Patents by Inventor Kohzaburoh Yamada

Kohzaburoh Yamada 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: 5770344
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing a hydrazide compound represented by the following formula (I), (II), (I') or (II'): ##STR1## wherein the symbols in the above formulae are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohzaburoh Yamada, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toshihide Ezoe
  • Patent number: 5688630
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a hydrazine compound is described, wherein the hydrazine compound is selected from (a) a hydrazide compound having an acyl group substituted with an anionic group and with an electron-attracting group and (b) a hydrazide compound having an acyl group substituted with an electron-attracting group and with a nonionic group which forms an intramolecular hydrogen bond with a hydrogen atom in hydrazide compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohzaburoh Yamada, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Takashi Hoshimiya, Toshihide Ezoe, Shigeo Hirano, Minoru Sakai
  • Patent number: 5667936
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising at least one of hydrazide compounds represented by formula (1), (2) or (3):X.sub.1 --(R.sub.3).sub.m3 --(L.sub.2 --R.sub.2).sub.m2 --L.sub.1 --A.sub.1 --NHNH--CO--R.sub.1 (1)X.sub.21 --(R.sub.23).sub.m23 --(L.sub.22 --R.sub.22).sub.m22 --L.sub.21 --Ar--NHNH--CO--R.sub.21 (2) ##STR1## The substituents in formulae (1), (2) and (3) are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohzaburoh Yamada, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Takashi Hoshimiya, Toshiaki Kubo, Shigeo Hirano
  • Patent number: 5496693
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material excellent in color reproducibility, color forming property, color image fastness and processing dependency. The material comprises a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, said layer containing at least one yellow color forming coupler represented by general formula (I) dispersed by dissolution in a high boiling organic solvent in a weight ratio of the high boiling organic solvent to the yellow color forming coupler of 0.6 or more: ##STR1## wherein X represents an organic residue necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocycle with a nitrogen atom; Y represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; Z represents a group which is eliminatable by reaction of the coupler represented by general formula (I) with an oxidation product of a developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5459023
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a substituent; m and n each represents an integer of from 0 to 4; provided that said compound of formula (I) has a phosphonic acid ester moiety or a phosphonic acid amide moiety, wherein the carbon atom of the C-P bond contained in said moiety (i) constitutes a part of the skeleton of said compound of formula (I), said skeleton being represented by formula (A) ##STR2## or (ii) is contained in a substituent group represented by R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, or R.sub.6 ; wherein two or more of R.sub.1 to R.sub.6 may combine with said phosphonic acid ester or amide moiety to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohzaburoh Yamada, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5409807
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material excellent in color reproducibility, color forming property, color image fastness and processing dependency. The material comprises a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, said layer containing at least one yellow color forming coupler represented by general formula (I) dispersed by dissolution in a high boiling organic solvent in a weight ratio of the high boiling organic solvent to the yellow color forming coupler of 0.6 or more: ##STR1## wherein X represents an organic residue necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocycle with a nitrogen atom; Y represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; Z represents a group which is eliminatable by reaction of the coupler represented by general formula (I) with an oxidation product of a developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5362617
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprising a support provided thereon at least one layer containing a coupler represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a group represented by the following Formula (a), (b) or (c): ##STR2## wherein the groups are as defined in the specification provided that at least one of the groups represented by A, B and Z has at least one of the partial structures represented by the following Formulas (P-I) to (P-V): ##STR3## wherein the substituent groups are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Nobuo Seto, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5328818
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material includes red-, green- and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and a non-light-sensitive layer, and contains a dye of the following formula (I). The emulsion layer or the non-light-sensitive layer contains a yellow coupler of the following formula (1) or (2), or an acylacetamide type yellow coupler having an acyl group of the following formula (Y): ##STR1## where X and Y represent an electron attractive group, or when coupled with each other, XY represents an acidic nucleus, Ar represents a phenyl group or a heterocyclic group, and L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 represent a methine group, ##STR2## where X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sub.3 represents an organic group which forms a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a split-off group, ##STR3## where D.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Keiji Mihayashi, Koji Tamoto, Shigeru Shibayama, Minoru Sato, Kiyoshi Nakazyo
  • Patent number: 5118597
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one monodispersed emulsion having a particle size distribution such that a coefficient of variation with respect to a particle diameter of silver halide grains, S/r (wherein S represents a standard deviation regarding to a particle diameter and r represents an average particle diameter) is not more than about 0.25, and the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one primary compound capable of releasing, upon a reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent, a secondary compound which is capable of further releasing a development inhibitor upon a reaction with another molecule of an oxidation product of a developing agent.The silver halide color photographic material is excellent in sharpnes, graininess and color reproducibility and has a broad exposure latitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Mamoru Tashiro, Kohzaburoh Yamada
  • Patent number: 4818668
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described, containing at least one coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted ureido group or a substituted or unsubstituted acrylamino group; R.sub.2 represents substituted or unsubstituted acylamino group; L represents a group which is capable of being released from the phenolic group of formula (I) in a reaction with the oxidation product of a developing agent, and releases -O-A thereafter; n represents 0 or 1; and A represents an aromatic group including a hydroxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted amino group at least one of the 2-position and the 4-position thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Hideo Usui, Kohzaburoh Yamada
  • Patent number: 4741994
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having improved granularity and sharpness is disclosed which comprises at least one coupler represented by formula (Ia), (Ib), or (Ic). ##STR1## wherein A represents a coupler residue which can split away from the coupler by A--X bond cleavage upon reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; X represents an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; Y represents a substituent group; and n represents 0, 1, or 2, and when n is 2, the two Y's represent the same or different substituent groups, or two of substituents R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and Y represent divalent groups that combine with each other to form a ring structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Hideo Usui
  • Patent number: 4678743
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described, comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide and a coupler represented by the general formula: A-RED-P, wherein A is a coupler residue capable of cleaving RED-P on reacting with an oxidized color developing agent, P is a group capable of releasing RED after cleavage of RED-P from A, and RED is a group capable of undergoing an oxidation reduction reaction with the oxidized color developing agent only after the cleavage of A and P. This material is greatly improved in sharpness and graininess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohzaburoh Yamada, Seiji Ichijima, Hideo Usui