Patents by Inventor Masanao Hinata

Masanao Hinata 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: 4308345
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion selectively spectrally sensitized, particularly to red light, with a combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 each represents the atoms necessary to form a benzothiazole nucleus or a benzoselenazole nucleus, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 l each represents an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group, wherein at least one of R.sup.1 or R.sup.2 should represent a sulfo group-containing substituted alkyl group, a carboxyalkyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group, R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group, X.sub.1 represents an acid anion, and m represents 1 or 2, wherein m equals 1 when the dye forms an intramolecular salt (betaine-like structure); at least one sensitizing dye represented by general formula (II): ##STR2## wherein Z.sup.3 represents a sulfur atom or a selenium atom, Z.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Atsuo Iwamoto, Jun Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4307185
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion spectrally sensitized with a sensitizing combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by General formula (I), at least one sensitizing dye represented by General formula (II) and at least one sensitizing dye represented by General formula (III): ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 each is the atoms necessary to form a benzothiazole nucleus or a benzoselenazole nucleus, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each is an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group, wherein at least one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is a substituted alkyl group having a sulfo group, R.sup.3 is an alkyl group, X.sub.1 is an acid anion and m is 1 or 2 and when the dye forms an intermolecular salt (betaine like structure), m is 1; ##STR2## wherein Z.sup.3 is a sulfur atom or a selenium atom, Z.sup.4 is the atoms necessary to form a benzothiazole nucleus, a benzoselenazole nucleus, a naphtho[1,2-d]thiazole nucleus or a naphtho[1,2-d]selenazole nucleus, R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Atsuo Iwamoto, Jun Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4199360
    Abstract: A method of spectrally sensitizing a photographic light-sensitive emulsion where a water-soluble solution, prepared by dissolving a methine dye having at least one water-soluble group in water in the presence of a "Red Shift Compound", as hereinafter defined, is added to a photographic light-sensitive emulsion to provide a photographic light-sensitive emulsion spectrally sensitized with increased sensitizing efficiency and with reduced fog. The disadvantages caused by the use of high organic solvent contents are avoided and photographic light-sensitive emulsions suitable for high-speed coating are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Yuji Mihara, Tadao Shishido, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4172730
    Abstract: Silver halide radiographic sensitive materials comprising at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer on a support, which are used according to a process which comprises exposure to radiation from a fluorescent intensifying screen which emits light having a maximum emission in the green spectral range by excitation with radiation wherein at least 1/2 of the emission energy is in the wavelength range of above about 400 nm, and carrying out development of the exposed sensitive material to form radiographic images, wherein said silver halide sensitive materials contain below about 8.6 g of silver per square meter and said at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer contains a combination of at least one dye represented by formula (I) and at least one dye represented by formula (II): ##STR1## wherein A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; A.sub.3 and A.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group or a phenyl group; B.sub.1, B.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Nobuaki Miyasaka, Kenji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4154616
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I), ##STR1## in which Z represents an atomic group necessary for forming a benzoxazole nucleus or a naphthoxazole nucleus; R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group; R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an allyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.3 represents a 2-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-ethyl group, a 2-(2-acyloxyethyoxy)-ethyl group, an N-(N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl)carbamoylalkyl group, an N-(N,N,N-trialkylammoniumalkyl)carbamoylalkyl group or an N,N,N-trialkylammoniumalkyl group; X represents an acid anion; and n represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Akira Ogawa, Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4138266
    Abstract: A method of spectrally sensitizing a photographic light-sensitive emulsion where a water-soluble solution, prepared by dissolving a methine dye having at least one water-soluble group in water in the presence of a "Red Shift Compound", as hereinafter defined, is added to a photographic light-sensitive emulsion to provide a photographic light-sensitive emulsion spectrally sensitized with increased sensitizing efficiency and with reduced fog. The disadvantages caused by the use of high organic solvent contents are avoided and photographic light-sensitive emulsions suitable for high-speed coating are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Yuji Mihara, Tadao Shishido, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4135933
    Abstract: A supersensitized silver halide photographic emulsion containing a cyan coupler and, in combination, at least one of the sensitizing dyes represented by the following general formula (I) and at least one of the sensitizing dyes represented by the general formula (II): ##STR1## WHEREIN W.sup.1 and W.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an acyl group or an aryl group; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a sulfoalkyl group; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group or an allyl group; X.sub.1 represents an acid anion; and m is 1 or 2, m being 1 in the case that the dye forms an inner salt of a betaine-like structure; ##STR2## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 each represents an atomic group required for forming a benzothiazole nucleus, a benzoselenazole nucleus, a .beta.-naphthothiazole nucleus or a .beta.-naphthoselenazole nucleus; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represents an aliphatic group and at least one of R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Atsuo Iwamoto, Jun Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4057430
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I), ##STR1## in which Z represents an atomic group necessary for forming a benzoxazole nucleus or a naphthoxazole nucleus; R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group; R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an allyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.3 represents an alkoxycarbonylalkyl group, an alkoxyalkyl group, an N-(N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl)carbamoylalkyl group, an N-(N,N,N-trialkylammoniumalkyl)carbamoylalkyl group or an N,N,N-trialkylammoniumalkyl group, with R.sub.2 being a phenyl group where R.sub.3 is an alkoxycarbonylalkyl group; X represents an acid anion; and n represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Akira Ogawa, Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4053318
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one spectral sensitizing dye represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z is an atomic group necessary for completing a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, R.sub.1 is an aliphatic group, R.sub.2 is an aliphatic group having an alkylthio group or an aliphatic group having two alkoxy groups on the same carbon atom, R.sub.3 is an aryl group, an alkyl group or an alkenyl group, R.sub.4 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, and m and n are 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Akira Ogawa, Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4047964
    Abstract: A supersensitized silver halide photographic emulsion which contains at least one dye of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 represents the atoms necessary to complete a benzisoxazole ring; Q.sup.1 represents the atoms necessary to complete a 2-thiooxazolidine-2,4-dione ring, a rhodanine ring or a 2-thiohydantoin ring; and R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic group, in combination with at least one cyanine dye or merocyanine dye which contains no benzisoxazole ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Akira Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4046572
    Abstract: An improved silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one photographic emulsion layer containing a dicarbocyanine dye having two heterocyclic nuclei which are 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing nuclei and which are connected to each other at the carbon atom in the 2- or 4-position thereof through a pentamethine chain, which can be substituted in the meso-position, a nitrogen atom of one nitrogen-containing heterocyclic nucleus of said carbocyanine dye being substituted by a sulfo- or carboxy-containing alkyl group, and a nitrogen atom of the other nitrogen-containing heterocyclic nucleus being substituted by an aralkyl group or an aryloxyalkyl group, with the proviso that said aralkyl and aryloxyalkyl groups are not substituted by a sulfo group or a carboxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Yuji Mihara, Akira Sato, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4040833
    Abstract: In a process for forming radiographic images which comprises exposing a photograhic sensitive material comprising a support and at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer to radiation from a fluorescent intensifying screen to form a latent image and thereafter developing the same, the improvement which comprises the fluorescent intensifying screen having a maximum emission wavelength in the range of about 500 to about 570 nm and a distribution such that at least about 1/2 of the emission energy is at a wavelength of above about 400 nm, and said silver halide photographic emulsion layer contains at least one sensitizing dye represented by formula (I) and at least one sensitizing dye represented by formula (II): ##STR1## WHEREIN R.sub.o represents an alkyl group and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent an alkyl group but at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Nobuaki Miyasaka, Kenji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4040839
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I) and at least one sensitizing dye of general formulae (II) and/or (III), in an amount effective to achieve supersensitization: ##STR1## wherein V.sup.1 and V.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, trifluoromethyl, cyano, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, aminosulfonyl or alkylsulfonyl; W.sup.1 and W.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, acyloxy or phenyl; R.sup.1 represents alkyl or substituted alkyl; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, each represents alkyl or substituted alkyl, and at least one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents 1 or 0; substituted alkyl containing a carboxy or sulfo radical; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, each has the same meanings as R.sup.1 ; X.sup.- represents an acid anion; and m represents ##STR2## wherein V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Matsuyama, Masanao Hinata, Akira Sato
  • Patent number: 4040841
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion spectrally sensitized in the relatively shorter wavelength region ranging from blue to green with a supersensitizing combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## WHEREIN Z.sup.1 represents the atoms necessary to form a benzimidazole ring, an oxazole ring, a benzoxazole ring or a naphthoxazole ring; Z.sup.2 represents the atoms necessary to form a thiazole ring, a benzothiazole ring, a naphthothiazole ring, a selenazole ring, a benzoselenazole ring or a naphthoselenazole ring; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an aliphatic group containing up to 8 carbon atoms, which may be unsubstituted or substituted, and the carbon chain of which may be interrupted with an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group containing up to 3 carbon atoms, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; X.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Tadashi Ikeda, Atsuo Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 4039335
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion spectrally sensitized with a combination of sensitizing dyes consisting essentially of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula [I] and at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula [II] in supersensitizing amounts: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each is an alkyl group, R.sup.3 is an alkyl group, X.sub.1 is an acidic anion, m is 1 or 2, and m is 1 when the dye forms an intramolecular salt (betaine-like structure). ##STR2## WHEREIN Z.sup.1 is a sulfur atom or a selenium atom, Z.sup.2 is an atomic group necessary to form a benzothiazole ring, a benzoselenazole ring, a naphtho[1,2-d]thiazole ring or a naphtho[1,2-d]selenazole ring, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 is an alkyl group, R.sup.6 is an alkyl group, a phenyl group, an aralkyl group, a furyl group or a thienyl group, X.sub.2 is an acidic anion, n is 1 or 2, and n is 1 when the dye forms an intramolecular salt (betaine-like structure).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Atsuo Iwamoto, Jun Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4028115
    Abstract: A spectrally sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion containing, in combination, four carbocyanine sensitizing dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Atsuo Iwamoto, Jun Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4021247
    Abstract: A method for dispersing organic compounds which are substantially insoluble in water and are used in photographic materials, such as chemical sensitizers (except spectral sensitizing dyes), antifoggants, antioxidants, ultraviolet absorbents, color couplers, coating aids, hardening agents, etc., effectively in a silver halide photosensitive emulsion comprising dissolving the organic compounds in an acid having a pKa of not over about 5, such as methanesulfonic acid, ethanesulfonic acid, etc., and adding the solution to the silver halide photosensitive emulsion directly or after dispersing in an aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Yuji Mihara
  • Patent number: 4021251
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic emulsions which contain at least one sensitizing dye represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of atoms necessary to form a benzisoxazole nucleus; R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group; R.sub.2 represents an aliphatic group or an aryl group; and R.sub.3 represents an aryl group or an alkenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Akira Ogawa, Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4018610
    Abstract: A spectrally sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion containing, in combination, supersensitizing amounts of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 each represents an atomic group necessary for completing a benzimidazole nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a benzoxazole nucleus, a naphthoxazole nucleus, a thiazole nucleus, a benzothiazole nucleus, a naphthothiazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus, a benzoselenazole nucleus or a naphthoselenazole nucleus excepting that both of Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 do not simultaneously represent an atomic group necessary for completing an oxazole nucleus, a benzoxazole nucleus or a naphthoxazole nucleus; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an aliphatic group which may be substituted and the carbon chain of which may be interrupted with an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sup.0 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aralkyl group; X.sub.(1).sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Haruo Takei, Akira Sato, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4015989
    Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least one emulsion layer unit comprising;A. a hydrophilic colloid layer containing spontaneously developable silver halide grains which are associated with a coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amino color developing agent to provide a dye and which are rendered substantially light-insensitive with a desensitizer, andB. an adjacent negative type light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer associated with a compound capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amino color developer to release a diffusible development inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Oishi, Masanao Hinata