Patents Examined by Lee C. Wright
  • Patent number: 5616446
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one side thereof hydrophilic colloid layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers contains a redox compound having at least one carbonyl group, wherein said redox compound is capable of being oxidized with an oxidized product of a developing agent in a photographic processing so as to release a development inhibitor, and wherein said redox compound satisfies the following Formulae 1 through 3:Formula 1development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (A).gtoreq.4.5,Formula 2development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (B)<15.0,Formula 3development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (A)>development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under condition (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Miura, Tawara Komamura, Seiji Hidaka, Takeo Arai
  • Patent number: 5616454
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support, provided thereon, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains a coupler represented by the following Formula I; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; R.sub.2 is a chlorine atom or an alkoxyl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that when R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom, R.sub.4 is a substituent; and R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are each a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Kaneko, Shinri Tanaka, Michiko Nagato
  • Patent number: 5616456
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a methine compound containing a thiohydantoin ring substituted by a pyrazinyl group at the 3-position, which has high sensitivity, high reproducibility, good storage stability, and leaves hardly color on unexposed areas after being processed. Example General formula: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of atoms necessary to form a five- or six-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.3 represents a pyrazinyl group; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group; and n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Oya, Takahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 5614360
    Abstract: A photographic element and an aqueous coating composition for providing a layer to a photographic element are disclosed. The coating composition comprises gelatin in a concentration greater than about 6% by weight, and a palladium complex having the structure: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8 are independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl or alkaryl, the alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or alkaryl optionally being substituted with a hydroxy, sulfonate, amino or ammonium group; and wherein any two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8 can be bonded to form a ring;Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Harbison, Wilbur S. Gaugh, Thomas H. Whitesides, James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 5614357
    Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a cyan coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group of 2 to 15 carbon atoms;R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group;R.sub.6 represents an alkyl or aryl group;X represents a halogen atom; andZ represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being split off by oxidized color developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Philip T. S. Lau, Stanley W. Cowan
  • Patent number: 5609996
    Abstract: A photographic light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer has associated therewith a pyrazoloazole dye-forming coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is a substituent bonded to the pyrazolotriazole nucleus by a fully substituted carbon atom;X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group;L is a divalent linking group;R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are independently hydrogen or substituent groups; andZ.sub.a, Z.sub.b, and Z.sub.c are independently --C(R')(R")--, .dbd.N--, .dbd.C(R')--, or --NH--, wherein R', and R" are independently H or a substituent, provided that one of either the Z.sub.a --Z.sub.b or the Z.sub.b --Z.sub.c bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond, and provided that when the Z.sub.b --Z.sub.c bond is a double bond, it may form part of a fused ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ping W. Tang, Stanley W. Cowan, David J. Decker, Terrence C. Mungal
  • Patent number: 5610005
    Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material which has a high storage stability and a high sensitivity and in which photographic properties vary little with the passage of time from photography to development is provided. At least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer constituting a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is spectrally sensitized with at least one type of a spectral sensitizing dye represented by Formula (I) below, and at least one silver halide emulsion contained in this light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is subjected to reduction sensitization in the manufacturing process of the emulsion. (In Formula (I), each of R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 represents an alkyl group, Z.sub.11 represents a group of atoms required to form a benzene ring, Z.sub.12 represents a group of atoms required to form a benzothiazole nucleus, a benzoselenazole nucleus, a benzoxazole nucleus, or a naphthoxazole nucleus, and X.sub.11 represents a charge-balancing counter anion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawakami, Junji Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 5607829
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z represents an atomic group necessary for forming a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, R.sub.3 represents a nitrogen-containing 5-membered heterocyclic ring, L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group and n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Oya, Yoshio Inagaki, Takahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 5607827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon, wherein said silver halide photographic material comprises tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio higher than 3:1 dispersed in highly deionized gelatin, and a pyridinium carbamoyl hardener having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to carbon atoms, an aryl group having from 6 to 15 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group having from 7 to 15 carbon atoms, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together form the atoms required to complete a heterocyclic ring, R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a carbamoyl group, a ureido group, and R.sub.4 represents an alkylene group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a single chemical bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
    Inventors: Mark P. Kirk, Stefano Parodi, Paolo Vacca
  • Patent number: 5605786
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one of said hydrophilic colloid layer(s) is a silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer and wherein at least one of said hydrophilic colloid layer(s) contains a coupler represented by formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; T represents a divalent linking group bonded to the --O--CO-- group via an atom other than a carbon atom; n represents 0, 1 or 2; and ETA represents a group functioning as an electron transfer agent after cleavage from --O--CO--(T).sub.n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Toshihiro Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 5605787
    Abstract: Magenta image-dye couplers provide photographic elements and processes having superior photographic properties. The couplers are 3-anilino pyrazolone couplers having an aryl thio coupling-off group. The substituents of the coupler are specified to obtain advantageous properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John L. Pawlak, David S. Bailey, William R. Schleigh, Charles E. Romano, Jr., Paul B. Merkel, Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5605788
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing a pyrazolotriazole coupler represented by the following formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a group capable of being splitted off by the reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; L.sub.1 represents an (n+1)-valent linking group; L.sub.2 represents a group represented by the following formula (III); and n represents 1 or 2, and when n is 2, two L.sub.2 's may be the same or different;--[(A.sub.1).sub.a (B.sub.1).sub.b (A.sub.2).sub.c (B.sub.2).sub.d (A.sub.3).sub.e (B.sub.3).sub.f (A.sub.4).sub.g (B.sub.4).sub.h ](III)wherein A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3 and A.sub.4 each represents --O--, --S--, --NR.sub.2 --, --N(R.sub.2)CO--, --CON(R.sub.2)--, --N(R.sub.2)SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.2 N(R.sub.2)--, --CO.sub.2 --, --OCO--, --N(R.sub.2)CON(R.sub.3)--, --OCON(R.sub.2)-- or --N(R.sub.2)CO.sub.2 --; R.sub.2 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kawagishi, Takeshi Nakamine, Masuji Motoki
  • Patent number: 5601968
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material with a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer applied thereto which contains at least one 2-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler of the formula (I) ##STR1## with the substituents having the meanings stated in the specification and at least one amine which contains repeat units of the formulae (II) or (III) ##STR2## with the substituents having the meanings stated in the specification, is distinguished by reduced fogging and color spotting during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Beate Weber, Hans Langen, Uwe Dahlhaus, Thomas H ubsch
  • Patent number: 5599465
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing superconducting Josephson devices using a chemical etching solution which comprises forming a mask on a predetermined portion of a MgO substrate, and immersing the MgO substrate having the mask in an aqueous acid solution in which the volume ratio of phosphoric acid to sulfuric acid is approximately 10:1 or more, so as to form a step at the boundary between the masked region and the unmasked region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan H. Park, Jin P. Hong
  • Patent number: 5599425
    Abstract: A process for the use of organic chlorides having the general formula C.sub.x H.sub.y Cl.sub.y, C.sub.z Cl.sub.s, C.sub.r O.sub.u Cl.sub.2(r-u+1), C.sub.r O.sub.u Cl.sub.r-u+1 H.sub.r-u+1, wherein x=1-10, more preferably 1-6; y=x+1, x or x-1; z=1-10, more preferably 1-6; s=2(x+1, x or x-1), r=1-10, more preferably 2-4; u=1, 2 and up to r, as precursors for decomposition to chlorine and oxygen-containing reactive reagents for subsequent use for vapor cleaning of silicon, thermal oxidation of silicon in a range of 200.degree. C.-1200.degree. C., rapid thermal oxidation of silicon and silicon polishing or etching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignees: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Advanced Micro Devices
    Inventors: Andre Lagendijk, Damon K. DeBusk
  • Patent number: 5597684
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler represented by formula (I). The photographic material may further contain a cyan coupler represented by formula (II) or (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ikesu, Yutaka Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5597683
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a support, having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide layer. At least 50% of the total projected area of the silver halide grains in the emulsion layer is accounted for by tabular grains of an aspect ratio at least 2:1, and a compound which can be represented by formula (I) below is in at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Uchida, Shunichi Tomita, Toshio Kawagishi
  • Patent number: 5593820
    Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is described, which contains tabular silver halide grains having {100} faces as the parallel two major planes, having an aspect ratio of 2 or more and having a mean silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, in an amount of 50% or more of the total projected area of all the silver halide grains therein, and which is spectrally sensitized with a particular trimethine dye of formula (I). A photographic material having the emulsion has a high sensitivity and good storability and can be processed rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Shirai
  • Patent number: 5591569
    Abstract: This invention provides a photographic process and element where the element comprises a support bearing a light-sensitive photographic silver halide layer containing (1) a bicyclic azole coupler, (2) an azopyrazolone masking coupler, and (3) an aromatic electron-rich compound having ring substituents for which the sum of the individual Hammett sigma-para values is more negative than -0.80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Daniel L. Kapp, Janet Younathan
  • Patent number: 5591568
    Abstract: This invention provides composition and method to overcome the very high viscosity of prior small-particle dispersions when admixed with gelatin in aqueous solution for coating a photographic film element.The invention is generally accomplished by the utilization of a second surfactant in the melt formulated by the admixture of the small-particle dispersion and the gelatin solution. The surfactants of this invention, that is, utilized to control the rheology of such said melts, have the following general structure: ##STR1## wherein n=5 to 20 andx=1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Pranab Bagchi, James L. Edwards, Danuta Gibson, Thomas A. Rosiek, Brian Thomas, Vincent J. Flow, III