Cyanine Sensitizer Patents (Class 430/581)
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Patent number: 6068968Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 1998Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirohiko Tsuzuki, Yoshio Inagaki
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Patent number: 6066443Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 1996Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas Robert Dobles, Richard Lee Parton, Pamela McCue Ferguson, Nona Veith Spitzner, David Alan Stegman, Steven George Link, Kenneth Joseph Reed, Marian Sue Henry
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Patent number: 6066425Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 1998Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wayne T. Ferrar, Louis J. Sorriero, J. Robin Cowdery, David S. Weiss
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Patent number: 6057089Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 1997Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Matsumoto, Takanori Hioki, Tetsuo Nakamura
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Patent number: 6048682Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 1999Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Takanori Hioki
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Patent number: 6048982Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 1997Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventor: Alan S. Waggoner
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Patent number: 6045958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 1, 1999Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akio Arai, Hideki Kina
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Patent number: 6025121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 1998Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert NVInventors: Klaus Sinzger, Stefan Herrmann, Michael Missfeldt
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Patent number: 6010842Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Suga, Masato Taniguchi
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Patent number: 6001521Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichiro Hashizume, Shigenori Ueda, Makoto Aoki
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Patent number: 5989795Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 21, 1992Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Francis John Evans, Arthur Herman Herz
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Patent number: 5976779Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takanori Hioki
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Patent number: 5965346Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 31, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Inagaki, Naoyuki Hanaki, Hirohiko Tsuzuki
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Patent number: 5958665Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tetsuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 5942383Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Mikio Ihama, Tetsuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 5942382Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 1998Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventors: Klaus Sinzger, Stefan Herrmann, Michael Missfeldt
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Patent number: 5928849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 31, 1996Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christopher Edwin Wheeler, Robert Bruce Bayley, Michael Kent Coil, Margaret Jones Helber
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Patent number: 5919613Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 1998Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventor: Michael Missfeldt
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Patent number: 5885764Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kobayashi, Takanori Hioki, Takeshi Suzumoto
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Patent number: 5871897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 1996Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Katoh
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Patent number: 5858639Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventor: Michael Missfeldt
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Patent number: 5853968Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 1996Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Daniel R. English, Steven G. Link, Hans G. Ling
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Patent number: 5853969Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 1997Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Harada, Keiichi Suzuki, Shigeru Ohno, Koji Wariishi, Yoshiharu Yabuki
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Patent number: 5814436Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 1997Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takatoshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 5807666Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 1995Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Anthony Adin, Anne Troxell Wyand
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Patent number: 5763152Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Mikio Ihama
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Patent number: 5747233Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 1997Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Riedel-De Haen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ralph Lonsky, Lutz Uwe Lehmann
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Patent number: 5728517Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 31, 1996Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Roger Anthony Bryant, Myra Toffolon Olm, David Earl Fenton
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Patent number: 5714307Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 1995Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Harada, Keiichi Suzuki, Shigeru Ohno, Koji Wariishi, Yoshiharu Yabuki
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Patent number: 5700608Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lyn Marie Eshelman, David Darrell Miller, David Howard Levy
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Patent number: 5667958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 8, 1996Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda
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Patent number: 5627027Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 1992Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventor: Alan S. Waggoner
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Patent number: 5616456Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 1996Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyohisa Oya, Takahiro Goto
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Patent number: 5614359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 1996Date of Patent: March 25, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, David H. Levy, Paul J. Madigan
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Patent number: 5612175Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 1996Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, Paul J. Madigan, Joseph C. Deaton, David A. Dumont, Michael G. Antoniades, Sharon G. Johnston
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Patent number: 5612176Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 1996Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, David H. Levy, Paul J. Madigan
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Patent number: 5612177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 1996Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David H. Levy, Lyn M. Eshelman, Paul D. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 5589325Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 1996Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Kuno, Shuzo Suga
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Patent number: 5582960Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 1995Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ralph B. Nielsen, Scott F. Odell, John L. Pawlak
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Patent number: 5578440Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda
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Patent number: 5578439Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio Inagaki
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Patent number: 5576154Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Sterling Diagnostic Imaging, Inc.Inventors: Thomas M ussig-Pabst, Alfred W orsching
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Patent number: 5573902Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard L. Daubendiek, Joseph C. Deaton, Donald L. Black, Timothy R. Gersey, Joseph G. Lighthouse, Myra T. Olm, Xin Wen, Robert D. Wilson
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Patent number: 5569587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 1995Date of Patent: October 29, 1996Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventor: Alan S. Waggoner
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Patent number: 5563028Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 17, 1995Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Shigeru Ohno, Kiyoshi Kawai
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Patent number: 5547819Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 1995Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Ohno, Yasushi Hattori
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Patent number: 5547831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 1993Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Takehiko Ohi, Kazunori Ueno, Kenji Kagami, Masao Suzuki, Katsuya Nishino
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Patent number: 5541043Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Inoie, Masao Iwamuro
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Patent number: 5541055Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takehiko Ooi, Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Kazunori Ueno
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Patent number: 5529896Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda