Patents by Inventor Ralph W. Jones, Jr.

Ralph W. Jones, Jr. 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: 6753134
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprised of high bromide cubical silver halide grains is described, the process comprising: (a) providing in a stirred reaction vessel a dispersing medium and high bromide silver halide seed grains, the seed grains comprising at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver, and (b) precipitating a silver halide shell which comprises at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver onto the seed grains by introducing at least a silver salt solution into the dispersing medium at a rate such that the normalized shell molar addition rate, Rs, is above 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dirk J. Hasberg, Rajesh V. Mehta, Ralph W. Jones, Jr
  • Patent number: 6623918
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprised of high bromide tabular silver halide grains is described, the process comprising: (a) providing in a stirred reaction vessel a dispersing medium and high bromide silver halide tabular seed grains, the seed grains comprising at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver, and (b) precipitating a silver halide shell which comprises at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver onto the seed grains by introducing at least a silver salt solution into the dispersing medium at a rate such that the normalized shell molar addition rate, Rs, is above 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dirk J. Hasberg, Ralph W. Jones, Jr., Rajesh V. Mehta
  • Patent number: 5264336
    Abstract: A photographic emulsion is disclosed in which an infrared spectral sensitizing dye is adsorbed to the surface of silver bromide grains optionally containing iodide. The grains are formed in the presence of a hexacoordination complex of iron and at least three cyanide ligands to counteract dye desensitization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Alfred P. Marchetti, Ralph W. Jones, Jr., Myra T. Olm
  • Patent number: 5024931
    Abstract: A photographic silver halide emulsion is disclosed in which the face centered cubic crystal lattice structure of the grains contain at adjacent cation sites metal ions chosen from group VIII, periods 5 and 6. The metal ions are placed at adjacent cation lattice sites by sensitizing the grains with oligomers each containing at least two of the group VIII metal ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Francis J. Evans, Ralph W. Jones, Jr., Robert D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4933269
    Abstract: A infrared absorbing filter dye that also imparts a cool image tone after processing is disclosed for use in photographic elements. The dye has the formula: ##STR1## where Z and Z' each independently represents the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted: thiazole nucleus, selenazole nucleus, indole nucleus, imidazole nucleus, or quinoline nucleus,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl,Z" represents the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring,Q represents the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted carbocyclic ring,m and n each independently represents 0 or 1, andX represents a counterion as needed to balance the charge of the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Parton, David A. Stegman, Ralph W. Jones, Jr.