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: 5360711
    Abstract: A sliver halide color photographic material compriseing a support having at least one layer containing at least one a compound of the formula (I), (II) or (III). ##STR1## n=0, 1, or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Negoro, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5352572
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a combination of at least one yellow dye-forming coupler of the following general formula (1) with at least one discoloration inhibitor of special amide, phosphorus or hydrazine compound type to prevent the dye images, especially the yellow dye image, formed therein from discoloring or changing their colors; ##STR1## wherein X.sup.3 represents an organic residue completing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclyl group together with ##STR2## Y represents an aromatic or heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group capable of splitting off when the coupler represented by the foregoing formula reacts with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Akira Ogawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5352573
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having an improved color forming property, color reproducibility and image preservative performance is described. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising (a) a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following formulas (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein Za, Zb, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and X represent substituents described herein; (b) a compound represented by the following formula (A): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.a1 -R.sub.a6 represent substituents described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Makoto Suzuki, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5348845
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color image-stabilization processing solution for a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one of (a) an N-methylol compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to form a 1H-pyrazole ring or 1H-1,2,4-triazole ring together with the nitrogen atom;and (b) an N-methylol compound satisfying the condition that an equilibrium constant in water at room temperature is 2.times.10.sup.-2 mol/liter or less and a formaldehyde-releasing rate constant is 1.times.10.sup.-5 sec.sup.-1 or more. This solution permits one to dispense formaldehyde and its attendant risks. Also disclosed is a method for processing silver halide color photographic materials using such a solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Yoshihiro Fujita, Shigeru Nakamura, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 5342747
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler and a specific lipophilic compound. The color photographic material have improved color reproducibility and preservability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5334493
    Abstract: A photographic processing solution for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and a processing method using the same is disclosed. The photographic processing solution comprises formaldehyde and an amine compound having at least one --NH-- group in the --NH-- equivalent amount per liter of the photographic processing solution being greater than the molar concentration of formaldehyde in the photographic processing solution. The photographic processing solution is stable and has a reduced formaldehyde vapor pressure. The processing method provides excellent image stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Fujita, Masakazu Morigaki, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Shigeru Nakamura, Morio Yagihara, Hiroyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5330888
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer. At least one layer of silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler of formula (I) or (II) and at least one lipophilic compound selected from the group consisting of phenol compounds of formula (A), sulfur peroxide compounds of formula (B) and amide compounds of formula (C): ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5300419
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one cyan dye forming coupler of the following general formula (C-1) and at least one compound of the following general formula (I) in the same layer of the material: ##STR1## where R.sub.0 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;X represents a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split off by a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; andAr represents an aromatic group; ##STR2## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent an aliphatic group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may be bonded to each other to form a 5-membered to 8-membered ring along with the nitrogen atom in the formula;the compound of formula (I) may form a dimer or a higher polymer at the position of R.sub.1, R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Masakazu Morigaki, Hidekazu Sakai, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Shigeru Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5294530
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon one or more hydrophilic colloid layers, at least one layer which is a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing in the same layer a color coupler selected from a yellow coupler and a cyan coupler and at least one anti-fading agent represented by formula (I): ##STR1## The novel anti-fading agent effectively prevents yellow and cyan dye images from fading or discoloration, and does not adversely affect other photographic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5278039
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a color image which does not discolor for a long period of time and having a high preservation property. The light-sensitive material contains a novel anti-fading agent represented by following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, or an aliphatic oxy group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be the same or different and each represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, and a heterocyclic group; R.sub.4 represents a substituent; R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 each represent a hydrogen atom and a substituent; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, and R.sub.4 and R.sub.2 may be combined with each other to form a 5- to 8-membered ring, and a dimer or other polymer may be formed with R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 ; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8, and R.sub.8 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5270148
    Abstract: A processing solution for a silver halide color photographic material, wherein said solution contains at least one kind of a compound represented by formula (I) and at least one kind of a compound represented by formula (A); ##STR1## wherein X represents a nonmetallic atomic group necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ring; ##STR2## wherein X.sub.0 represents a non metallic atomic group necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ring; and R.sub.a and R.sub.b, which may be same or different, each represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group and R.sub.a and R.sub.b may be bonded each other to form a 4- to 8-membered ring, and a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with the above processing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Shigeru Nakamura, Yoshihiro Fujita, Hiroshi Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 5262377
    Abstract: A thermal transfer dye donating material comprising a support having thereon a dye donating layer which contains a thermo-mobile dye, wherein the thermo-mobile dye is a dye which can be represented by the general formula (I) indicated below.A--(L--B).sub.q (I)In this formula, A represents a dye residue which has an absorbance in the visible region and/or infrared region, L represents a divalent linking group or a simple bond, and B represents an atomic grouping which has the effect of suppressing the fading of the dye. Moreover, q is 1 or 2, and when q is 2, L and B may be the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Mitsugu Tanaka, Masakazu Morigaki, Seiiti Kubodera
  • Patent number: 5254433
    Abstract: A dye fixing element to which a diffusible dye is transferable, the dye having been formed or released during development, either after or at the same time as imagewise exposure of a photosensitive element, which photosensitive element comprises a photosensitive silver halide, a binder and a dye providing compound which forms or releases a diffusible dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to the exposure, wherein the dye fixing element comprises at least one compound represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and X are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshisada Nakamura, Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5242785
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains (1) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the general formula (I), (II) or (III) and dimers or higher polymers containing at least one moiety derived from the compounds, and (2) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of organic color fading preventing agents represented by the general formula (IV) and dimers or higher polymers containing at least one moiety derived from the agents, organic metal complexes containing copper, cobalt, nickel, palladium or platinum as the central metal and having at least one organic ligand having at least one conformation and dimers or higher polymers containing at least one moiety derived from the complexes: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.30 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5217852
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color image-stabilization processing solution for a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one of (a) an N-methylol compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to form a 1H-pyrazole ring or 1H-1,2,4-triazole ring together with the nitrogen atom; and (b) an N-methylol compound satisfying the condition that an equilibrium constant in water at room temperature is 2.times.10.sup.-2. mol/liter or less and a formaldehyde-releasing rate constant is 1.times.10.sup.-5 sec.sup.-1 or more. This solution permits one to dispense formaldehyde and its attendant risks. Also disclosed is a method for processing silver halide color photographic materials using such a solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Yoshihiro Fujita, Shigeru Nakamura, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 5212055
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a dispersion of silver halide grains in a binder, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains (a) at least one coupler represented by formula (I), (b) at least one compound represented by the formula (II), and (c) at least one compound represented by formula (III), and the photographic material contains (d) at least one compound represented by formulae (IV), (V) or (VI): ##STR1## wherein R, Y, Za, Zb and Zc each is as defined in the specification; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, and R.sub.7 each is as defined in the specification ##STR3## wherein R.sub.11, R.sub.12 and R.sub.13, R.sub.14, R.sub.15, R.sub.16 and R.sub.17 each is as defined in the specification; ##STR4## wherein R.sub.21, R.sub.22 A, B, X, Y.sub.1 and n each is as defined in the specification; andR.sub.30 --Z (VI)R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Nobuo Seto, Kozo Aoki
  • Patent number: 5194348
    Abstract: Disclosed in a color photograph containing a storability-improving compound capable of forming a chemical bond with an aromatic amine series color developing agent that remains in a photographic material after having been processed for color development to give a chemically inactive and substantially colorless compound in at least one photographic layer on a support. Also disclosed is a method for preparation of color photographs wherein a photographic material containing a silver halide emulsion layer and a color image-forming coupler capable of forming a dye by an oxidation-coupling reaction with an aromatic amine series color developing agent, as coated on a support, is imagewise exposed to light and then subjected to photographic processing, comprising carrying out the photographic processing in the presence of the afore described storability-improving compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Nobuo Seto, Osamu Takahashi, Hideaki Naruse
  • Patent number: 5192650
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon a photographic layer containing at least one compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.01, R.sub.02 and R.sub.03, which may be the same or different, represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.01 and R.sub.02, R.sub.02 and R.sub.03, and R.sub.01 and R.sub.03 may be combined with each other, provided that all of R.sub.01, R.sub.02 and R.sub.03 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; each of X.sub.01, X.sub.02 and X.sub.03, which may be the same or different, represents a mere bond, --O--, --S-- or ##STR2## and R.sub.04 has the same meaning as R.sub.01.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5190853
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed. The photosensitive material comprises a support and a hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a yellow coupler. According to the present invention, the layer further contains a color image stabilizer in an amount of 10 to 200 mole % based on the amount of the yellow coupler. The color image stabilizer and the yellow coupler are together contained in droplets of a medium which are dispersed in the layer. The color image stabilizer is an organic compound having the following formula [I] or [II]: ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinyl group, a phosphoryl group, a carbamoyl group or a sulfamoyl group; each of R.sup.5 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5178991
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided, containing at least one coupler represented by formula (C-I) and at least one compound represented by formula (A-I) or (A-II) ##STR1## wherein Q.sub.1 represents an atomic group containing at least one nitrogen atom required to form a 5- or more membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring together with the carbon atoms to which it is bonded; Z.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-off group; R.sub.C1 represents an acyl or sulfonyl group; and R.sub.C2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1-8 aliphatic group, or the substituents for R.sub.C1, R.sub.C2, Z.sub.1, or Q.sub.1 form a dimeric or polymeric coupler; ##STR2## wherein R represents a hydrogen atoms, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, or a hydrolyzable protective group; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Kozo Aoki