Patents by Inventor Masakazu Morigaki

Masakazu Morigaki 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: 6670112
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon one or more layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one coupler which undergoes a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine developer to form a dye, wherein at least one of the layer(s) on said support comprises at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 represents a linear or branched unsubstituted alkenyl group having 3-14 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a linear or branched unsubstituted alkenyl group having 3-14 carbon atoms, R3 represents a group capable of being substituted on the benzene ring, and m represents an integer from 0 to 4. This may be use as a light-sensitive material which can provide a stable color-image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Publication number: 20030194663
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon one or more layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one coupler which undergoes a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine developer to form a dye, wherein at a least one of the layer(s) on said support comprises at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6495313
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon: at least one yellow-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one magenta-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; and at least one light-insensitive non-color-forming hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one layer of said at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one cyan-dye-forming coupler having a pKa of not more than 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Shin Soejima, Osamu Takahashi, Naoki Saito, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6462199
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material that is improved in such aspects as fastness of dye images, color reproduction, cyan stain, processing cyan color contamination, and the like, by the combination use of a phenidone compound having a specific structure as in the following general formula (VIII) and a pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler. The phenidone compound (VIII) can be produced industrially in low cost, by reacting an &agr;-alkyl or alkenyl acrylate with a compound represented by the following general formula (VII): wherein, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9, each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or the like; R2a represents an alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Shin Soejima, Osamu Takahashi, Naoki Saito, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6433223
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains the compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; X represents a water-soluble group; and R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having the sum total of from 14 to 40 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxyl group, —NR3R4 (R3 and R4 each independently represents an alkyl group having from I to 40 carbon atoms, a hydrogen atom, or an aryl group), a bicycloalkyl group, a bicycloalkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group or a heterocyclic group, provided that when X represents a quaternary ammonium salt structure, R2 does not represent an alkyl group having from 14 to 17 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6258521
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material that is improved in such aspects as fastness of dye images, color reproduction, cyan stain, processing cyan color contamination, and the like, by the combination use of a phenidone compound having a specific structure as in the following general formula (VIII) and a pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler. The phenidone compound (VIII) can be produced industrially in low cost, by reacting an &agr;-alkyl or alkenyl acrylate with a compound represented by the following general formula (VII): wherein, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9, each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or the like; R2a represents an alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Shin Soejima, Osamu Takahashi, Naoki Saito, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Publication number: 20010004512
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon: at least one yellow-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one magenta-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; and at least one light-insensitive non-color-forming hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one layer of said at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one cyan-dye-forming coupler having a pKa of not more than 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
    Inventors: YASUHIRO YOSHIOKA, SHIN SOEJIMA, OSAMU TAKAHASHI, NAOKI SAITO, HISASHI MIKOSHIBA, MASAKAZU MORIGAKI
  • Patent number: 6220925
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a coupler represented by the formula (1) shown below and a non-color forming colorless cyclic imide compound having a diffusion-resistant group: wherein R1 and R2 each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R3, R4 and R5 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; Z represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to form a saturated ring; R6 represents a substituent; X represents a heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group or an aryl group and Y represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon color development. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has an excellent color forming property to provide a color image of high maximum color density and good color reproducibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Masakazu Morigaki, Shin Soejima, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6180818
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 6132946
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon one or more layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one coupler which undergoes a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine developer to form a dye, wherein at least one of the layer(s) on said support comprises at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a linear or branched unsubstituted alkenyl group having 3-14 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a linear or branched unsubstituted alkenyl group having 3-14 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 represents a group capable of being substituted on the benzene ring, and m represents an integer from 1 to 4. This may be use as a light-sensitive material which can provide a stable color-image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6132945
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains a coupler represented by formula (1) shown below and a non-color forming colorless carboxylic acid compound having a diffusion-resistant group or a salt thereof: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; Z represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to form a saturated ring; R.sup.6 represents a substituent; X represents a heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group or an aryl group and Y represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon color development.The silver halide color photographic material has an excellent color forming property to provide a color image of high maximum color density and good color reproducibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Masakazu Morigaki, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Shin Soejima, Osamu Takahashi, Hisashi Mikoshiba
  • Patent number: 6114570
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 6103460
    Abstract: A sliver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan dye forming coupler represented by the formula (1) shown below, at least one compound represented by the formula (A) shown below and at least one compound represented by the formula (D) shown below: ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.a and Z.sup.b each represents --C(R.sup.3).dbd. or --N=, provided that one of Z.sup.a and Z.sup.b is --N= and the other is --C(R.sup.3).dbd.; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an electron attractive group having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of 0.20 or more and the sum of the .sigma..sub.p values of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is 0.65 or more; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; and group represented by R.sup.1, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Shin Soejima, Yasuhiro Shimada, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6057090
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which contains the compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; X represents a water-soluble group; and R.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having the sum total of from 14 to 40 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxyl group, --NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 (R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, a hydrogen atom, or an aryl group), a bicycloalkyl group, a bicycloalkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group or a heterocyclic group, provided that when X represents a quaternary ammonium salt structure, R.sup.2 does not represent an alkyl group having from 14 to 17 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 6030755
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming method in which a light-sensitive element having at least three light-sensitive layers on a support is imagewisely exposed and the light-sensitive element is superposed on a processing element in the presence of water in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.0 times of the amount necessary for maximally swelling the total coated layers of the light-sensitive element and the processing element, and the both elements are heated to develop an image on the light-sensitive element. The formed image is outputted to a separate recording material. The developed light-sensitive element is superposed on a dye forming reaction inhibiting sheet and heated to stabilize the light-sensitive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5851754
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 5840886
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; the silver halide photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (II), the variables of which are defined in the specification: ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5728514
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one yellow coloring light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta coloring light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one cyan coloring light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said yellow coloring light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one dye-forming coupler represented by formula (Y) and at least one non-coloring compound represented by formula (A) or (B): ##STR1## with the substituents as defined herein the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Hiroo Takizawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5719007
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described, which comprises a support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein one or more of the above layers contains at least one compound represented by formula (A-I), (A-II), (A-III), (A-IV) or (A-V) and one or more of the above layers contains at least one compound represented by formula (H): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5719018
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material is disclosed comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing at least one yellow dye forming coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z represents a nonmetallic atom group necessary for forming a 5-membered ring represented by formula (II-1) or (II-2): ##STR2## and the remaining substituents are as defined herein the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiji Katsumata, Hiroo Takizawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Masakazu Morigaki