Patents by Inventor Debra L. Hartsell

Debra L. Hartsell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5876905
    Abstract: A dual-coated radiographic element capable of producing a viewable image when heated following imagewise exposure is disclosed comprised of, on opposite sides of a transparent film, layer units containing radiation-sensitive radiation-sensitive silver halide grains, a light-insensitive source of silver, and a reducing agent for said light-insensitive reducible source of silver. Greater than 50 percent of total projected area of said silver halide grains being provided by tabular grains (a) having {100} major faces, (b) containing greater than 70 mole percent chloride, based on silver, (c) exhibiting an average thickness of less than 0.3 .mu.m, and (d) exhibiting an average equivalent circular diameter of greater than 0.6 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mark E. Irving, David H. Levy, Lyn M. Eshelman, Debra L. Hartsell
  • Patent number: 5840475
    Abstract: An element is disclosed containing a photothermographic layer capable of providing a retained viewable image when imagewise exposed and heated. The Layer contains a high chloride {100} tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David H. Levy, Lyn M. Eshelman, Mark E. Irving, Debra L. Hartsell
  • Patent number: 5356764
    Abstract: A color photographic element having a support bearing at least one radiation sensitive emulsion layer comprising dispersing medium and silver halide grains is disclosed. The emulsion layer is a tabular grain silver halide emulsion layer Wherein at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by tabular grains (a) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10, (b) each having an aspect ratio of at least 2, and (c) internally at their nucleation site, containing iodide and at least 50 mole percent chloride. The emulsion layer has in reactive association an image dye-forming compound and a compound that contains a photographically useful group and is capable of reacting with oxidized developing agent to thereby release such group. A process for preparing the radiation sensitive tabular grain silver halide emulsions is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Gary L. House, Thomas B. Brust, Debra L. Hartsell, Donald L. Black, Anne E. Bohan, James P. Merrill
  • Patent number: 5320938
    Abstract: Silver halide emulsions are disclosed in which at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by tabular grains (1) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10, (2) each having an aspect ratio of at least 2, and (3) internally at their nucleation site containing iodide and at least 50 mole percent chloride. The emulsions are prepared by a process comprised of the steps of (a) introducing silver and halide salts into a dispersing medium so that nucleation of the tabular grains occurs in the presence of iodide with chloride accounting for at least 50 mole percent of the halide present in the dispersing medium and the pCl of the dispersing medium being maintained in the range of from 0.5 to 3.5 and (b) following nucleation completing grain growth under conditions that maintain the {100} major faces of the tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gary L. House, Thomas B. Brust, Debra L. Hartsell, Donald L. Black, Michael G. Antoniades, Jerzy A. Budz, Yun C. Chang, Roger Lok, Sherrill A. Puckett, Allen K. Tsaur