Patents Examined by L. Falasco
  • Patent number: 4138258
    Abstract: A multilayer color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion containing a yellow coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, with the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a gelatin interlayer adjacent the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a non-diffusible colored compound which, on coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a primary aromatic amino developing agent at development, can release a diffusible dye capable of being removed from the photographic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hirose, Keisuke Shiba, Yukio Yokota, Kozo Inouye, Akio Okumura
  • Patent number: 4138265
    Abstract: A photographic material, especially a photothermographic material, for producing a dye-enhanced silver image comprising, in reactive association, (a) photosensitive silver halide, (b) an image-forming combination comprising (i) a silver salt of a certain 3-amino-1,2,4-mercaptotriazole derivative with (ii) a phenylenediamine or aminophenol silver halide developing agent, (c) a compound that contains a coupling moiety and which forms a dye upon reaction with the oxidized form of the developing agent, such as upon heating the element to a temperature above about 80.degree. C., (d) a binder, and (e) an antifoggant concentration of a thiazoline thione antifoggant, provides developed dye-enhanced silver images without the need for processing solutions or baths and provides reduced fog upon processing. An image can be developed in this material by merely heating the material to moderately elevated temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Daniel D. Shiao
  • Patent number: 4123274
    Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising in reactive association (a) photosensitive silver halide, (b) an image-forming combination comprising (i) a silver salt of certain 1,2,4-mercaptotriazole derivatives with (ii) a silver halide developing agent, and (c) a polymeric binder, provides developed images without the need for processing solutions or baths. An image can be developed in this material by merely heating the material to moderately elevated temperatures. The silver salts of certain 3-amino-1,2,4-mercaptotriazole derivatives are particularly preferred compounds. Other addenda employed in heat developable photothermographic materials, such as sensitizing dyes, can be employed with the photothermographic materials described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Phillip D. Knight, Richard A. DEMauriac, Patricia A. Graham
  • Patent number: 4120720
    Abstract: In an electrostatographic recording member comprising at least:(1) an electrically-insulating substrate;(2) an electrically-conductive intermediate layer overlying a first surface of said substrate; and(3) an electrically-insulating outer layer overlying said conductive layer, said outer layer containing a photoconductive material or being composed of a dielectric material of high volume resistivity;The improvement comprising a combined means for accurately positioning said recording member during imaging thereof and for establishing an electrical ground connection to said intermediate conductive layer, said combined means comprising at least two separate holes through said recording member in a non-image area thereof and a conductive lacquer coating on the inner surface of at least one of said holes, said holes being adapted to receive protrusions during imaging to accurately position said recording member and said conductive lacquer being in electrical contact with the exposed intermediate conductive layer
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Scott Paper Company
    Inventor: Frank C. Gross
  • Patent number: 4119461
    Abstract: A photosensitive material of the binder type for electrophotography having a photosensitive layer of the material comprising a silicon oil having a viscosity of at least 6000 cs when measured at 25.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Yamada, Akira Kato, Tohru Uchida
  • Patent number: 4113496
    Abstract: A dry image forming material with an increased sensitivity, characterized by including a) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, b) a reducing agent and c) a compound or a composition which comprises a halogen component and an organic component containing an element except for sulfur belonging to the IV group, V group or VI group of the periodic table and having an atomic number of 14 or more, and is adapted, by heating, to interact with the silver ion of a) to form a photosensitive interaction product. The dry image forming material according to this invention is of the type of post-activation and can be prepared, stored and handled under normal lighting conditions. The post-activation type dry image forming material according to this invention can be spectrally sensitized by incorporation of a sensitizing dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Shiga, Masaru Ozaki, Tatsumi Arakawa, Hidehiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4108663
    Abstract: A photographic developing agent represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein one of X and Y is a group capable of inhibiting development on release immediately after the developing agent is oxidized at the step of development, and the other of X and Y is an --NH--SO.sub.2 --Z group (wherein Z is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group); A is a hydrogen atom or a group hydrolyzable under alkaline conditions; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an --S--Z' group (wherein Z' is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group), an --NH--SO.sub.2 --Z" group (wherein Z" is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group), an acylamido group, an amino group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, or an acyloxy group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsugu Tanaka, Masaki Okazaki, Toshiaki Aono, Takeshi Hirose
  • Patent number: 4105453
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a basic mordant, an acidic dye, a hydrophilic colloid layer containing a compound (I) and a layer containing a compound (II) which layer is adjacent to said hydrophilic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasumasa Numata, Kunio Ito, Keiichi Mori, Yoshitami Ono
  • Patent number: 4104069
    Abstract: A process of forming on a copying material from an original having respective minimum and maximum density values D.sub.min and D.sub.max a copy having respective minimum and maximum density values P and Q, different from D.sub.min and D.sub.max, comprising the steps of: forming first and second non-superimposed test wedge images by exposing first and second specimens of the copying material to light of respective first and second colors, the exposure of the first and second specimens being such that the respective average exposure times are T.sub.B and T.sub.G, with the exposure to light varying across each specimen according to a preselected relationship, determining from the first test wedge image the density values D.sub.1 and D.sub.3 which an original must have to produce upon the copying material the respective density values P and Q if the copying of such original onto the copying material is performed with light of the first color for an exposure time T.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, AG
    Inventors: Jacques Leon Vanheerentals, Josef Pfeifer, Helmut Klocke, Rudolf Paulus
  • Patent number: 4104071
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing and preparing photogenerated printing media for multi-page printing including a method and the apparatus for carrying out the method in which the sequence in which the proof pages of the pages to be printed are to be sorted and arranged, are recorded on a film strip and the film strip is transorted through a viewer. The film strip is viewed through a viewer and the pages are sorted and arranged. The sorted and arranged papers are then affixed to segments of a conveyer sheet advanced through a paste-up machine. The sheet, after the proof pages have been affixed thereto is transported across a copy board and the images of the copy to be printed and which appear on the proof pages affixed to the conveyer sheet are photographically reproduced on a strip of roll film advanced through a camera. The film is then processed and the processed film is used to photosensitize printing plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1972
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: Powers Chemco, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Crissy
  • Patent number: 4102312
    Abstract: A thermally developable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon or therein at least one layer containing at least (a) an organic silver salt, (b) a light-sensitive silver halide or a component capable of forming a light-sensitive silver halide, and (c) a reducing agent, which contains (d) a palladium-containing compound in at least one layer provided on or in the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Sashihara, Takao Masuda
  • Patent number: 4089685
    Abstract: A process is disclosed of forming a reversal dye image. This is accomplished by developing an imagewise exposed photographic element with a black-and-white developer and poisoning the developed silver as a redox amplification catalyst for a peroxide oxodizing agent. The undeveloped silver is then rendered developable to form a silver catalyst image pattern. This latter silver image pattern is then used to catalyze the redox reaction of a peroxide oxidizing agent and a dye-image-generating reducing agent, such as a color-developing agent, or a redox dye-releaser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Vernon L. Bissonette
  • Patent number: 4087282
    Abstract: A method of flocculating a gelatin-silver halide photographic emulsion, which comprises flocculating the silver halide with gelatin at a pH of 6 or less in the presence of a polymer consisting essentially of recurring units represented by General Formula (Ia) or (Ib): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which can be the same or different, represent aliphatic groups, R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group, X represents --O-- or --NH--, M represents a cation and X and R.sup.3 may linked to each other to form a cyclic amino group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Mitsui, Takushi Miyazako, Takashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4084970
    Abstract: Organic holographic recording media comprise organic photosensitive compounds such as .alpha.-diketones, quinones and nitro compounds in sucrose benzoate as host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Bloom, Daniel Louis Ross, Robert Alfred Bartolini, Ling Kong Hung
  • Patent number: 4080210
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing uniformly-sized particles wherein a first liquid reactant is chemically reacted with a second liquid reactant to form precipitated particles of substantially uniform particle size which comprises forming substantially uniformly-sized droplets of one of said reactants and directing said droplets against the falling flow of the other of said reactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1978
    Assignee: Shoei Chemical Incorporated
    Inventors: Eiichi Asada, Hiromu Sasaki, Toshio Matsuhashi
  • Patent number: 4070190
    Abstract: The invention is a process of producing a lithographic silver halide emulsion having a core/shell structure exhibiting improved halftone dot quality and increased photographic speed, comprising: (1) precipitating a silver chloride emulsion in a protective colloid, (2) converting said silver chloride emulsion to a silver bromide emulsion, and (3) precipitating a silver chloride shell on the surfaces of the silver bromide grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Wolfgang Friedrich, Horst Friedel, Erhard Jury
  • Patent number: 4055422
    Abstract: The addition of either a borohydride or borane complex anhydrously associated with an aldose to an inhibitor removing bath which does not contain a color reverse agent improves color balance and contributes color agent to the bath. Addition of these anhydrously associated materials avoids possible decomposition in premixed solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1977
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Bruce W. Wittnebel, R. Dean Lowrey
  • Patent number: 4053309
    Abstract: An electrophotographic camera is disclosed. The camera employs a novel photoconductive plate, the composition of which is disclosed together with the method of making same. In the camera, a photo image to be recorded is focused thrugh an optically transparent substrate and transparent electrode onto the back surface of a photoconductive layer. The charge-retentive surface of an electrographic recording paper is disposed adjacent the photoconductive layer and the conductive backing of the paper is connected to an electrode for impressing a charge transfer potential across the photoconductor layer and the charge-retentive layer of the paper. When the potential is impressed across the photoconductor, electrons liberated in the photoconductor by the photon image to be recorded are transferred to the charge-retentive surface of the recording paper to form a charge image of the object to be recorded. The charge image is subsequently developed by applying charged toner particles to the image for developing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Varian Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Guy A. Marlor
  • Patent number: 4026706
    Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive element using specifically defined yellow, magenta and cyan color couplers in the individual respectively blue, green and red-sensitive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Hidehiko Ishikawa, Katsuo Mogaki, Mikio Sato, Shui Sato, Masahiko Taguchi, Haruhiko Sato
  • Patent number: RE29379
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least two light-sensitive layers, at least one of said layers containing a compound capable of coupling with an oxidation product of a color developing agent and in which splitable hetero aromatic ring containing a triazole or diazole ring is connected to the carbon atom in the coupling position, through the nitrogen atom in the 1-position of said triazole or diazole ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shiba, Nobuo Furutachi, Harumi Katsuyama, Takeshi Hirose, Toshiaki Aono, Shoji Ishiguro