Patents by Inventor Munehisa Fujita

Munehisa Fujita 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: 7497107
    Abstract: A gas sensing material includes a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt. A gas inspecting method includes adhering a gas sensing material to a surface of an inspection object, wherein the gas sensing material includes a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt; and heat developing the gas sensing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Washizu, Munehisa Fujita
  • Publication number: 20050207944
    Abstract: A gas sensing material includes a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt. A gas inspecting method includes adhering a gas sensing material to a surface of an inspection object, wherein the gas sensing material includes a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt; and heat developing the gas sensing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Washizu, Munehisa Fujita
  • Publication number: 20050164117
    Abstract: A diffusion transfer film unit, containing a light-sensitive sheet, a transparent cover sheet, and a light-shielding alkaline processing composition, in which an adhesive layer and a peeling-agent layer are arranged so that they are adjacent to each other, the adhesive layer and the peeling-agent layer are disposed at a position closer to a light-exposure position than an image-receiving layer in the light-sensitive sheet or at any position in the transparent cover sheet, and the adhesive layer is disposed on the side closer to the image-receiving layer than the peeling-agent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventor: Munehisa Fujita
  • Patent number: 6727056
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tabular internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion which provides a high sensitivity and a low re-reversal negative sensitivity and a color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material comprising such an emulsion. The present invention also provides an internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion which can be prepared with a good reproducibility and a color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material less susceptible to variation of sensitivity and S/N ratio comprising such an emulsion. An internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having an average grain diameter of not less than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Atsushi Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20040033451
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tabular internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion which provides a high sensitivity and a low re-reversal negative sensitivity and a color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material comprising such an emulsion. The present invention also provides an internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion which can be prepared with a good reproducibility and a color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material less susceptible to variation of sensitivity and S/N ratio comprising such an emulsion. An internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having an average grain diameter of not less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: MUNEHISA FUJITA, ATSUSHI MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 6326132
    Abstract: A photothermographic material for laser exposure excellent in granularity and having no blocking trouble, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one image formation layer containing at least one silver halide, and at least one non-image recording protective layer provided on the side far away from the support of said image formation layer, wherein said protective layer contains a matte agent composed of an inorganic compound and an organic polymer compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichizo Toya, Munehisa Fujita
  • Patent number: 6312885
    Abstract: A photothermographic or thermographic material comprising a support having provided thereon or thereabove at least one image forming layer having its thermal expansion coefficient in the range of 1.0 to 1.5 and having provided on or above said at least one image forming layer a layer which has its thermal expansion coefficient of at least 0.9 and lower than 1.0 and comprises at least one kind of polymer latex having a glass transition temperature of not higher than a heat development temperature, said layer which has its thermal expansion coefficient of at least 0.9 and lower than 1.0 being farther from the support than the at least one image forming layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Ichizo Toya
  • Patent number: 6132949
    Abstract: The invention provides a photothermographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder on a support. A layer containing the organic silver salt has been formed by using a solid particle dispersion of the organic silver salt and a polymer latex as a main binder, preparing a coating solution of the salt and the binder in an aqueous solvent, and coating the solution, followed by drying. Coating operation is easy, and coating surface quality and photographic properties are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Akira Hatakeyama, Hisashi Okada, Naoki Asanuma
  • Patent number: 5447834
    Abstract: A color photographic material for diffusion transfer which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a combination of a reducible dye providing compound represented by the following general formula (I) and an electron donor, said reducible dye providing compound releasing a diffusing dye when reduced, wherein at least one layer of silver halide emulsion layers contains a silver halide emulsion obtained by treating a silver halide emulsion, previously chemical sensitized in the presence of a sensitizing dye, with a solid adsorbent to desorb a part or the whole of the adsorbed dye.PWR-(Time).sub.t -Dye (I)wherein PWR represents a group which releases -(Time).sub.t -Dye when reduced; Time represents a group which releases Dye through subsequent reactions after -(Time).sub.t -Dye is released from PWR; t represents an integer of 0 or 1; and Dye represents a dye or a precursor thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Hiroyuki Asanuma
  • Patent number: 5436111
    Abstract: A color diffusion transfer light-sensitive material is described including a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer associated with a dye image-forming material and an electron donor, wherein the dye image-forming material comprises at least one reducible dye-providing compound represented by formula (I) which releases a diffusible dye upon being reduced and tabular silver halide grains having a mean grain diameter of at least about 0.3 .mu.m, a mean grain thickness of less than about 0.5 .mu.m, and a mean aspect ratio of at least about 2 account for at least about 50% of the total projected area of the silver halide grains contained in at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer;PWR - (Time).sub.t - Dye (I)wherein PWR represents a group capable of releasing -(Time).sub.t -Dye upon being reduced; Time represents a group capable of releasing Dye through a subsequent reaction after being released as -(Time).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Shigeharu Urabe
  • Patent number: 5424168
    Abstract: There are disclosed an internal latent image type direct positive light-sensitive emulsions having improved spectral sensitization performance, and chemical sensitization performance, and color diffusion transfer photographic film units in which said emulsions are used. The emulsions are prepared by subjecting a silver halide grain, which forms an internal nucleus, to chemical sensitization, in the presence of an organic silver halide solvent, and adding a solid adsorbing agent, before finishing the formation of an outer shell silver halide phase, to remove a part or all of the silver halide solvent, wherein the emulsions may further contain a tabular silver halide grain having an average grain diameter of at least 0.3 .mu.m and a ratio of an average grain diameter to an average grain thickness of 2 or more, based on 50% or more of the total silver halide grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Hiroyuki Asanuma
  • Patent number: 5420004
    Abstract: An internal latent image type positive silver halide emulsion has improved sensitivity reduction in low illuminance exposures. A color diffusion transfer light-sensitive material incorporates the emulsion and has reduced sensitivity reduction. The internal latent image type positive silver halide emulsion is prepared using a polymer having a repetitive unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one thioether structure on a side chain as a deflocculating agent to form silver halide grains and subjecting the grain surfaces to a chemical sensitization in the presence of a polymer having a repetitive unit represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group and Q represents a group selected from the group consisting of groups represented by the following Formula (1) to Formula (4): ##STR2## wherein q represents an integer of 2 to 4; ##STR3## wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Toru Sano
  • Patent number: 5273866
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising: a support; at least a blue-sensitive emulsion layer, a green-sensitive emulsion layer, and a red-sensitive emulsion layer on the support, and one or more hydrophilic colloidal layers thereon containing a dispersion of microcrystals of at least one compound represented by general formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), and (VI); and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a silver density (d) of 0.4 g/cm.sup.3 or more, wherein d is N/V; where N represents the total number of grams of silver in said one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and V represents the cm.sup.3 of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Katsuro Nagaoka, Shinsuke Bando
  • Patent number: 5192649
    Abstract: A color diffusion transfer light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon light-sensitive silver halide emulsions and an electron donor in combination with reducible dye providing compounds each of which releases a diffusible dye when reduced and further a silver halide emulsion having substantially no light sensitivity in addition to the light-sensitive silver halide emulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Hirano, Munehisa Fujita, Katsuhisa Ohzeki
  • Patent number: 4806461
    Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises a dispersion medium and silver halide grains, the silver halide emulsion containing tabular silver halide grains having a thickness of less than 0.5 .mu.m, a diameter of 0.3 .mu.m or more, and a mean diameter-to-thickness ratio of 2 or more. The tabular grains occupy at least 50% of a projected area of all the silver halide grains, and 50% or more (number) of the tabular grains include 10 or more dislocations per grain. A photographic light-sensitive material comprises the aforementioned silver halide emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Ikeda, Munehisa Fujita, Shingo Ishimaru, Hiroshi Ayato, Shigeharu Urabe
  • Patent number: 4640890
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, with at least one of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing a mono-dispersed silver halide emulsion, said color photogrphic material further comprising at least one auxiliary layer containing silver halide grains having substantially light-insensitivity and containing more than 75 mole % silver chloride.The silver halide color photographic material is improved in dependence of photographic characteristics with respect to the extent of stirring of a processing solution during development processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Akio Mitsui
  • Patent number: 4626498
    Abstract: A color reversal photographic light-sensitive material is described having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layer and a layer adjacent thereto contains a silver halide emulsion of silver halide grains containing internal fog centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadanobu Shuto, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Munehisa Fujita, Kazunori Hasebe
  • Patent number: 4614707
    Abstract: A color reversal photographic light-sensitive materials comprising a base having thereon (a) at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye forming coupler and (b) a silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity provided adjacent to said light-sensitive layer, or (a) at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye forming coupler, (b) a silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity to light, and (c) an intermediate layer therebetween, wherein said intermediate layer or said silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity, or both said intermediate layer and said silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity contain at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms capable of being hydrolyzed with alkali, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Takashi Ozawa, Nobutaka Ohki
  • Patent number: 4608334
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material having improved graininess is described, comprising a support having provided thereon at least two emulsion layers that are sensitive to the same color light but have different sensitivities, wherein a light-insensitive intermediate layer comprising gelatin is provided between any two of said emulsion layers that are adjacent to each other and the higher sensitivity emulsion layer of said two layers has a smaller silver/coupler molar ratio than that of the lower sensitivity emulsion layer of said two emulsion layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadanobu Shuto, Munehisa Fujita, Kazunori Hasebe
  • Patent number: 4556633
    Abstract: Silver halide color light-sensitive materials which contain a compound having a repeating unit represented by general formula (I) and a compound represented by general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents --OR, --SR or wherein R and R' each represents a hydrogen atom, or alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a sulfoalkyl group (or a salt thereof), a carboxyalkyl group (for a salt thereof), an aralkyl group, an aryl group, or a cycloalkyl group, or R and R' may form an alkylene group or an --O-- containing alkylene ring together; R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2, Y.sub.3 and Y.sub.4 each represents a polymethylene group, an arylene group, or a cycloalkylene group, Z represents --O--, --SO.sub.2 -- or --CH.sub.2 --; and l and m each represents 0 or 1; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group; R.sub.7 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hatsumi Tanemura, Toshinao Ukai, Masaki Okazaki, Naoyasu Deguchi, Munehisa Fujita, Kiyohiko Yamamuro