Patents by Inventor Noboru Fujimori

Noboru Fujimori 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: 4609617
    Abstract: A support for photographic use comprising a polyester film with at least one surface having a layer provided by coating with an aqueous coating composition, the coating composition comprising a copolymer containing (a) from about 0.01% to about 70% by weight glycidyl acrylate or glycidyl methacrylate with an expoxy-ring-opening ratio of the glycidyl group to the whole amount of epoxy rings of from 5 to 35 mole %; and (b) a monomer polymerizable with the glycidyl group selected from the group consisting of alkylacrylic acid ester, an alkylmethacrylic acid ester, an acrylamide, an N-alkylacrylamide, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, styrene, a styrene derivative, a vinyl ether, a vinyl ester, a diolefin or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Yamazaki, Takanori Nakadate, Kenichi Kitahara, Morio Kobayashi, Noboru Fujimori, Ryuji Shimosaki
  • Patent number: 4576911
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a magenta dye-forming polymeric coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Mizukura, Noboru Fujimori, Kosaku Masuda, Shinji Yoshimoto, Noriki Tachibana, Eiichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 4571379
    Abstract: Photographic support having coated over a polyester support as a subbing layer a specific aqueous copolymer composition, said subbing layer being formed by coating aqueous composition containing copolymer substantially composed of a specific combination of three or four monomer components. Said photographic support has firm adhesive property, good flatness and other advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Yamazaki, Takanori Nakadate, Kenichi Kitahara, Noboru Fujimori, Morio Kobayashi, Ryuji Shimosaki
  • Patent number: 4517284
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that the said silver halide comprises silver halide grains containing at least 80 molar % of silver chloride and at least one of merocyanine dyes having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 individually represent an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group provided that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is an alkyl or aryl group having a sulfo group; R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 individually represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group or a phenyl group and any one pair of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, R.sub.1 and R.sub.6 or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 may joint each other to form a ring; X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a selenium atom; and Y is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a selenium atom provided that at least one of X and Y represents a selenium atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kagawa, Noboru Fujimori, Shigeo Tanaka, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4500631
    Abstract: A radiographic image forming process comprising imagewise exposing a negative type silver halide light-sensitive photographic material in combination with a fluorescent intensifying screen to radiation and then treating said material with a processing solution, said material comprising a support and constituent layers coated on both sides of said support, said layers containing(a) light sensitive silver halide particles,(b) metallic salt particles which are not light-sensitive and, when untreated, are more soluble in said processing solution than said silver halide particles, said metallic salt particles having been treated so that the surface thereof has been rendered less soluble than said silver halide by a dissolution retarder,(c) physical development nuclei, and(d) compounds selected from water soluble dyes having absorption maxima in an aqueous solution of from 400 to 600 nm or compounds selected from said water soluble dyes coupled to a non-diffusive mordant, andsaid processing solution containing at l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Sakamoto, Mikio Kawasaki, Kouji Ono, Kakujulo Fukuoji, Noboru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 4469785
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one layer of a negative working silver halide on a support, comprising the negative working silver halide comprises at least 80 mole % of silver chloride, and being color sensitized with at least one kind of sensitizing dyes having the local maximum value of spectral sensitivity in the wavelength region from 445 nm to 490 nm and at least one kind of sensitizing dyes having the local maximum value of spectral sensitivity in the wavelength region from 420 nm to less than 445 nm.The photographic material according to this invention exhibits excellent color reproducibility and quick process suitability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Tanaka, Kaoru Onodera, Noboru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 4440852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, and particularly to a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing a hydrophilic colloidal layer dyed by a dye useful as a light-absorbing dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Onishi, Noboru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 4427764
    Abstract: Light sensitive silver halide materials with a protective layer have improved slidableness and scratch resistance properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriki Tachibana, Morio Kobayashi, Noboru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 4232118
    Abstract: A photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a mixture of monomethinecyanine dyes is disclosed. The mixture is particularly suitable for minimizing fog in the finished product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Okauchi, Takeo Koitabashi, Noboru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 4173483
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material for use in flash exposure of less than 1/10000 second comprising 10.sup.-8 to 5.times.10.sup.-7 moles/moles of silver halide of at least one compound belonging to Group VIII of the Periodic Table and at least one of the sensitizing dyes of the following formulas (I) or (II) and which is capable of sensitizing silver halide at less than 550 nm: ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, Q, X.sup.(-), Z, Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, n, n.sub.1, n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1979
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teiji Habu, Tomio Nakajima, Eiichi Sakamoto, Noboru Fujimori, Kiyomitsu Mine
  • Patent number: 4160669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic emulsion and particularly to a silver halide photographic emulsion spectrally sensitized for argon laser beam exposure having an improved high spectral sensitivity to flash exposure using flash rays having main emission peaks at wave lengths of 514.5 nm, 488.0 nm and 476.5 nm (argon laser rays).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Inventors: Teiji Habu, Tomio Nakajima, Eiichi Sakamoto, Noboru Fujimori, Kiyomitsu Mine
  • Patent number: 4147547
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having improved anti-fogging properties is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Koitabashi, Noboru Fujimori, Shigemasa Itoh
  • Patent number: 4147542
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material for use in flash exposure of less than 1/10000 second comprising 10.sup.-8 to 5.times. 10.sup.-7 moles/moles of silver halide of at least one compound belonging to Group VIII of the Periodic Table and at least one of the sensitizing dyes of the following formulas (I) or (II) and which is capable of sensitizing silver halide at less than 55 nm:General Formula I ##STR1## General Formula II ##STR2## WHEREIN R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, Q, X.sup.(-), Z, Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, n, n.sub.1, n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teiji Habu, Tomio Nakajima, Eiichi Sakamoto, Noboru Fujimori, Kiyomitsu Mine
  • Patent number: 4144070
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material containing at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by the following general formula (I) and at least one compound selected from compounds represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR1## General formula (I) wherein Z represents a non-metal atomic group necessary for forming a pyrroline, thiazoline or selenazoline ring, Y.sub.1 represents oxygen, sulfur, selenium or an N-R.sub.3 group (in which R.sub.3 represents an alkyl-, alkenyl- or aryl-group), R represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 individually represent an alkyl-, alkenyl- or aryl-group; General formula (II) ##STR2## wherein P represents ##STR3## (in which R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 individually represent an alkyl-, alkenyl- or aryl-group), Y.sub.2 represents oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or an >N-R.sub.7 group (in which R.sub.7 represents an alkyl-, alkenyl- or aryl-group), and R.sub.4 represents an alkyl-, alkenyl- or aryl-group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Matsumoto, Toshio Nagatani, Noboru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 4134767
    Abstract: A method of bleaching an imagewise exposed and then developed silver halide photosensitive material for color photography wherein said material contains a red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having at least one of a particular group of compounds and treating said photosensitive material with a bleaching or bleach-fixing solution containing an organic metal chelate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaiichiro Sakazume, Noboru Fujimori, Eiichi Sakamoto, Hidehiko Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 4121935
    Abstract: A lith-type silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for forming halftone dot images is disclosed which contains a sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## WHEREIN Z.sub.1 is an atomic group necessary for forming a naphthothiazole ring, Z.sub.2 is an atomic group necessary for forming a member selected from a group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted, benzothiazole, benzoselenazole, naphthothiazole and naphthoselenazole nucleus, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are respectively a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, X.sup..theta. is an anion, and n is a positive integer of 1 or 2 with the proviso that when the dye is an inner salt, n is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Nishina, Teiji Habu, Tomio Nakajima, Akio Oshima, Eiichi Sakamoto, Noboru Fujimori, Kiyomitsu Mine, Hiroo Toya
  • Patent number: 4108668
    Abstract: Novel light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials comprising at least one sensitizing dye having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a non-metallic atom group necessary for completing a three membered heterocyclic ring, R represents an alkyl or a substituted alkyl radical, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent hydrogen atoms or lower alkyl radicals, R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxyl radical, m represents an integer of 0 or 1, X represents an acid anion and forms an inner salt when m is 0, and n represents an integer of 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaiichiro Sakazume, Noboru Fujimori, Eiichi Sakamoto, Hidehiko Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 4045230
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising at least a support and a red-sensitive, silver halide-containing layer containing at least one sensitizing dye of the following general formula I ##STR1## AND AT LEAST ONE SENSITIZING DYE OF THE FOLLOWING GENERAL FORMULA II ##STR2##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Koitabashi, Hideo Akamatsu, Noboru Fujimori