by the use of such recording materials. The invention regulates the ratio of the silver halide coating's blue to green sensitivity by the addition of an aliphatic 2-amino-1-thio compound of Formula I: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 =alkyl of 1 to 5 carbons, aryl, alkylacyl of 1 to 5 carbons, H or arylacyl;R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 =H, alkyl of 1 to 4 carbons or COR.sup.7 ;R.sup.6 =H or alkyl of 1 to 5 carbons,R.sup.7 =OH, NHR.sup.8, or O-R.sup.10 where R.sup.10 is an alkyl of 1 to 5 carbons;R8, R9=H or alkyl of 1 to 5 carbons;R.sup.1 and R.sup.6 taken together represent one to three methylene groups bridging the nitrogen and the sulfur; andR.sup.1 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Sterling Diagnostic Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M ussig-Pabst, Alfred W orsching
  • Patent number: 5573902
    Abstract: A chemically and spectrally sensitized tabular grain emulsion is disclosed including tabular grains (a) having major faces, (b) containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide and at least 0.25 mole percent iodide, based on silver, (c) accounting for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, (d) exhibiting an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m, and (f) exhibiting an average thickness in the range of from less than 0.3 .mu.m to at least 0.07 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Daubendiek, Joseph C. Deaton, Donald L. Black, Timothy R. Gersey, Joseph G. Lighthouse, Myra T. Olm, Xin Wen, Robert D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 5569587
    Abstract: A method for detecting a component of an aqueous liquid comprising adding to the liquid a luminescent dye selected from the group consisting of cyanine, merocyanine and styryl dyes containing at least one sulfonic acid or sulfonate group attached to an aromatic nucleus and reacting the dye with the component. The labeled component is then detected by an optical detection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventor: Alan S. Waggoner
  • Patent number: 5563028
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer or the hydrophilic colloidal layer contains a dye represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## in which A.sup.1 is an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group or a substituted aryl group; each of Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 is hydrogen, an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group, or Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 are combined with each other to form a five or six-membered heterocyclic ring; Q.sup.3 is hydrogen, a halogen atom, carboxyl, hydroxyl, methyl or methoxy; each of M.sup.1 and M.sup.2 is hydrogen, a metal atom or an atomic group that forms a monovalent cation; and p is 2, 3 or 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Shigeru Ohno, Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5547819
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material containing particular cyanine dye polymer(s) comprising at least one repeating unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a chlorine atom; L.sup.1 represents --CON(R.sup.2)-- (where R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a substituted alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms), --COO--, --NHCO--, --OCO--, --C.sub.6 H.sub.2 (R.sup.3)(R.sup.4)COO-- (where R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted acyloxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group; and C.sub.6 H.sub.2 represents a benzene ring with four substituents), or --C.sub.6 H.sub.2 (R.sup.3)(R.sup.4)CON(R.sup.2)-- (where R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and C.sub.6 H.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ohno, Yasushi Hattori
  • Patent number: 5547831
    Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive material has a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming component. The photosensitive layer is incorporated with a compound selected from the compounds (i), (ii) and (iii).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Takehiko Ohi, Kazunori Ueno, Kenji Kagami, Masao Suzuki, Katsuya Nishino
  • Patent number: 5541043
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comrising a support provided thereon light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers including a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a non-image forming layer which is located farther from the support than the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and adjacent to one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein a silver halide emulsion contained in the layer adjacent to the non-image forming layer is spectrally sensitized by adding a water-insoluble sensitizing dye in the form of solid particles dispersed in an aqueous medium; and the non-image forming layer contains a substantially light-insensitive silver halide fine grain emulsion having an average grain size of not more than 0.05 .mu.m and an average iodide content of 0.5 to 3.0 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoie, Masao Iwamuro
  • Patent number: 5541055
    Abstract: A heat developing photosensitive material of the present invention has, on a substrate, a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent, a cyanine dye and a cyclic carbonyl compound.In an image forming method of the present invention, an image is exposed on the heat developing photosensitive material and then the exposed photosensitive material is heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Ooi, Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Kazunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 5529896
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the layer contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I) and at least one compound represented by the following formula (X): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are the same or different and each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each may be combined with each other to form a ring; ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.11 represents a sulfur atom, a selenium atom or a substituted nitrogen atom represented by ##STR3## in which R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda