Anti-ultraviolet Fading Patents (Class 430/931)
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Patent number: 7189501Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material that has, on a support, at least one yellow color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one cyan color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one specific yellow or magenta dye-forming coupler and at least one compound represented by formula (Ph) are contained in the same layer: wherein Rb1 represents a specific functional group; and Rb2 to Rb5 each independently represent a hydrogen or halogen atom, or a specific functional group.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Nobuo Seto, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7101659Abstract: A photographic element is described comprising a support bearing at least one blue light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an ultraviolet filter layer above the light sensitive layer, wherein the ultraviolet filter layer comprises an ultraviolet absorbing dibenzoylmethane compound of formula (I) where R1 through R5 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, nitro, or hydroyxl, or further substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkoxy, acyloxy, ester, carboxyl, alkyl thio, aryl thio, alkyl amine, aryl amine, alkyl nitrile, aryl nitrile, arylsulfonyl, or 5–6 member heterocycle ring groups. The present invention describes photographic elements that include materials that deliver a preferred UV absorption spectrum that provides adequate spark protection, and minimizes UV radiation incident on the element during camera exposure so that accurate color rendition can be achieved, while maximizing photographic speed in the blue record.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Kurt M. Schroeder, Rebecca A. Ott, Efrain O. Morales
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Patent number: 7090969Abstract: A photographic element comprises a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler and a compound of the following Formula I1: wherein L is a linking moiety; X is a heteroatom group selected from O, S, or NR? where R? is H or a substituent; w is 0 or 1; R is hydrogen or a substituent group; n is an integer from 0 to 5; and ST represents a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of: A. a thiomorpholine dioxide; B. a dialkoxy aromatic group linked through a phenolic oxygen; C. a dialkoxy aromatic group linked through the aromatic ring; D. a sulfonamido group; E. a hydroxyphenyl benzotriazole group; and F. a phenolic group.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Albert J. Mura, Shari L. Eiff, Gary M. Russo
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Patent number: 7026107Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material composing respectively at least one red-, green-, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the color photosensitive material containing a magenta dye which is fixed in the specific layer and is not colored by a coupling reaction with developing agent oxidation products, and/or containing a cyan dye which is fixed in the specific layer and is not colored by a coupling reaction with developing agent oxidation products, and containing an ultraviolet absorptive polymer latex represented by the formula (I) which is impregnated with a non high molecular weight ultraviolet absorptive compound. wherein a phenyl ring or a benzo ring may be optionally substituted, either of m or n is 1 and another is 0, and M and K are represented by the following formula (II): wherein R3 is H or an alkyl group, L is a divalent binding group, and p is 0 or 1.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideyuki Shirai
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Patent number: 7018570Abstract: The present invention is directed to an ultraviolet absorber composition which is formed by melt-mixing a compound (A) represented by formula (I): and a resin stabilizer (B) selected from the group consisting of a phenolic antioxidant (b-1), a phosphorus-containing antioxidant (b-2), a hindered amine stabilizer (b-3), and an ultraviolet absorber (b-4) other than the compound (A), at a mass ratio (A)/(B) of 95/5 to 50/50. The composition has excellent compatibility with synthetic resins and provides a stabilized synthetic resin molding.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2002Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Asahi Denka Kogyo K.K.Inventors: Tohru Haruna, Shinichi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6900006Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith in the same dispersion a certain de-aggregating compound at least one heterocyclic cyan dye-forming coupler of a specified formula and an aromatic stabilizer of a particular formula. The combination provides improved image stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Danuta Gibson, David Clarke, Christopher J. Winscom, Michael W. Crawley
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Patent number: 6841344Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith in the same dispersion a certain de-aggregating hydrogen bond donating and hydrogen bond accepting compound and at least one pyrazole fused ring derivative coupler. The combination provides improved colour reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Danuta Gibson, David Clarke, Christopher J. Winscom
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Patent number: 6756189Abstract: Disclosed is a colour photographic element containing one or more cyan dye-forming couplers, a UV absorber and a specific class of stabiliser, and an imaging process used therewith. The element exhibits improved stability.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Danuta Gibson, Llewellyn J. Leyshon, David Clarke
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Patent number: 6689533Abstract: A dye-fixing element for color diffusion transfer process, having an ultraviolet-absorbing layer that contains an ultraviolet absorber in a coating amount of 0.2 g/m2 or more, over a mordant layer; and containing, as at least one dispersion medium for the ultraviolet absorber, a compound represented by formula (1), in a ratio (mass ratio) of 25 to 200% of the ultraviolet absorber; with the sum of coating amounts of the ultraviolet absorber and total dispersion medium for the ultraviolet absorber being 1.0 g/m2 or less; wherein x and y each represent a molar fraction of each recurring unit, the total of x and y is 1, and y ranges from 0.85 to 0.95.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kiyoshi Irita
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Patent number: 6653484Abstract: Triazine, benzotriazole and benzophenone derivatives which are substituted or bridged with polyoxyalkylene groups, according to claim 1, and their use as UV absorbers, especially in photographic materials, in inks, including inkjet inks and printing inks, in transfer prints, in paints and varnishes, organic polymeric materials, plastics, rubber, glass, packaging materials, in sunscreens of cosmetic preparations and in skin protection compositions.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Vien Van Toan, Andreas Valet, Pascal Hayoz
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Patent number: 6641988Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed, comprising a yellow dye forming coupler, a magenta dye forming coupler and a cyan dye forming coupler, wherein spectral reflection absorption characteristics of a yellow dye, a magenta dye and a cyan dye which are formed of the yellow dye forming coupler, the magenta dye forming coupler and the cyan dye forming coupler, respectively, meet the following requirements: 110≧&lgr;max(M)−&lgr;max(Y)≧95, 80≧&lgr;max(C)−&lgr;max(M)≧70, 0.43≧Abs600(M)≧0.38, and 0.48≧Abs550(C)≧0.35.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Takeshi Hakii
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Patent number: 6613503Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a reflection support and an overcoat layer wherein said overcoat layer comprises hydrophilic binder and lubricant, said lubricant has a particle mean diameter of greater than 1 &mgr;m and the volume of particles of lubricant below 1 &mgr;m is less than 5% of said total volume of lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter Harold Isaac, James Stephen Honan, Edgar Erick Riecke
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Patent number: 6558887Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material containing in at least one red-sensitive layer a cyan coupler having formula (I) and in a photosensitive or non-photosensitive layer a UV absorber having formula (II) where R1 to R4, R11 to R16, Z, m, n and o have the meanings specified in the description, is characterised by good light and dark stability and low secondary densities.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Günter Helling, Ralf Weimann
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Patent number: 6548234Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, UV absorber and (A) a stabilizer of formula (I) wherein R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or aryl group or a 5- to 10- membered heterocyclic ring which contains one or more heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, which ring is unsubstituted or substituted; Z is a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; X is a group selected from —SO2—, —SO—, —COO—,—CO— and —CS—, W is one or more unsubstituted or independently substituted alkylene groups connecting the nitrogen atom to X, and p is 0 or 1; R2 is a substituent group; or the groups represented by Z and R2 can be joined to form a ring which may be substituted; and (B) a high-boiling solvent of formula (II) wherein R3 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl orType: GrantFiled: August 21, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Danuta Gibson
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Patent number: 6472136Abstract: A method for forming a dispersion of an oil-soluble photographically useful compound in water or a hydrophilic colloid composition is disclosed, comprising dispersing the compound in the presence of a water-soluble anionic group containing polymeric surfactant, wherein the polymeric surfactant comprises a copolymer obtained from the copolymerization of a maleic anhydride monomer and a copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer and the anionic groups of the polymeric surfactant comprise primarily carboxy groups obtained upon base hydrolysis of the anhydride groups of the copolymer. The use of hydrolyzed maleic anhydride derived copolymers in place of conventional small-molecule surfactants as a dispersing agent to stabilize photographically active water-insoluble dye couplers or other organic oil-soluble photographically useful compounds enables a dramatic reduction of crystallization of such organic molecules on long-term keeping.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Julia S. Tan, Kurt M. Schroeder, Delaina A. Amos
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Patent number: 6312880Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 above said color record 2 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and a top overcoat layer comprising gelatin and ultraviolet absorbing material; and wherein each interlayer is substantially scavenger free, and color records 1, 2, and 3 comprise silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, at least one color record develops to a density of at least 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael R. Roberts, Hwei-Ling Yau, Glenn M. Brown
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Patent number: 6303281Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a light-insensitive protective layer, the light-insensitive protective layer comprising an ultraviolet absorbing layer closer to the support and an outermost protective layer, the ultraviolet absorbing layer comprising an ultraviolet aborbing dye, a high boiling organic solvent, and a hydrophilic binder, the outermost protective layer comprising insoluble matte particles having a mean particle size of larger than 0.5 &mgr;m, dispersed polymer particles having a mean size of less than 0.2 &mgr;m, and a glass transition temperature of at least 70° C., and a hydrophilic binder.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1996Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Melvin Michael Kestner, Alfred Bruce Fant, Dennis Edward Smith
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Patent number: 6291586Abstract: An ultraviolet light absorbing material that resists blooming and migration is made up of a polyurethane or polyurea polymer and an amide functional ultraviolet light absorbing compound, wherein the polymer and the amide functional ultraviolet light absorbing compound are hydrogen bonded to one another. Polymeric films that contain a polymeric matrix and the ultraviolet light absorbing material are useful as the top layer in multilayer constructions such as retroreflective sheetings and conformable marking sheets.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: James E. Lasch, David B. Olson, David M. Burns
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Patent number: 6166218Abstract: Benzotriazole UV absorbers which are substituted at the 5-position of the benzo ring by an electron withdrawing group exhibit enhanced durability and very low loss rates when incorporated into automotive coatings. This is particularly the case when the 3-position of the phenyl ring is also substituted by phenyl or phenylalkyl such as .alpha.-cumyl. Compounds where the 5-position of the benzo ring are substituted by perfluoroalkyl such as trifluoromethyl are particularly of interest for both their enhanced durability and for their excellent solubility and excellent color properties in some thermoplastic compositions when the phenyl ring is substituted at the 3-position by hydrogen or tert-alkyl.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Ramanathan Ravichandran, Joseph Suhadolnik, Mervin G. Wood, Anthony Debellis, Robert E. Detlefsen, Revathi Iyengar, Jean-Pierre Wolf
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Patent number: 6150440Abstract: An ultraviolet light absorbing material that resists blooming and migration is made up of a carboxyl functional polymer and an amide functional ultraviolet light absorbing compound, wherein the carboxyl functional polymer and the amide functional ultraviolet light absorbing compound are hydrogen bonded to one another. Polymeric films that contain a polyolefin and the ultraviolet light absorbing material are useful as the top layer in multilayer constructions such as retroreflective sheetings and conformable marking sheets.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1998Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: David B. Olson, David M. Burns
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Patent number: 6136519Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material and a method for forming a color photographic image by processing said color photographic material with a color developer substantially free from sulfite. Said color photographic material comprises the uppermost non-photosensitive colloid layer of photographic constitutional layers containing a dispersion obtained by emulsifying and dispersing a solution containing at least one ultraviolet-absorbing agent represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and at least one water-insoluble polymer compound, and a gelatin having an isoelectric point of 6.0 or over: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, or an acylamino group; R.sub.4 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1993Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazunori Hasebe
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Patent number: 5998116Abstract: The invention relates to a color-photographic recording material comprising, on a support, a blue-sensitive, a green-sensitive and/or a red-sensitive silver-halide emulsion layer, a protection layer above the sensitive layers, and, if desired, separation layers between the sensitive layers, where at least one of said layers includes a UV absorber of the formula ##STR1## The stabilizers of the formula (1) or (1a) have good inherent stability and high light absorption; the photographic recording material described has excellent stability of the magenta, cyan and yellow layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Pascal Hayoz, Christophe Bulliard, David George Leppard
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Patent number: 5994431Abstract: An ultraviolet light absorbing material that resists blooming and migration is made up of a carboxyl functional polymer and an amide functional ultraviolet light absorbing compound, wherein the carboxyl functional polymer and the amide functional ultraviolet light absorbing compound are hydrogen bonded to one another. Polymeric films that contain a polyolefin and the ultraviolet light absorbing material are useful as the top layer in multilayer constructions such as retroreflective sheetings and conformable marking sheets.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1996Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: David B. Olson, David M. Burns
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Patent number: 5948605Abstract: The present invention provides UV absorbing particles which are a polymerization reaction product of ethylenically unsaturated monomers selected from esters and amides of acrylic on methacrylic acid, vinyl esters, vinyl ethers, and vinyl nitrites; an initiator, a surfactant and an ultraviolet absorber having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is each independently a hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, acyloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, amine, alkylamino, arylamino, hydroxyl, cyano, nitro, acylamino, sulfonyl, sulfamido, acyloxy and oxycarbonyl.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1996Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Dennis Edward Smith, James Lee Bello, Kurt Michael Schroeder
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Patent number: 5914223Abstract: The present invention is a silver halide photographic element which includes a support, at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; and at least one light-insensitive protective layer. The light insenstive protective layer includes a hydrophilic binder, a colloidal silver particle and an ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer particle having a mean size of greater than 0.01 .mu.m. The ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer particle contains an ultraviolet ray absorber and a polymer derived from monomer A and less than 10 weight percent of monomer B, wherein monomer A represents ethylenically unsaturated monomers which form substantially water insoluble homopolymers, and monomer B represents ethylenically unsaturated monomers capable of forming water soluble homopolymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Alfred B. Fant, Gary W. Visconte, Kurt M. Schroeder
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Patent number: 5858633Abstract: Photographic elements containing 3-tertiary alkyl group substituted 2-hydroxyphenylbenzotriazole UV absorbing polymers. In particular, a photographic element having at least one layer containing a light sensitive silver halide emulsion and at least one layer which is not light sensitive, the element having in at least one of the layers an ultraviolet absorbing polymer which includes units formed from monomers of the structure of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: n is an integer of 1 to 6;p and m are, independently, 0 or 1;tert-Alk is a 4 to 10 carbon atom tertiary alkyl group;G is --CO--, --C(O)--, --C(O)NH--, or --SO.sub.2 --;R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are, independently, H, halogen, alkyl group or alkoxy group, and if n is more than 1 all of the R.sub.2 may be the same or different and all of the R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Tienteh Chen, Hwei-Ling Yau
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Patent number: 5856078Abstract: The present invention is a silver halide photographic element which includes a support, at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and an antihalation undercoat layer interposed between the at least one light sensitive silver halide layer and the support. The antihalation undercoat layer includes a hydrophilic binder and an ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer particle having a mean size of greater than 0.01 .mu.m. The ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer particle includes an ultraviolet ray absorber and a polymer derived from monomer A and less than 10 weight % of monomer B, wherein monomer A represents ethylenically unsaturated monomers which form substantially water insoluble homopolymers, and monomer B represents ethylenically unsaturated monomers capable of forming water soluble homopolymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Alfred B. Fant, Gary W. Visconte
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Patent number: 5780214Abstract: The light stability of a color photographic silver halide material is improved if, as UV protection, a) a TiO.sub.2 pigment having a primary particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm is added to one layer and b) a hydroxyphenylbenzotriazole compound and/or a hydroxyphenyltriazine compound is added to the same or a different layer of the material.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1997Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventors: Jorg Hagermann, Arno Schmuck
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Patent number: 5770353Abstract: Silver halide photographic elements are disclosed comprising a support having a front and a back side, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a light-insensitive protective overcoat on the front side of the support, and a magnetic recording layer on the back side of the support, the light-insensitive protective overcoat comprising an outermost protective layer, wherein the outermost protective layer comprises a hydrophilic binder and dispersed particles having a mean size of less than 0.4 .mu.m of a polymer having a glass transition temperature of at least 70.degree. C. comprising units derived from monomers A and B at a weight ratio of A:B of from 97:3 to 80:20 and less than 3 wt % ionic monomers, where A represents ethylenically unsaturated monomers which form substantially water insoluble homopolymers and B represents ethylenically unsaturated non-ionic monomers capable of forming water soluble homopolymers.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Alfred Bruce Fant, Dennis Edward Smith, Kurt Michael Schroeder, Melvin Michael Kestner
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Patent number: 5756257Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive color proofing article incorporating an antihalation effective amount of one or more antihalation dyes of the general formula (I) shown below: ##STR1## wherein: Z is an oxygen atom, NH, or NR; R is an alkyl group of 1 to 12 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R.sup.1 represents a perfluoroalkylsulfonyl group of 1 to 12 carbon atoms or an arylsulfonyl group; and R.sup.2 represents a perfluoroalkylsulfonyl group of from 1 to 12 carbon atoms; an arylsulfonyl group; or a cyano group. The antihalation dyes of formula (I) absorb radiation within the wavelength range of from about 325 to 700 nm and preferably, from about 325 to 450 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: Imation Corp.Inventors: Kevin D. Landgrebe, Alice S. Mendelsohn
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Patent number: 5731137Abstract: There is disclosed an emulsified dispersion, in which at least one compound of the formula (1) dissolved in an organic solvent comprising at least one high-boiling organic solvent satisfying the condition X.gtoreq.85 in formula (A) is emulsified in a water medium; with the proviso that phthalates and compounds having an epoxy group and having the viscosity less than 100 mPas are excluded from said high-boiling organic solvents: formula (1) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, and R.sup.6, which are the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 may bond together to form a 6-membered ring,formula (A)X=24.7.times.Log.sub.10 Y-11.7.times.Z+43.7wherein Y and Z stand for, respectively, the viscosity in mPas at 25.degree. C. and the specific water content in % by weight of the high-boiling organic solvent. There is also disclosed a silver halide color light-sensitive material containing the emulsified dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuko Saito, Masatoshi Nakanishi
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Patent number: 5683861Abstract: An ultraviolet absorbing compound of formula (I) below, and photographic elements containing such a compound as an ultraviolet absorber: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.4 is a substituted alkyl group, R.sub.4 may be further joined to either L or A* forming a ring and the benzo or phenyl ring shown may be further substituted or unsubstituted;L is a bivalent linking group;p is 0 or 1;A* is an alkyl group having an asymmetric carbon or asymmetric silicon atom, and;wherein the ultraviolet absorbing compound of formula (I) is a mixture of two enantiomers about the asymmetric carbon or silicon atom of A*.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1996Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lal C. Vishwakarma, Glenn M. Brown
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Patent number: 5674670Abstract: A photographic element comprising a light sensitive portion and an ultraviolet absorbing polymer comprising repeating units of a 2'-hydroxphenyl benzotriazole with a 5- or 6-substituent selected from halogen, cyano, carboxy or a sulfonyl, and a 4'-alkoxy group in which the alkylene portion of the alkoxy is linked, in sequence through a first optional bivalent linking group, then an oxygen, sulfur or amino group, then a second optional bivalent linking group, to the polymer chain, provided that the 3'-position is unsubsituted and the 4'-substituent does not have any --NH--, --OH or --SH substituents.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1996Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lal Chand Vishwakarma, Hwei-Ling Yau, Tienteh Chen
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Patent number: 5674668Abstract: A color photographic recording material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer, which material contains in at least one of its layers a combination of at least one UV absorber of the formula I and at least one low molecular weight or polymeric oil formula containing acid groups, for example of the formula T--?R.sup.21 --(Q.sup.1).sub.p !.sub.q --X.sup.21 --OH (II), exhibits improved absorption for UV light. ##STR1## In the formula I: R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 mean H, halogen, hydroxy, mercapto, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, acyloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, --NR.sup.5 --R.sup.6, alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl or sulphamoyl;R.sup.2 means H, hydroxy, halogen or alkyl;R.sup.4 means alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy, arylthio or a residue of the formula ##STR2## R.sup.5 means H, alkyl or aryl; R.sup.6 means H, alkyl, aryl, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl, sulphamoyl or sulphonyl;m, n and o mean 1, 2, 3 or 4,wherein two or more residues R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are identical or different;in the formula II:X.sup.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1996Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Jorg Hagemann, Gunter Helling, Beate Weber
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Patent number: 5667950Abstract: High-contrast room-light-handleable contact-exposed ultraviolet-sensitive black-and-white silver halide photographic elements useful in the field of graphic arts are provided with an electrically-conductive layer which serves to provide antistatic protection. The electrically-conductive layer is comprised of electrically-conductive metal-containing particles, such as particles of antimony-doped tin oxide, a film-forming polymer, such as gelatin, and an ultraviolet-absorber, such as a solid particle filter dye, in an amount sufficient to provide halation protection.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1996Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Ronald James Schmidt
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Patent number: 5665334Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## R and R.sub.1, which can be the same or different, are hydrogen or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 straight or branched alkyl group, R.sub.2 is hydrogen or the group OR.sub.4, wherein R.sub.4 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group,R.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl,X is oxygen or the NR.sub.5 group, wherein R.sub.5 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 straight or branched alkyl group n is the number 1 or 2,A, when n is 1, is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 straight or branched alkyl group, C.sub.6 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl group, the group of formula (II), ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6 is hydrogen or methyl group or a group of formula (III) ##STR3## wherein R.sub.6 has the above meanings and R.sub.7 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 straight or branched alkyl group, phenyl, optionally substituted with a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 straight or branched alkyl group, m can have the values from 0 to 4,A, when n is 2 is C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkylene or the group of formula (IV) ##STR4## wherein R.sub.8 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: 3V Inc.Inventors: Giuseppe Raspanti, Giorgio Zanchi
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Patent number: 5635343Abstract: A substantially inert ultraviolet absorbing compound, and photographic elements containing them, which compound has a peak absorption at less than 400 nm and being of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: X is O or NR.sub.8, Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring which includes X and N, and the 3-position of the pyrazolone ring may independently be substituted or unsubstituted;R.sub.5 is alkyl, alkenyl, or arylalkyl any of which may be substituted or unsubstituted, or R.sub.5 may form a ring with a 3-position substituent on the pyrazolone ring or a 4-position substituent on the benzo ring;R.sub.7 is alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or heterocycle, any of which may be substituted or unsubstituted, or H; andR.sub.8 is alkyl, alkenyl, or arylalkyl any of which may be substituted or unsubstituted, or H.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1995Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Donald P. Specht, Donald R. Diehl
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Patent number: 5620838Abstract: A polymeric UV absorbing compound which comprises UV absorbing monomeric units of at least 0.05 weight percent of ionic units which have an ionizable group which is ionized at all pH values between 5 to 10. Photographic elements which contain such polymeric compounds and methods of making such polymers and photographic elements, are also provided. The polymeric UV absorbing compounds are directly dispersible in water.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1994Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Tienteh Chen, Hwei-Ling Yau, Edward Schofield
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2'-hydroxyphenyl benzotriazole based UV absorbing polymers and photographic elements containing them
Patent number: 5610000Abstract: An ultraviolet absorbing polymer, and photographic elements containing such a polymer, which polymer includes units formed from monomers of the structure of formula (II): A photographic element containing an ultraviolet absorbing polymer which includes units formed from monomers of the structure of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: p and q are, independently, 0 or 1;L and L.sub.2 are bivalent linking groups;R.sub.9 is a non-hydrogen group which does not contain any unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds;R.sub.10 is H, alkyl group, aryl group, or heterocyclyl group;A is an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable group; the benzene ring of the benzotriazole and the 2'-hydroxyphenyl ring each may be further substituted or unsubstituted.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1995Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lal C. Vishwakarma, Hwei-Ling Yau, Tienteh Chen -
Patent number: 5597854Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which n is 1 or 2, A is CH or a nitrogen atom, and the other radicals R.sup.1 to R.sup.25 are as defined in claim 1.The compounds of the formula I can advantageously be employed for stabilizing organic material against the harmful effect of light, oxygen and/or heat.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1995Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Jean-Luc Birbaum, Gerhard Rytz, Vien Van Toan, Andreas Valet, Norbert W urms
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Patent number: 5593818Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material having a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer on at least one side of the support, which comprises a layer containing at least one ultraviolet absorbent that is present on one or both surfaces or a support containing at least one ultraviolet absorbent, the total content of the ultraviolet absorbent being 0.01 to 10 g/m.sup.2, and the support being made of a polyethylene naphthalate or its derivative. As the ultraviolet absorbent, at least one of compounds represented by formula (I) to (VI) is preferably used.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1995Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fumio Kawamoto
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Patent number: 5585228Abstract: Ultraviolet absorbing compounds of formula (I) and photographic elements containing such compounds: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.4 is a bivalent linking group; the benzo or phenyl ring shown may be further substituted or unsubstituted;L is a bivalent linking group;p is 0 or 1;A* is an alkyl group having an asymmetric carbon or silicon atom, and;wherein the ultraviolet absorbing compound of formula (I) is a mixture of two enantiomers about the asymmetric carbon or silicon of A*.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 17, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lal C. Vishwakarma, Glenn M. Brown
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Patent number: 5576161Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material improved in color forming properties and light fastness of color image is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a nonlight-sensitive layer, wherein the nonlight-sensitive layer contains a UV absorbent and the silver halide emulsion layer contains a polyhydric alcohol.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Motoi Nishimura, Hirokazu Sato, Hiroshi Kita
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Patent number: 5543275Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having excellent color absorption characteristics and good yellow density is achieved by using a support having thereon at least one yellow coloring light-sensitive layer, at least one magenta coloring light-sensitive layer, and at least one cyan coloring light-sensitive layer, wherein the magenta coloring light-sensitive layer contains at least one dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (M-I), at least one high boiling point organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 6.0 or less and a refractive index of 1.50 or less, and at least one benzotriazole ultraviolet absorber: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a branched or aromatic group represented by the formulas (Q-1), (Q-2) or (Q-3); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a substituent; n represents an integer of form 0 to 4, and when n is 2 or more, the plurality of R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiyuki Makuta
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Patent number: 5541045Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one pyrazolotriazole magenta of formula (I) and at least one 1,3,5-triazine compound of formula (II) in the same photographic constitutive layer. ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Za, Zb and Zc each represent a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--; Y represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off from the formula by coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; and the formula may form a dimer or a higher polymer via R, Y or the substituted methine group for Za, Zb or Zc. ##STR2## wherein A, B and C each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy or substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, provided that at least one of A, B and C represents a group of a general formula (III): ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 ' and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Masakazu Morigaki
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Patent number: 5538842Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which excels in a color reproduction and a light fastness at a low density part through a high density part and which is improved in a Y-stain at a background part. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support and provided thereon at least one photographic constitutional layer, wherein at least one layer of the above photographic constitutional layers contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following Formula (I) and a compound represented by the following Formula (II) in the same layer: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z.sub.a, Z.sub.b, and Z.sub.c each represent any group of methine, substituted methine, .dbd.N--, or --NH--; Y represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; provided that a dimer or a polymer may be formed via R, Y, or Z.sub.a, Z.sub.b or Z.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1994Date of Patent: July 23, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Takehiko Sato
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Patent number: 5523200Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method of silver halide grain finishing comprising providing a high chloride silver halide grain emulsion and adding a silver bromide fine grain Lippmann emulsion during the chemical sensitization heat cycle for each grain wherein said fine grain emulsion has a photographically useful compound adhered to said fine grain Lippmann emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1995Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul T. Hahm, Walter H. Isaac, Heinz E. Stapelfeldt
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Patent number: 5478707Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive which is capable of providing a rapid processing as well as a high sensitivity and in which a change in an aging time in exposing through processing provides less performance fluctuation and therefore an excellent stability.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: RE37205Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color forming silver halide emulsion layer. The yellow color forming emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, a yellow coupler and a bisphenol compound and optionally a difficultly water-soluble epoxy compound. One or more layers of the light-sensitive material may contain an ultraviolet light absorber.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoneyama
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Patent number: RE37693Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a reflective support having thereon a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers of which the emulsion layer located farthest from said support has, on each of both the support side thereof and the uppermost side at least one nonlight-sensitive layer containing an effective amount of an ultraviolet absorbing agent, said ultraviolet absorbing agent being used in said nonlight-sensitive layer on the uppermost side of said emulsion layer being a 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)benzotriazole-type compound which is in the liquid form at normal room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1989Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Sasaki, Kaoru Onodera