Patents by Inventor Takuya Yokokawa
Takuya Yokokawa 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).
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Patent number: 6746832Abstract: A color image forming method that includes subjecting a silver halide color photosensitive material to an exposure, and then processing it with a processing solution, wherein at least one silver halide emulsion in the silver halide layers has silver halide grains of AgClBr, AgCeI, or AgClIBr grains, having a AgCl content of 95 mol % or more, and having at least one region where a AgBr and/or AgI content is higher than the other region; the exposure is performed based on digital image data for area modulation; and the processing solution contains at least one compound represented by formula (I) or (II):Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Okazaki, Takuya Yokokawa, Yasufumi Nakai
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Publication number: 20040038157Abstract: A color image forming method that includes subjecting a silver halide color photosensitive material to an exposure, and then processing it with a processing solution, wherein at least one silver halide emulsion in the silver halide layers has silver halide grains of AgClBr, AgCeI, or AgClIBr grains, having a AgCl content of 95 mol % or more, and having at least one region where a AgBr and/or AgI content is higher than the other region; the exposure is performed based on digital image data for area modulation; and the processing solution contains at least one compound represented by formula (I) or (II): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2003Publication date: February 26, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Okazaki, Takuya Yokokawa, Yasufumi Nakai
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Patent number: 6232055Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol% or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which havType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6232050Abstract: Disclosed is a method for forming a color image comprising exposing a color photographic material, wherein the color photographic material comprises a support having provided thereon at least (1) a photosensitive layer capable of forming a yellow image by imagewise exposure and processing, (2) a photosensitive layer capable of forming a magenta image by imagewise exposure and processing, and (3) a photosensitive layer capable of forming a cyan image by imagewise exposure and processing, each of said photosensitive layers is sensitive to the radiant rays in the range of from 380 to 900 nm, each photosensitive layer has different wavelength corresponding to the maximum spectral sensitivity, the maximum spectral sensitivities of photosensitive layers (1) to (3) gradually diminish from the photosensitive layer having the maximum spectral sensitivity at the shortest wavelength to the photosensitive layer having the maximum spectral sensitivity at the longest wavelength, and exposure is performed by using at leastType: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirai, Takuya Yokokawa
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Patent number: 6218095Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which haType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6051359Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-developable light-sensitive material having a support and a light-sensitive layer provided on the support. The heat-developable light-sensitive material contains dyes which are decolorized through reaction with a decolorizing agent during a development process. The dyes are non-diffusible and at least a part of decolorized dyes resulting from the development process is non-diffusible. Also provided is an image forming method using the heat-developable light-sensitive material. The present method provides images having excellent sharpness within a short period of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuhiro Ohkawa, Hiroo Takizawa, Shun-ichi Ishikawa, Takuya Yokokawa
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Patent number: 5917577Abstract: An image exposing device which, on the basis of image data, modulates light beams outputted from three light sources having respectively different wavelengths, and which scans/exposes the light beams onto a photosensitive material. The three light sources includes a first light source having a light-emitting peak wavelength in a vicinity of 635 nm, a second light source having a light-emitting peak wavelength in a range of 670 to 710 nm, and a third light source having a light-emitting peak wavelength in a vicinity of 780 nm. The photosensitive material includes a first photosensitive layer having a peak spectral sensitivity corresponding to the first light source, a second photosensitive layer having a peak spectral sensitivity corresponding to the second light source, and a third photosensitive layer having a peak spectral sensitivity corresponding to the third light source.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1997Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Okino, Toshiro Hayakawa, Takuya Yokokawa
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Patent number: 5879864Abstract: An image forming method comprising the steps of: rotating a drum having wound thereon a heat developable light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a binder and a dye-donating compound; exposing said light-sensitive material with an exposure head comprising a plurality of beam light sources which are arranged at a predetermined interval along a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to a main scanning direction in which the drum is rotated, to correspond to a plurality of exposure points, respectively, and each of which emits light having the same wavelength each other; and moving said exposure head in said sub-scanning direction by 1/N (N is an integer of 2 or more) of the length of the arrangement of said beam light sources, to effect a scanning exposure of said light-sensitive material in steps of a plurality of exposure points.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1997Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takuya Yokokawa
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Patent number: 5716775Abstract: A heat developable color light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion(s), a binder and a dye-donating compound, wherein at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion(s) (a) (a-1) comprises grains containing silver iodide in an amount of 0.1 mol % or more based on silver in the inside of the grains, and (a-2) contains at least one compound represented by formula (I-a), (I-b) or (I-c); or (b) (b-1) comprises silver chloroiodobromide grains containing silver iodide in an amount of 0.1 mol % or more based on silver in the inside of the grains and silver chloride in an amount of 10 mol % or more based on silver, (b-2) contains a sensitizing dye added before chemical sensitization, and (b-3) chemically sensitized in the presence of a nucleic acid decomposition product:Z--SO.sub.2.S--M (I-a)The substituents Z and M in formula (I-a) are disclosed in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Uehara, Takuya Yokokawa
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Patent number: 5610006Abstract: A heat-developable photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a dye-donating compound on a support, in which at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion on the support contains from 1.times.10.sup.-7 to 1.times.10.sup.-3 mol, per mol of silver halide, of iron ions in the silver halide grains. The material shows little sensitivity fluctuation to variations of the temperature of exposure and shows little decrease in sensitivity on exposure with high intensity light for a short period of time, such as laser rays.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1994Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Yokokawa, Tomoyuki Koide
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Patent number: 5336761Abstract: Disclosed is a diffusion transfer color photographic material at least having a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a non-diffusive dye donor compound capable of releasing or forming a diffusive dye in correspondence or reverse correspondence with the reaction of reducing the silver halide to silver, and a non-diffusive filter dye, on a support, in which the filter dye is in the form of an emulsified dispersion along with the dye donor compound. The color separatability of the processed material is good and the discrimination of the formed image is also good. The raw film of the material is free from lowering of the filter effect after storage.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1992Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ozaki, Takuya Yokokawa
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Patent number: 5229246Abstract: A diffusion transfer photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least a photosensitive element comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion and a diffusible dye donating compound, and a dye fixing element which is placed upon the said photosensitive element at the time of image transfer, wherein a natural macromolecular polysaccharide originating from red algae is included in said photosensitive element and/or in said dye fixing element, and a process of producing a diffusion transfer photographic material is disclosed, which comprises the step of using a coating liquid which contains a water soluble polymer solution comprising a natural macromolecular polysaccharide, a hydrophilic organic solvent in which the said water soluble polymer is essentially insoluble and water.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1991Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Takuya Yokokawa